As a leading practitioner in the corporate, healthcare and regulatory fields, I represent health industry clients on various transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, as well as regulatory matters, compliance advice and training, negotiation with third party payors, licensing matters, third-party payor, including Medicare/Medicaid, audits, disputes and recoupments, appeals, reimbursement matters, business negotiations, employment matters, partnership disputes and litigation, vendor disputes and litigation, employer-employee disputes and litigation and other commercial litigation, commercial real estate matters, governmental investigations, including Medicare and Medicare fraud, OIG investigations and self-disclosure matters, securities matters, such as private offerings, joint ventures, and general contracting issues.My clients include physicians, dentists, chiropractors, veterinarians, physical therapists and other individual providers, healthcare organizations (e.g., practices, including large integrated group practices, veterinary hospitals, Preferred Provider Organizations, Accountable Care Organizations, Organized Delivery Systems, ambulatory care facilities, urgent care centers, radiology centers, ambulatory surgical centers, surgical practices, laboratories, DME providers, sleep centers and diagnostic testing centers), management companies, development companies, landlord entities, billing companies, information technology firms, referral services, non-profit organizations.
I also counsel my clients on a wide variety of regulatory matters, including navigating the changes brought about by health care reform efforts, fraud and abuse compliance, corporate practice of the profession compliance, HIPAA and state health information privacy laws, Stark/Anti-kickback Law compliance, ACO formation and compliance, bundled reimbursement healthcare models, managed care contracting, employment contracts, among other various matters.I take a creative approach to representing clients in various business transaction, and provide strategic advice on governmental and non-governmental investigations and actions.
