Philip M. Sprinkle, II

Board Certified in Health Law by The Florida Bar and licensed in Georgia, Florida and Virginia, Philip Sprinkle has, for 37 years, represented privately-held companies with an emphasis on physician groups, academic medical centers, and affiliated providers, in M&A, board governance, joint ventures, and reimbursement matters at both the state and federal level. In addition, Philip has extensive experience with exempt organizations and related tax issues, having provided advice to clients on private benefit and inurement, excess benefit transactions, unrelated business income taxation, joint ventures, conflicts of interest, and complex governance issues. Having served as outside general counsel for a number of hospitals and healthcare systems, Philip’s experience has, by necessity, spanned all hospital operational issues from patient care to emergency call to peer review to third party payor agreements.

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Self-Disclosure Decoded: DOJ’s New Corporate Enforcement Policy Creates a Uniform National Framework to Incentivize Voluntary Self-Disclosure of Corporate Misconduct

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released its first-ever Department-wide Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy (CEP) for criminal matters. The new CEP creates a uniform national policy for how the DOJ rewards companies that voluntarily self-report criminal conduct. Building on the 2025 CEP of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, the new CEP supersedes all … Continue Reading

Hospitals Take Heed: Gradual Evolution of the IRS’ Position on Tax Exemption

By Philip M. Sprinkle, II on October 4, 2017 Posted in Healthcare Law, Hospitals & Health Systems

There has been much fanfare, but little discussion, among healthcare experts in the United States regarding the Internal Revenue Service recently published PLR 201731014 (the Letter Ruling). The Letter Ruling provides a good opportunity to review where we have come and where we are going in the tax-exempt hospital industry in America. Let’s focus first … Continue Reading