Richard B. Howington is a partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP who practices in Winston-Salem in the areas of corporate and healthcare law. A member of the North Carolina State Bar, Mr. Howington represents health systems, hospitals, physicians, and other parties in a wide range of business transactions. His practice focuses on healthcare mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures between healthcare entities, joint ventures between taxable and tax-exempt entities, the development of integrated delivery systems, physician recruitment, advising clients on the Medicare/Medicaid anti-kickback law, the Stark law and regulations, and related state self-referral laws, and physician-hospital disputes. He has extensive experience in the organization of physician group practices and the structuring of joint ventures by physicians and hospitals.

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2003-2012 editions) for healthcare law, Mr. Howington is co-author of a chapter on physician group practices in Health Care Corporate Law: Facilities and Transactions, published by Aspen Publishers. Mr. Howington has spoken at seminars on matters related to Integrated Delivery Systems, COBRA and ERISA.

Mr. Howington is a member of the American Bar Association, the Forsyth County Bar Association, and the North Carolina Bar Association (Health Law Section Council). He serves on the board of directors of the Children's Center for the Physically Handicapped.

In 1969, Mr. Howington earned a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Wake Forest University School of Law where he served on the Wake Forest Law Review. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Wake Forest University in 1966.