Areas of Practice

Integrated Practice Models (MD/DC relationships)

Many of our chiropractor clients are interested in expanding their scope of services to better serve their patients. One such way is to integrate their practice with a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy. While these arrangements offer great benefits to patients and help providers achieve business objectives, they are typically often strictly scrutinized by state and federal regulators. Clients regularly come to us to assist them in properly structuring these integrated practice models. We provide a comprehensive program to help start-up ventures achieve these objectives. Learn more about Integrated Practice Models –>

Mergers and Acquisitions of Health Care Entities

Healthcare is a dynamic industry experiencing constant and rapid change. Many healthcare providers and other types of healthcare organizations are considering merging together or acquiring clinics and companies to better compete in the challenging healthcare marketplace. We are often called upon to assist clients seeking to sell or acquire a health care business. We stand with our clients from start to finish in the merger/acquisition process, providing document preparation, due diligence, negotiation and advice, and counsel. We work with physician practices, durable medical equipment companies, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, clinical laboratories and specialty hospitals.

Compliance Plans

We are often asked by clients to review and develop compliance plans to educate clients and promote adherence with the multitude of regulatory requirements affecting hospitals, surgery centers and physician practices including the fraud and abuse laws, Stark and other physician self-referral laws, the and Federal Anti-Kickback laws, the state and Federal False Claims Act and the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) Compliance Program Guidelines. We provide our clients with a comprehensive review of an organization’s operation analyze the strengths and weakness of the program and offer corrective action items to improve the compliance program.

General Counsel Program

Imagine having your own attorney who you can call without the fear of a surprise bill for just a couple of quick consultations. Imagine having access to your attorney at rates that can be is much at 50% off the rates of other attorneys. For businesses that use our services regularly, we encourage you to take part in our general counsel program.
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Physician Contracting

We help clients with writing and negotiating various contractual arrangements for health care providers including, employment and independent contractor agreements, managed care agreements, physician recruitment agreements, as well as agreements for ambulatory surgical centers, diagnostic imaging centers and clinical laboratories. Our work also includes the preparation and negotiation of non-competition and other restrictive covenants. Importantly, almost all financial relationships must be compliant with a multitude of regulatory laws, including the Stark self-referral laws, the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, and their state counterparts, including Florida’s fee splitting prohibitions. We routinely structure contracts and other financial arrangements to ensure compliance with these various regulatory laws to help hospitals, physicians and other health care providers meet their business objectives.

Stark, Anti-kickback, HIPAA, etc.

We help clients navigate the complex regulatory climate of health care. Violations of Stark, Anti-kickback and HIPAA can result in significant financial penalties and even criminal charges. Our experienced attorneys will structure financial relationships between health care providers and health care entities in a manner which will be in compliance with state and federal regulations.

Large Group Practice Formation

In the age of so-called health care reform, physicians are being pressured to operate their medical practices more efficiently and with the lowest overhead possible without compromising patient care. One option for physicians is to ban together to form a group practice where physicians can spread out overhead among a larger group and also share in the provision of ancillary services. We assist clients in forming these large group practices, whether they are a single specialty or a multi-specialty group to make sure all contractual arrangements and business structures are in full compliance with state and federal laws and regulations.

General Corporate and Business Law/Health Care Business Start-ups

Like other industries, a significant portion of our clients are entrepreneurial and seek new and exiting business opportunity. We help our clients by providing advice and counsel on current and long term business objectives. We then assist the client in selecting the most beneficial business entity, whether that is a corporation, limited liability company, general partnership or limited partnership. We prepare all necessary documents needed to start a new business including, shareholder agreements, operating agreement, partnership agreements. When unfortunate time comes when a health care company needs to be dissolved, we help clients smoothly negotiate through this challenging and often complex process.

Telemedicine

Although telemedicine has been around for decades, new technologies are making telemedicine an increasingly viable and even a preferred method of health care delivery. However, even though technology exists to allow most people access to services through telemedicine, state and federal regulators are still behind in adapting current laws or adopting new ones. Proper use of telemedicine may greatly increase access to care and significantly reduce the cost of providing many services. Many clients desiring to establish a telemedicine practice ask us to evaluate state and federal laws that may impact telemedicine and to assist in setting up a legally compliant telemedicine delivery model.

Concierge Medicine

Most physician specialties, especially the primary care specialties (internal medicine, family practice, and cardiology) are experiencing significant declines in reimbursements from commercial insurance plans and government payers. The unfortunate result is a physician’s inability to spend the time they wish to spend with patients, because they are compelled to see more patients in order to sustain increasing operating costs. Many clients have decided to practice “the old fashion way” by abandoning third party payers altogether and provide services through a cash payment model. Often called concierge or retainer practices, these practices allow physicians to decrease the number of patients in their practice with the end result being more personalized patient care and financial stability for the physician. We have assisted many clients in establishing these models by preparing all of the appropriate documents and provide advice and counsel on maintaining regulatory compliance.

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