Matters
- Coordinated health care transactions, including medical-surgical and psychiatric hospital and nursing home acquisitions and sales and physician practice acquisitions.
- Guided a behavioral health provider through the full spectrum of licensure and zoning requirements to open outpatient and residential facilities in Tennessee for the first time.
- Assisted a hospital in establishing the legal and operational process for involuntary commitment of psychiatric patients, including analyzing the interaction between the involuntary commitment process and EMTALA.
- Assisted a behavioral health hospital in navigating its relationship with a disability rights patient advocacy group, including responding to requests for patient records and related inquiries from state licensing agency.
- Managed all aspects of initial and ongoing Medicare provider enrollment for a multifacility, multistate long-term care provider.
- Assisted multiple clients with obtaining initial licensure and changing ownership of licensed long-term care facilities in Tennessee and other states.
- Guided a client through the entire process of closing a licensed and Medicare-certified nursing home, including transferring the facility license and obtaining and maintaining inactive status for the nursing home license.
- Managed attorney general review processes for multiple transactions involving the sale or merger of nonprofit health care facilities in Tennessee, Virginia and New Jersey.
- Drafted complete HIPAA privacy policies and procedures for a multistate psychiatric health system, including analyzing the interaction between state privacy laws and HIPAA.
- Advised clients on application of 42 C.F.R. Part 2 related to substance use disorder and alcohol addiction treatment, including analyzing the interaction of Part 2 with HIPAA and applicable state laws.
- Analyzed fraud and abuse compliance, including Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute and state law issues.
- Advised a large number of clients on responding to subpoenas, law enforcement requests and attorney demands for confidential patient information.
- Represented a behavioral health provider operating approximately two dozen psychiatric hospitals and outpatient programs in multiple states in its $310 million sale to a private equity buyer.
- Represented a multi-state behavioral health provider in its $170 million sale of eight psychiatric hospitals to a multi-state behavioral health and addiction treatment provider.
- Represented a city public health authority in its $11 million acquisition of a public hospital.
- Represented a nonprofit foundation in the $40 million sale of its interest in a large hospital to an academic medical center.
- Represented a nationally regarded health system in a novel transaction with nearby colleges and the local public school system to establish a health sciences academy.
- Represented a national laboratory company in a joint venture with a nonprofit health system valued at approximately $300 million to combine all the parties’ outreach services in a state.
- Represented a national laboratory company in its $100 million acquisition of a laboratory specializing in AI-driven services.
- Represented a multi-state behavioral health provider in acquisition of a ketamine practice.
- Represented a national ambulatory surgery center operator in multiple buy-up transactions and health system joint ventures related to physician-owned surgery centers.
- Represented multiple behavioral health providers in the creation and implementation of a captive PC structure and ongoing corporate practice of medicine compliance.
