What we can do for you:

• Serve as hospital, medical practice or company general counsel
• Draft employment agreements with physicians
• Guide physician groups as they merge, split or add new partners
• Respond to an EMTALA complaint or investigation
• Help determine whether to refund Medicare payments
• Negotiate your contracts with payers
• Analyze and structure relationships for compliance with the Stark and Anti-Kickback statutes
• Advise on the parameters of a non-compete provision
• Draft health information management policies and procedures
• Perform a HIPAA privacy and security audit
• Serve on your institutional review board
• Review your informed consent documents
• Form new companies, imaging and surgery centers, joint ventures and subsidiaries
• Advise on whether to add nurse practitioners or physician assistants
• Represent you in a medical staff hearing or licensure action
• Draft a medical director agreement
• Draft a compliance plan and serve as your compliance officer
• Advise on whether you are billing Medicare correctly
• Argue denials with payers
• Work toward protecting you from Stark, Anti-Kickback or fee-splitting accusations