Chris Puri focuses his practice in the areas of senior housing and long term care and health care operations and compliance.  Chris's industry experience and depth of knowledge in long term care allows him to provide clients with a comprehensive, full-service practice capable of handling the full array of legal issues for those providers.

Prior to joining Boult Cummings, Chris served for seven years as legal counsel for the Tennessee Health Care Association (THCA), the state trade association representing approximately ninety percent of Tennessee nursing homes. During his tenure with THCA, Chris provided counsel to the Association and its members in the areas of  survey/certification and licensure, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and compliance, expansion and development of community-based services, risk management and tort litigation, as well as other general areas of health care and long term care law. In addition to his extensive regulatory counseling, Chris represented the Association in its regulatory efforts before state regulatory bodies and has drafted and lobbied for many of Tennessee's long term care laws.

Chris is a recognized national leader in the long term care area, playing a role in developing long term care policy at both the state and national levels. He currently serves as a member of the American Health Care Association's Legal Subcommittee, and participates in both its Medicaid Reform and Survey Reform Task Forces.  He also is a Planning Committee member for the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) Long Term Care and the Law program and is past-Chair of its Long Term Care Practice Group. Chris is a regular speaker and author for national and state audiences, including AHLA, the Tennessee Bar Association, and the American and Tennessee Health Care Associations.  He is a graduate of the Tennessee Bar LawLeaders Program in 2006.  Recently, he was selected to the editorial board of Eli Research's Long Term Care Survey Alert . Chris belongs to the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations, and is admitted in Tennessee and in the U.S. District Court (WD. and M.D. Tn).

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10/16/2008 - 10/17/2008	20th Annual Health Law Forum
08/24/2008 - 08/27/2008	Tennessee Health Care Association 2008 Convention and Trade Show
06/29/2008 - 06/30/2008	AHLA Annual Meeting
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