William provides counsel on a wide range of healthcare transactions, federal healthcare program requirements, physician contracts, health care marketing (both direct-to-consumer and co-marketing arrangements), Medicare Part B audits, and MSOs and managed services arrangements. He has designed, implemented, and managed small and large-scale ethics and compliance programs, and has successfully counseled clients through government and commercial payer audits, OIG self-disclosures, and various administrative, fraud enforcement and government healthcare program integrity actions.

Prior to joining Pierson Ferdinand, William worked in the health law practice groups of renowned (AM100 & AM200) US Law firms. He is the former vice president of legal and compliance for one of Florida’s largest value-based care platforms and is the former chief compliance officer for one of Palm Beach County’s premier regional medical centers, and spent four years as a hospital compliance and privacy officer with one of the country's largest publicly traded hospital systems where he managed the compliance programs for multiple South Florida hospitals and affiliated outpatient care and diagnostic centers.

In addition to compliance, William’s legal background includes globally recognized academic research institutions and medical centers, having served as in-house corporate compliance counsel with the Cleveland Clinic Florida, and as a law clerk with the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine’s Office of General Counsel.