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Notable Experience
- Created and implemented a clinical integration program in compliance with FTC/ DOJ guidance involving a PHO in which the corporate member was a large urban academic medical center
- Provided counsel to a multi-hospital system regarding the range of permissible joint activity pursuant to the Copperweld doctrine and other anti-trust guidance
- Developed extensive anti-trust policy and guidelines for a major health information association in which competing vendors participate
- Handled numerous physician practice acquisitions, including the development of a medical foundation model integrated delivery system that allowed for the integration of several groups of physicians into a new tax-exempt entity to provide medical services in a hospital system
- Implemented a strategy that allowed a hospital to acquire several practices of specialists (neurology, cardiology, neurosurgery and orthopedics)
- Developed a model for the purchase of physician practices by Hospitals that can be efficiently and economically implemented
- Advising clients on a myriad of issues arising under HIPAA, such as whether a hospital physician can notify a patient’s significant other that the patient has tested HIV positive, when the patient is refusing to do so or whether a hospital can contact a police department when a patient is discharged so that a police officer can arrest the patient, to name just a few
- Advising clients on the appropriate response, including preparation of motions to quash when subpoenas when necessary, for requests to release medical records when they fail to comply with HIPAA requirements
- Development of a HIPAA compliance program, including policies, procedures, and self-study educational modules, for multiple clients, including a multi-provider hospital system
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