Scott Provencher

Scott Provencher is a healthcare lawyer with Wright Lindsey Jennings who assists clients in matters related to compliance with HIPAA and HITECH, the Physician Self-Referral (Stark) Law, Anti-Kickback and EKRA Statutes, and EMTALA.  He represents clients concerning provider contracts, proceedings before state licensing boards, and issues related to credentialing and peer review.  Scott is also a trial lawyer with extensive experience representing hospitals, psychiatric and behavioral health facilities, pharmacies and pharmacists, physician groups and physicians, and post-acute care facilities in civil litigation.  He also defends products-liability and mass-tort claims in state and federal courts and multidistrict litigation.   Scott is a member of the American Health Law Association, International Association of Defense Counsel, American Board of Trial Advocates, and Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel, among other groups.

Scott graduated from Sylvan Hills High School in Sherwood in 1989.  He attended the University of Arkansas and graduated in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in economics.  He then attended the University of Arkansas School of Law where he served as a Note and Comment Editor on the Law Review and secretary of the Student Bar Association.  He graduated with high honors in 1996.   Before entering private practice, Scott served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert L. Brown, Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, from 1996 to 1998.  Scott is married to Leslie Jewell Provencher (Mount St. Mary’s, 1985; University of Arkansas, 1989).  The couple has two sons, William Provencher (Catholic High, 2020; University of Arkansas, 2024); and Nathan Provencher (Catholic High, 2022; current senior at the University of Arkansas).  They attend Christ the King Catholic Church in Little Rock.