General Business Counsel

We serve as general counsel to various health care clients ranging from small physician groups to larger, multi-state nonprofit health care providers. Our experience in the industry – as lawyers and health care executives – provides clients with the depth of insight necessary to effectively address any operational issues a health care organization may encounter on a day-to-day basis.

We develop and implement policies and procedures and advise health care providers on business issues regarding:

Vendor agreements
Business associate agreements
Records release and retention
Consent to treatment, including advanced directives and powers of attorney
Patient confidentiality and health information/medical records release
Patient rights, including guardianship and involuntary commitment
Relationships with physicians and other health care providers
Corporate Compliance
Risk management
Self-insurance

Our key areas of business counsel include:

Mergers & Acquisitions / Business Transactions: Through work inside health care organizations and as outside counsel, we are go-to advisors for our health care clients, providing them with comprehensive, practical advice regarding forming health care entities and systems; developing and implementing contractual arrangements, including management and affiliation arrangements; transacting mergers and acquisitions; and restructuring or unwinding health care entities and systems.
Managed Care: Hospitals, physicians, HMOs, PHOs, PPOs, and community health payors rely on us for assistance with managed care contracting and state and other regulatory compliance issues, including Medicaid and Medicare Part C and D agreements. We draft, negotiate, and review traditional and risk-based managed care agreements for hospitals and physicians and develop arrangements to directly provide health care services to beneficiaries of self-funded plans. We also have considerable experience resolving contractual and payment disputes with payors.
Tax & Tax-Exempt Issues: We have extensive experience handling tax matters for health care organizations and related charitable and other tax-exempt organizations. We can assist clients with obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status, while addressing issues such as compliance with state nonprofit laws, intermediate sanctions, physician recruitment and practice support, private benefit and inurement, reorganizations, tax-exempt financing, unrelated business tax issues, charity care, and executive compensation.

We serve as general counsel to various health care clients ranging from small physician groups to larger, multi-state nonprofit health care providers. Our experience in the industry – as lawyers and health care executives – provides clients with the depth of insight necessary to effectively address any operational issues a health care organization may encounter on a day-to-day basis.

We develop and implement policies and procedures and advise health care providers on business issues regarding:

Vendor agreements
Business associate agreements
Records release and retention
Consent to treatment, including advanced directives and powers of attorney
Patient confidentiality and health information/medical records release
Patient rights, including guardianship and involuntary commitment
Relationships with physicians and other health care providers
Corporate Compliance
Risk management
Self-insurance

Our key areas of business counsel include:

Mergers & Acquisitions / Business Transactions: Through work inside health care organizations and as outside counsel, we are go-to advisors for our health care clients, providing them with comprehensive, practical advice regarding forming health care entities and systems; developing and implementing contractual arrangements, including management and affiliation arrangements; transacting mergers and acquisitions; and restructuring or unwinding health care entities and systems.
Managed Care: Hospitals, physicians, HMOs, PHOs, PPOs, and community health payors rely on us for assistance with managed care contracting and state and other regulatory compliance issues, including Medicaid and Medicare Part C and D agreements. We draft, negotiate, and review traditional and risk-based managed care agreements for hospitals and physicians and develop arrangements to directly provide health care services to beneficiaries of self-funded plans. We also have considerable experience resolving contractual and payment disputes with payors.
Tax & Tax-Exempt Issues: We have extensive experience handling tax matters for health care organizations and related charitable and other tax-exempt organizations. We can assist clients with obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status, while addressing issues such as compliance with state nonprofit laws, intermediate sanctions, physician recruitment and practice support, private benefit and inurement, reorganizations, tax-exempt financing, unrelated business tax issues, charity care, and executive compensation.