Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP represents small and large physician groups, including multi-specialty group practices that operate across state lines, on the full range of legal issues that they encounter. We have extensive experience assisting physician practices comply with complex Stark Law regulations and other fraud and abuse statutes in structuring their various business relationships. Our health law practice represents physicians in their relationships with hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and other health care entities.
Our firm regularly represents physician practices in matters relating to:
Corporate and Commercial Matters
- Buy-sell agreements, mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, corporate formation, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, and operating agreements.
- Complex business and technology contracts, bank financing, expansions in-state and across state lines, real estate matters, equipment leasing transactions, professional service agreements, medical director agreements, administrative service agreements, clinical trial agreements, and practice management agreements.
- Hospital and health system affiliations and joint ventures, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging facilities, diagnostic and treatment centers, urgent care practices, and medical office buildings.
- Employment, employee handbooks and personnel policies, revenue sharing and compensation arrangements, employment and independent contractor agreements, and separation agreements, including non-solicitation, non-competition, and non-disclosure covenants.
Regulatory Matters
- Fraud and abuse counseling, including compliance with the Stark Law, federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the False Claims Act (FCA).
- Corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, and other state professional practice rules, regulations, and ethical standards.
- Electronic health records and HIPAA compliance, including data privacy, security rule requirements, cyber security, and data breach analysis and reporting.
- Compliance plans and compliance trainings, including under New York Medicaid compliance program regulations.
Payor Relationships, Audits, Investigations and Litigation
- Payor network participation, managed care arrangements, clinical integration transactions involving gainsharing, ACOs, and independent physician associations.
- Medicare, Medicaid and private payor audits and appeals, and self-disclosure issues related to identified overpayments.
- Health care fraud investigations and audits by the DOJ, OIG, OMIG and other federal and state governmental authorities, including internal reviews and investigations.
- Litigating breach of contract claims, restrictive covenants, intellectual property matters, employment matters and various commercial disputes, and defending regulatory actions by governmental authorities as well as professional conduct proceedings.
Our health law practice provides comprehensive legal representation of physicians and physician groups by working closely with attorneys across a range of the firm’s practice areas as needed.
For representation, please contact Robert Braumuller at 914-287-6185 or rbraumuller@bpslaw.com.
