Health Care Institutions & Facilities

The operation of modern health care facilities is among the most complex and resource intensive endeavors in the world. Today, a general acute care hospital can be the size of a small city, having thousands of staff members and an operating budget well in excess of $100 million dollars. We represent these large hospitals as well as the smallest rural hospitals and every variety in between.

Additionally, our professionals advise multi-facility health systems, long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals and CORFs, skilled nursing facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, free-standing radiation oncology centers, independent diagnostic testing facilities, and clinical pathology laboratories. Our clients include for profit, not-for-profit and physician-owned facilities.

Legal Solutions

Here are just a few of the legal services we provide to health care institutions and facilities:

• Advising on facility licensure and accreditation matters including initial licensure and accreditation, licensure modification, adverse licensure actions, and survey preparation
• Advising on daily operational and compliance issues, including those affecting relationships with patients, vendors, employees, medical staff and licensing and regulatory entities
• Handling of facility mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
• Advising on governmental and private payor reimbursement issues affecting payment for services rendered in inpatient, outpatient and “freestanding” care delivery environments
• Preparing, reviewing and negotiating agreements for all types of hospital-physician relationships including medical director arrangements, physician recruitment assistance arrangements and medical office leases
• Structuring and analysis of relationships for compliance with health care fraud and abuse laws including the federal “Stark Law” and Anti-Kickback Statute and their respective implementing regulations
• Creating and reviewing all types of clinical and administrative policies and procedures
• Advising on health information issues including HIPAA and state law privacy and security, record maintenance and retention, documentation format and electronic health record matters
• Evaluating, planning and implementing hospital-physician joint ventures and physician-owned health care facilities
• Preparing, reviewing and negotiating vendor agreements for all types of goods and services
• Preparing, reviewing and revising Medical Staff Bylaws, policies and procedures

Call us today to discuss your specific health law needs at 214.624.6980.