We have substantial experience in counseling our clients in health care financing, health care investments, mergers and acquisitions of provider entities, issues related to tax-exemption, corporate governance, physician and executive compensation, third-party payor contracts and reimbursement, and managed care contracts. Our advice to clients is grounded on our combined knowledge and experience with business law and with the complex regulatory environment governing health care. Business counseling in the health care field almost always requires an in-depth understanding of the complexities of self-referral, anti-kickback, reimbursement, and privacy laws among others. Our lawyers have such knowledge and are skilled to advise clients on issues, the correct answers to which are sometimes very complex and sometimes counterintuitive to the non-health care business person or layman, and which therefore require clear explanation and guidance.
Aside from counseling on typical business transactions, we have offered business counseling to hospitals on environmental matters, on restraint of trade issues arising out of managed care contracts, on intellectual property issues and on governmental investigation issues. We have counseled a variety of providers on the regulatory impact of investing in ambulatory surgery centers, emergency room staffing entities, independent diagnostic testing facilities and other imaging facilities, in acquiring or merging with other providers, in forming hospital-physician joint ventures or other joint ventures, in financing new acquisitions and restructuring existing businesses, in assessing various employment arrangements, stockholder/member arrangements and corporate governance issues.