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Health Care

Health Care

The experience and savvy of our Health Care group is invaluable to clients in this rapidly changing industry. Regularly publishing and lecturing at health law conferences, our attorneys are not only on top of all the statutes and regulations—they even help create them. As a result, we’re uniquely positioned to meet your needs, from industry-specific issues to general business, and matters from the routine to the most sophisticated. Our expertise includes:

  • Administrative law
  • Affiliations, acquisitions, mergers, and joint ventures
  • Antitrust law
  • Benefits law
  • Facility and provider licensing
  • Federal and state fraud and abuse law
  • Government investigations
  • Health care financing
  • Health information, privacy, and HIPAA
  • Litigation
  • Medical staff issues
  • Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rules
  • Patient rights, including vulnerable adult and child protection law
  • Provider, vendor, and managed care contracting
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Routine business matters, including employment and real estate law
  • Stark I and II
  • Tax and tax exemption law

Our health care clients include:

  • Academic medical centers
  • Faculty practice plans
  • Foundations
  • Home health agencies
  • Hospital systems and integrated delivery systems
  • Hospitals: public, private, general, and specialty
  • Large and small physician groups
  • Long term care providers
  • Managed care organizations
  • Therapy providers

 

Representative Matters

  • Represented a hospital and multiple physician practices in formation of joint venture LLC to own and operate ambulatory surgery center
  • Represented a physician group in the formation of joint venture LLC with for-profit management company and tax-exempt hospital to own and operate ambulatory surgery center
  • Represented a tax-exempt physician group in formation and operation of joint venture provider LLC with for-profit physician practice
  • Represented physician group, assisting with the formation of two LLCs, one to operate an ambulatory surgery center, the other to own the property on which the surgery center was located
  • Represented LLC in successfully defending an IRS claim for more than $3 million in self-employment tax from the LLC members
  • Represented academic medical center’s faculty practice plan in joint venture with hospital system for creation of radiation therapy LLC
  • Multiple representations of LLC as healthcare joint venture vehicles including equipment joint ventures, provider ventures, and many others
  • Represented medical groups in the negotiation and implementation of health care information technology including addressing specifications for EHRs and digital imaging
  • Negotiated a complex software licensing agreement on behalf of a major university physicians group, including ancillary agreements, for a large EHR software development involving electronic wireless devices for physicians, including counsel regarding regulatory compliance issues, including privacy and state medical record laws
  • Represented physician group in negotiation of Epic use and license agreement with hospital system
  • Represented hospital system in negotiation of EHR software license and customer use agreement
  • Represent a high-tech manufacturer in development of generic software license for laser products and customized licenses for major medical device companies. We work with the same client on agreements with third parties for custom software programming, application design and development services, and in connection with support and maintenance service agreements
  • Represented a medical information service provider in connection with the negotiation and drafting of a software development agreement involving customization of the client’s proprietary software technology for the development of a secure and accountable message delivery system having multiple industry applications
  • Negotiated agreement for provision of electronic radiology system on behalf of medical group including specifications for image resolution and remote access