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
Our Health Law Team is highly knowledgeable about the issues facing health care providers, suppliers, facilities, and professionals. Dean Mead and our Health Law Team 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
Health Law Articles
