Health Care Law

Formation of professional corporations, limited liability companies, non-profit corporations, general and limited partnerships, and other entities

Development of bylaws, operating agreements, and shareholder agreements

Preparation, review, and negotiation of employment, leased employee, and independent contractor agreements

Review and negotiation of hospital agreements, including recruitment agreements and service agreements

Preparation, review and negotiation of buy-in documents

Structuring and negotiation of practice acquisitions and sales

Review and negotiation of payor agreements

Practice reorganizations and dissolutions

Facility development, including ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, and other specialized facilities

Acquisition and sale of medical and dental practices, nursing homes, hospitals, and other facilities

Joint ventures, including physician/hospital joint ventures and joint ventures among hospitals

Financing transactions

Corporate governance and board oversight and roles and responsibilities

Managed care negotiations, including value based reimbursement agreements, such as pay-for-performance and AQC

Provider credentialing and contracting

Medical staff affairs

Patient care matters

License and distribution agreements for Electronic Health Record systems

Acquisitions, sales, mergers, and dissolutions of health care enterprises

Technology relationships

Pharmaceutical company relationships

Licensure and accreditation

Certificate of Need

Anti-kickback and Stark law compliance

Tax-exemption and public charity matters

HIPAA and other confidentiality issues

Represented a large multi-specialty medical practice in connection with the sale of the assets of the practice to a hospital. The representation included negotiating the business terms of the acquisition, due diligence, the separation of several of the shareholders from the practice prior to the acquisition, the drafting and negotiating of the purchase and separation documents and leases for the real estate leased by the practice, and closing the acquisition. After closing the acquisition, we also represented several of the physician owned entities in the sale of real estate leased by the practice to the hospital.

Represented a dental practice startup in the acquisition of the assets of a dental practice including negotiating the business terms of the acquisition and employment of the selling owner, due diligence and the drafting and negotiating of the purchase documents, employment agreement and commercial lease.

Represented a plastic surgery practice in connection with the separation of one of its surgeons from the practice.

Negotiated, on behalf of a specialty medical practice, the business terms of its office relocation and drafted the agreements between the new tenant hospital and the landlord.

Represented a surgical practice in negotiating a build to suit lease of approximately 17,000 sf of space.

Counsel to a large multi-specialty medical practice in its acquisition of a primary care practice from a hospital system.

Represented multiple medical practices in negotiation of office leases, including build-outs.

Represented a hospital system in its acquisition of a significant primary care practice and associated real estate.

Secured 501(c)(3) status for a professional medical society.

Represented several physicians and dentists finishing their residencies and fellowships in the review and negotiation of employment agreements.

Advised a covered entity that experienced a HIPAA breach affecting more than 500 patients, as well as advising another entity that experienced a HIPAA breach resulting from one employee “snooping” on the medical records of another employee.

Serve as general corporate counsel to more than 100 medical and dental practices.