Our Clients
Our attorneys have extensive experience handling corporate, regulatory, and compliance issues for a wide spectrum of health and human services providers. Our diverse list of clients includes:
- Adult daycare providers
- Ambulatory surgery centers
- Assisted living residences (ALRs)
- Behavioral health providers
- Behavioral health care collaboratives (BHCCs)
- Care coordination organizations (CCOs)
- Clinical laboratories
- Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs)
- Developmental disability providers
- Health homes
- Health information exchanges (HIEs)
- Home care agencies
- Hospice
- Hospitals and health systems
- Independent practice associations (IPAs)
- Medical transportation companies
- Mental health providers
- Performing provider systems (PPSs)
- Pharmacies
- Physicians, dentists and group practices
- Senior independent living facilities
- Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs)
- Substance use disorder (SUD) providers
COVID-19: Business Reopenings
The eagerly anticipated full reopening of health care facilities and agencies as well as medical and dental offices poses challenges and pitfalls for health care providers. Our experienced attorneys are available to assist you with coordinating your planned reopening, complying with safety measures, answering patient messaging and treatment questions, staying up to date on legislation affecting your financial health, and effectively handling workforce issues.
As providers move forward with their plans to resume operations, some of the most pressing topics include:
- Recognizing that emergency rules and agency guidance are expiring or evolving and adjusting practices accordingly
- Understanding mandatory requirements for reopening and recommended best practices
- Determining what safety measures must be in place in your facility
- Creating a return-to-work plan for employees and addressing employee concerns regarding COVID-19 exposure
- Educating patients on office safety practices and obtaining appropriate consents
- Modifying the use of telehealth in light of possible changes in reimbursement
- Understanding and anticipating the liability risks unique to the post-COVID-19 environment
Our Services
We deliver value to our health care and human service clients by providing counsel in the following service areas:
- Acquisitions, sales, mergers, affiliations, and joint ventures
- Board, management, and staff trainings
- Certificate of need (CON) applications
- Corporate compliance, internal investigations, and self-disclosures
- Corporate formation and reorganization
- Corporate governance
- Contract review and negotiation, including software and third-party vendor contracts
- Cybersecurity and data privacy
- Data breach response and reporting
- Employment and independent contractor agreements and medical staff issues
- EMTALA and anti-dumping provisions
- Financing and restructuring
- Fraud and abuse issues, including Stark, Anti-Kickback, Civil Monetary Penalties, Fee-Splitting
- Government surveys and enforcement
- Group practice establishment and disputes
- HIPAA and health information privacy
- Independent practice association formation and operation
- Justice Center matters and incident reporting
- Managed care contracting and value-based payment
- Medicare and Medicaid certification and compliance
- Governmental and private payor audits and investigations (OMIG, MFCU, OSC, OPWDD, SED, OIG, HHS-OCR, Attorney General)
- Payor contract review, negotiation, non-renewal, and termination
- Professional licensure and discipline before the Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) and Office of Professional Discipline (OPD)
- Reimbursement issues and rate challenges
- Risk management, patient care, and familial disputes
- Subpoena responses and production of medical records
- Surrogate decision-making
- Tax exemption and tax planning
- Telehealth