Bryan J. Davis

Bryan Davis is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He relocated to New Mexico in 1996 and earned his B.A. in History, summa cum laude, and J.D., cum laude, from the University of New Mexico. Bryan has achieved the highest rating for ethical and legal abilities, AV, by Martindale-Hubbell, based on peer, judge, and client reviews. He is also a Southwest Super Lawyer Rising Star in Healthcare law. Bryan dedicates most of his time to handling healthcare matters involving Medicare/Medicaid fraud, physician employment and peer review disputes, and False Claims Act whistleblowers. Bryan has defended healthcare providers across a broad range of service lines in numerous Medicare/Medicaid fraud investigations by state and federal regulators as well as defended providers in health plan overpayment audits. Bryan also represents physicians and whistleblowers in disputes with hospitals and other healthcare facilities. He approaches these matters from a background of having representing numerous hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, health plans, payors, and Medicare/Medicaid providers in complex fraud, RICO, antitrust, False Claims Act, New Mexico Medicaid Fraud Act, ERISA, negligent credentialing, and unfair trade practice cases for over a decade. Bryan focuses much of his practice on investigating and prosecuting qui tam and retaliation cases for whistleblowers who expose fraud on the government in the healthcare and government contractor arenas under the federal False Claims Act, New Mexico Fraud Against Taxpayers Act, and New Mexico Whistleblower Protection Act. In January 2013, Bryan was co-counsel for a plaintiff in the first trial under the New Mexico Whistleblower Protection Act, in which they obtained a verdict in excess of $710,000 against the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission: http://www.sfnewmexican.com/Local%20News/011913whistleblower3#.UdSdv9g8rFw In October 2013, Bryan was lead trial counsel in a complex civil rights claim for an OB/GYN whose privileges were suspended at Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, New Mexico. The jury awarded Bryan's client $1,861,644 for lost income, damage to his reputation, and emotional distress: http://www.scsun-news.com/silver_city-news/ci_24470741 Other practice highlights in the healthcare arena include obtaining dismissal of a putative $82 million antitrust claim brought by a physician against a hospital for malicious peer review, obtaining summary judgment for a hospital against Unfair Practices Act, fraud, and breach of contract claims challenging the manner in which a hospital set charges for emergency department services rendered to the uninsured, and obtaining dismissal of a putative $17,000,000 Medicaid Fraud Act claim brought by the New Mexico Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Unit against a provider of in-home assisted care services to Medicaid beneficiaries, which was affirmed on appeal to the New Mexico Court of Appeals. Prior to founding Davis & Gilchrist in 2009, Bryan practiced with Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin, & Robb, P.A. and Bannerman & Williams, P.A., in Albuquerque, and Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. While in law school, Bryan served as Editor-in-Chief of the New Mexico Law Review, and interned with the Honorable John E. Conway, then Chief Judge for the United States District Court, District of New Mexico. Bryan is married with three children. In his spare time he is a member of the Board of Directors for Rio Rapids Soccer Club, helps coach and manage his sons' soccer teams, travels (usually in search of a good professional soccer match), and is the singer/guitarist for Albuquerque's underground lawyer alt-garage-emo-rock band Stereogeist. They are huge in Japan! Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Bryan J. Davis included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Southwest Super Lawyer Rising Star, 2012 - 2013 Other Sources of Feedback About Bryan J. Davis Included on the 2026Southwest Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2024 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2023 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2022 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2021 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2020 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2019 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2018 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2017 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2014 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2013 Southwest Super Lawyers list 2012 Southwest Rising Stars — Super Lawyers list

• Attorney

• Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin, & Robb, P.A, Albuquerque
• Bannerman & Williams, P.A, Albuquerque
• Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, Georgia

• Georgia, 2002
• New Mexico, 2004
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 2002
• U.S. District Court District of New Mexico, 2004
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 2006