Experience
Hospital Operations Counsel
- 40 hospitals in 20 states
- Acute care hospitals
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Physician-owned hospitals
- Long-term acute care hospitals
- Ambulatory surgery centers
- Provider-based campuses
- Excluded rehabilitation departments
- Medical staff by-laws maintenance
- Medical staff fair hearings
- Governing board by-laws maintenance
- Policy and procedure development
Managed Care
- Bundled payment care improvement initiative
- Individual hospital negotiations
- Utilization review programs
- Anti-trust evaluations
- Provider network contracting and regulation
- Third party administration
- Capitation agreements
Physician Contracting
- Employment agreements
- On-call agreements
- Medical directorships
- Co-management arrangements
- Group practice consolidation
- Hospitalist program design and implementation
- ED coverage program design and implementation
- Quality based compensation arrangements
- Non-CPT compensation arrangements
Durable Medical Equipment
- In-hospital DME provisions by third-party vendors
- Mail order DME and prescription drugs
Regulatory Compliance
- Medicare enrollment
- Medicaid enrollment
- NPI number maintenance
- HIPAA privacy rules
- EMTALA
- Stark/anti-kickback
- RAC audit
- False Claims Act
- Sunshine Act
Non-Acute Healthcare
- Valuations
- Hospice
- Home health
- Independent diagnostic testing facilities
- Pharmacy
- Physical therapy
- Physician billing
- Group purchasing
- Radiosurgery
- Individual practitioners
Corporate
- Hospital-physician joint ventures
- Physician practice acquisitions
- Private placements
- Hospital acquisitions
- Inter-company arrangements
- Unwinds
- Asset purchase agreements
- Hospital management agreements
Business Litigation Experience
- False Claims Act/Anti-Kickback claim subpoena response
- False Claims Act defense, including extensive acquisition contract analysis, witness fact-finding interviews, and legal research
- Covenants not to compete
- Environmental regulation, including CERCLA and Clean Water Act matters
- Creditor’s rights matters, including Sixth Circuit appeal of summary judgment in fraudulent transfer case
- Preliminary injunction hearings and briefing to halt bank merger strike suit and hostile shareholder buyout
- Lender liability
- Debt collection offense and defense
- Mortgage-backed securities litigation
- Internet defamation
- AAA Arbitration