- FraudThe firm’s Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Task Force is made up of more than 50 attorneys from across the firm. Over the past decade, members have represented healthcare providers in virtually every state and litigated and/or resolved False Claims Act allegations in jurisdictions located in more than 25 states around the country. They have obtained groundbreaking legal rulings in key decisions by the U.S. Courts of Appeal in the Fourth, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits, and numerous district courts throughout the country. Clients have included hospitals and health systems, physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, post-acute providers, Medicare Advantage companies, pharmaceutical and device companies, and other healthcare providers and life sciences companies. Read more here.
- Corporate LawOur corporate and securities practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, corporate governance and shareholder activism.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Business Disputes
- Construction Contracts
- Intellectual Property
- Antitrust
- Employment ContractMany platform transactions are structured with multiple physician practices that have different owners. This may be desired for business reasons, but having identical or at least 80% common ownership across all practices in your platform may allow the practices to utilize one set of benefit plans, which would result in significant cost savings and simplify the administration of the benefit plans, particularly with regard to health insurance benefits. In addition, some MSOs erroneously employ all employees, including physicians, at the parent company MSO level and issue W-2s from that entity, notwithstanding that the physicians have employment agreements with the physician practices. Doing so can present regulatory issues under the federal Stark Law and state laws that prohibit the corporate practice of medicine, among others, and could result in unintended noncompliance issues for the MSO benefit plans if these physicians are also permitted to participate in the MSO benefit plans.
- Construction Litigation
- Real Estate Transactions
- Estate Planning
- Trusts
- Bankruptcy
- Tax Law