Shannon Sumner

Consulting Principal, Firm Chief Compliance Officer, and Office Managing Principal, Nashville

Shannon manages PYA’s Compliance Advisory Services and serves as the Firm’s Compliance Officer. A CPA certified in healthcare compliance, she has more than two decades’ experience in healthcare internal auditing and compliance programs. She advises large health systems and legal counsel in strengthening their compliance programs, and aids in areas of Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law compliance. Shannon also assists health systems regarding compliance with Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIAs) and Non-Prosecution Agreements (NPAs), conducts health system merger/acquisition/divestiture due diligence activities, and advises health system governing boards on their roles and responsibilities for effective compliance oversight.

At the direction of the Department of Justice, Shannon has served as the healthcare compliance and internal audit subject-matter expert for the largest federal compliance co-monitorship of a health system in U.S. history.

Shannon is a member of the Nashville Health Care Council, Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Society of Compliance and Ethics Professionals, and the American Health Law Association. She is a faculty member of the Health Care Compliance Association and is a board member of the Maryland Farms YMCA, and is Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), HCCA. Shannon earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Cum Laude, and a Master of Accountancy from the University of Tennessee.