Health Care

Representative Experience

• Corporate transactions and joint ventures, including advice regarding potential tax, fraud and abuse, licensure, antitrust, and governmental intervention and/or involvement; and structuring transactions to address such issues as:
  • ​advising clients in strategic planning and new project feasibility
  • preparation of all related documents and addressing post-closing matter
  • ongoing representation of entities, including assisting in enrollment in governmental programs and with private payors
• Review and counseling regarding existing and new financial and contractual relationships in light of the continually evolving health care laws and regulations.
• Counsel regarding fraud and abuse laws and regulations, such as Stark, anti-kickback, civil monetary penalties, in both contractual and joint venture relationships, and assisting in structuring such relationships in order to address and manage related risks
• Counsel regarding compliance issues and assisting on internal investigations including whistleblower matters
• Governmental program reimbursement issues and in addressing other payor issues
• Various risk management matters including patient issues
• Litigation matters in court and in alternative dispute resolution
• Peer review and medical staff matters
• Privacy issues, including compliance with HIPAA and various state privacy laws and addressing breach issues
• EMTALA and other ER requirements
• Tax-exempt issues
• Coordinating work with consultants, accountants and local counsel
• Various divestiture matters
• Experience with federal and state governmental agencies
• Counsel on existing and pending federal and state legislation and regulations and their impact on the client and its operations and, when appropriate, assisting in lobbying efforts to impact legislation and regulations
• Counsel on employment and employee benefit matters
• Health care financing