Academic Medical Centers
SNR Denton's health care lawyers have extensive experience
advising academic medical centers and their component medical
schools, teaching hospitals, faculty practice plans, foundations,
alliances, cooperatives and group purchasing organizations on
a wide variety of legal issues including those involving:
- Medicare, Medicaid and other federal and state health care
programs;
- Corporate transactions, including mergers, divestitures, stock
and asset acquisitions, affiliations, joint operating agreements
and joint ventures;
- Various business arrangements, hospital-physician alignment
strategies, contracts, marketing initiatives and investment
strategies that ensure compliance with federal and state
anti-kickback, physician self-referral, reassignment,
fee-splitting, beneficiary inducement, gainsharing, data privacy
and security, and related laws and regulations;
- Development and implementation of physician recruitment and
retention strategies and initiatives in compliance with applicable
fraud and abuse and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) laws and
regulations;
- Complex legal and regulatory issues relating to medical and
behavioral research;
- Development and implementation of policies and procedures
designed to ensure that consulting, research and other arrangements
between faculty practice plan physicians and pharmaceutical and
device manufacturers comply with applicable laws and regulations;
and
- Defense of administrative, civil and criminal audits,
investigations and litigation, including actions involving
alleged improper coding, billing, pricing and reimbursement,
as well as alleged violations of federal and state anti-kickback,
physician self-referral, and related laws and regulations.
Areas of focus:
- Antitrust and Competition
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Clinical Research and Clinical
Trials
- Corporate and Transactional
Matters
- Coverage and Reimbursement
- Employee Benefits and Executive
Compensation
- Fraud and Abuse and Corporate
Compliance
- Government Relations and Public
Policy
- Litigation
- Medicare Secondary Payer and Other
Coordination of Benefits
- Privacy and HIPAA Compliance
- Public and Private Finance
- Taxation