Dean Mead’s Health Law Team provides full service legal representation to health care providers in all medical fields. Our team includes members from each practice area so that we are able to provide comprehensive legal representation for all issues facing our health care clients.
Breadth of Industry Representation:
Dean Mead's Health Law Team is highly knowledgeable about the issues facing health care providers, suppliers, facilities, and professionals. Dean Mead and our Health Law practice group members are widely known for our strengths in representation of physician group practices and ancillary services ventures, transactional practice and taxation matters, employee benefits, estate planning for professionals, health care real estate ventures, and administrative and regulatory matters. We serve as legal counsel to:
- Ambulatory Surgery Centers
- Assisted Living Facilities
- Continuing Care Communities
- Group Home Operators
- Home Health Agencies
- Independent Practice Associations
- Individual Physicians and Professionals
- Long-Term Care Centers
- Managed Care Providers
- Medical Equipment and Supply Companies
- Pediatric Extended Care Facilities
- Physician Group Practices
Areas of Experience:
Our Health Law Team frequently handles business transactions between or involving healthcare providers, including mergers and acquisitions and formation and operation of group practices. Our attorneys facilitate transactions with hospitals and other health care facilities, work on IPAs and MSOs, group purchasing arrangements, and the formation and operation of integrated delivery systems. Representation of physicians and other providers often involves addressing issues presented under the Medicare and Medicaid laws, including those relating to billing, reassignment of benefits, and fraud and abuse, as well as those matters regulated by various state and federal administrative agencies. In addition, we handle relations with managed care organizations, including managed care contracting (fee-for-service and capitated), and global billing arrangements.
Dean Mead's lawyers have experience representing health care providers on the following types of matters:
- Administrative Hearings
- Anti-Kickback Issues
- Ancillary Services
- Antitrust
- Asset Protection
- Billing and Coding Audits
- Business Planning/Structuring
- Buy-In/Pay Out Arrangements
- Call Duty Issues
- Civil Litigation
- Compliance Audits
- Contracts
- Corporate Compliance Programs
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Maintenance
- Cost Reimbursement Appeals
- eHealth Issues
- Employee Benefits & Retirement Plans
- Employment Contracts
- Employment Law
- EMTALA
- ERISA
- Estate Planning
- Equipment Leasing and Financing
- Facility and Medical Staff Issues
- False Claims Actions
- Federal and State Antitrust
- Federal and State Securities Offerings
- Federal and State Tax Matters
- Formation & Operation of Group Practices
- Fraud and Abuse
- General Business/Corporate
- HIPAA Compliance Guidance
- Hospital Relations/Issues
- Hospital Staff Privileges
- Income Division
- Informed Consent
- Insurance Claims
- IPAs
- Joint Venture Agreements
- Liability Coverage Issues
- Licensing and Certification Issues
- Managed Care Contracting
- Medical Litigation
- Medicare and Medicaid Provider Issues
- Medicare/Medicaid Reimbursement
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Non-Competition Agreements and Litigation
- Office Leases
- Patients' Rights
- Peer Review
- Physician-Hospital Relationships and
- Contracts
- Physician Compensation
- Privacy Issues
- Professional Discipline
- Provider Decertification
- Provider Enrollment
- Real Estate Ownership and Development
- Regulatory Compliance
- Risk Management
- Stark I and II
- Self Referral Issues
- Shareholder Agreements
- Taxation
Notable Work:
Formation of physician-hospital radiology joint venture for multiple outpatient diagnostic imaging centers, including operating agreement, space and equipment leases, reading, billing, and management services agreements
Hospital buy-out of physician group practices and physician employment
Conversion of physician group practices from C- to S-corporations
Negotiation, preparation and review of multiple hospital-based specialist "exclusive contracts"
Management of medical claim billing and coding audits, voluntary repayment, physician termination and separation
Ongoing representation of approximately 300 physician group practices
Health Law Team Members:
Alan H. Daniels
Christopher R. D'Amico
Steven C. Lee
Stephen R. Looney
Tracy J. Mabry
Robert W. Mead, Jr.
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