Brian Taylor

Brian M. Taylor is the founder of Taylor Health Law, bringing more than two decades of elite healthcare law experience to providers who deserve top-tier legal talent without the big-firm price tag. 

Brian built his healthcare practice at some of the most respected law firms in the country. Brian is former Partner at DLA Piper LLP, one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the world and a perennial member of the Am Law 100. At DLA Piper, Brian handled complex healthcare litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters, working alongside nationally recognized attorneys and serving sophisticated institutional clients. That experience gave Brian a command of the high-stakes, high-complexity work that typically only the largest organizations can access.

Before DLA Piper, Brian spent eight years at McDonough Holland & Allen PC, rising from Associate to Shareholder in the firm's Healthcare Practice Group, where he first developed his deep expertise in managed care disputes, payor-provider conflicts, and healthcare regulatory compliance. 

Following his tenure at DLA Piper, Brian joined Boutin Jones Inc., Sacramento's premier business law firm, where he served as a Shareholder and Chair of the Healthcare Practice Group for over a decade. At Boutin Jones, Brian led a team of healthcare attorneys and demonstrated what is now the core philosophy of Taylor Health Law: that clients are best served when big-law caliber legal talent is delivered with the responsiveness, personal attention, and cost-efficiency of a focused practice. 

Brian's practice is devoted to advising hospitals, health systems, medical foundations, IPAs, physicians, dentists, and healthcare suppliers on a broad range of complex business, regulatory, and litigation matters. He has worked extensively with hospital executives and in-house counsel for both community hospitals and large health systems on litigation strategy, managed care contracting, and regulatory compliance. 

Brian has particular depth in complex contractual disputes between healthcare providers and health plans. He has been repeatedly recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer — a distinction awarded to no more than five percent of attorneys in the state — reflecting peer recognition of his outstanding work in healthcare law. His experience spans the full spectrum of payor-provider issues, including disputes involving ERISA plans, out-of-state payors, leased network PPOs, reasonableness of charges, coding for services, fee-for-service contract terms, capitated reimbursement, risk arrangements, hospital liens, uninsured and indigent patient policies, and unfair competition. 

Brian's career includes a track record of significant representations, including:

· Representing a healthcare system in a $50 million dispute regarding hundreds of thousands of underpaid physician and hospital claims, involving issues of stop-loss calculations, delegation of risk, coordination of benefits, ERISA plans, Medicare claims, and timely filing. 

· Defending a healthcare system against $15 million in alleged overpaid claims. 

· Representing hospitals in high-stakes arbitrations challenging charging practices and charge structures. 

· Defending hospitals and physicians in multimillion-dollar cases regarding coding of services, including application of Medicare Guidelines, the National Correct Coding Initiative, and the Outpatient Code Editor. 

· Representing a hospital system in complex ERISA plan litigation involving a failed TPA in receivership. 

· Advising hospitals and health systems on Stark Law and Anti-Kickback compliance in managed care settings. 

· Defending an ambulatory surgery center in a federal False Claims Act case regarding Medicare compliance. 

· Defending a healthcare supplier in a federal False Claims Act case involving anti-kickback allegations and claims of forged signatures on orders. 

· Representing providers in disputes with health plans over payment for services following the bankruptcy of intermediary risk-bearing organizations. 

· Successfully handling an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, obtaining a published reversal on personal jurisdiction grounds. 

Brian is a past President of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys (CSHA), the state's leading organization for lawyers practicing in the healthcare space. He also chaired CSHA's inaugural Diversity Committee and served on the organization's Education Committee. He previously served as Chair of the Sacramento County Bar Association's Health Law Section from 2009 to 2013. 

Brian serves on the Board of the Sutter Medical Center Foundation and previously served as Board Chair, supporting fundraising and community engagement for Sutter's flagship hospital in downtown Sacramento. 

Healthcare providers face increasingly complex legal challenges, and they deserve an attorney who has handled those challenges at the highest levels. Brian has done the work at a global Am Law 100 firm. He has led a healthcare practice group at one of Sacramento's most established business law firms. Now, at Taylor Health Law, he offers that same level of skill and experience directly to clients — with greater accessibility, more personal attention, and a cost structure that reflects the value-driven service model that healthcare providers need. 

Brian earned his Juris Doctor with Distinction from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he was named to the Dean's Honor Roll all three years, served on the Mock Trial Team, and was inducted into the Order of the Barristers. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from Brigham Young University. 

· State Bar of California 

· United States District Court, Eastern District of California 

· Northern California Super Lawyer (multiple years, 2009–2025) 

· Sacramento Business Journal Best of the Bar, 2017–2018