The Health Care Department includes attorneys with a wide range of specialized health care-related experience. Serving hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, home health agencies, physician groups, assisted living residences, and ambulatory surgery centers, the team often identifies potential mergers and acquisitions and then completes such transactions. Services include joint ventures, coalition-building, and legal counsel related to corporate matters and financing.

Representative Matters

● Largest health care system in Massachusetts in assuming control of two non-profit geographically isolated hospitals, in order to provide the communities with increased access to world-renowned physicians, the highest level of care, and the most advanced technology.  The affiliation, considered a change of ownership of the hospitals at the state level, required corporate reorganizations, Determination of Need and licensure approvals from the Department of Public Health, and both Medicare and Medicaid filings.

● A major faculty practice plan's hemophilia treatment center in establishing a 340B program

● A behavioral health managed care entity in its negotiation and implementation of multimillion dollar statewide risk agreements to manage the mental health and substance abuse services of commercial subscribers and Medicaid beneficiaries 

● Hospitals and other health care providers as borrower's counsel for numerous tax exempt bond and lease financing transactions

● A national Positron Emissions Tomography and nuclear imaging company  in the development of its facilities, including joint ventures with academic medical centers

● A nonprofit faculty practice plan in connection with investment and ownership of a specialty ambulatory surgery center

● A state medical society and its insurance brokerage subsidiary on all corporate matters, legislative initiatives and peer review activities

● Major teaching hospitals in obtaining regulatory approvals for $55 million, $200 million, and $500 million construction projects

● A liver cell research and development company in its sale to a publicly traded biotechnology entity

● Multiple community hospitals in obtaining regulatory approvals for significant hospital construction projects

● A non-profit long-term care entity in the purchase and development of its 120-bed replacement facility, including all health care regulatory and local real estate permitting

● Various hospital and imaging providers in obtaining cutting edge innovative services and new technology including, but not limited to, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, Radiation Therapy, Cardiac Surgery, Primary and Elective Angioplasty, etc.

● Non-profit and for-profit home health and hospice agencies in various acquisitions 

● Physicians, nurses, and nursing home administrators before the applicable Boards of Registration

● A major health care company in the strategic design and implementation of long-term care hospital market strategies and growth models

● Health care institutions and their senior management in training on important issues including: medical records confidentiality and documentation; Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Law, EMTALA and HIPAA compliance; licensure requirements; diagnostic testing and imaging ventures; and physician recruitment programs

● A major academic medical center in obtaining a National Coverage Decision that lead to Medicare certification as a liver transplant center

● A Massachusetts hospital in the development of a hospital/physician joint venture for the management of surgical services

● Nursing homes in obtaining approvals for significant new construction and/or renovation projects

● Hospitals and nursing homes in state and federal Medicare certification surveys and quality of care enforcement actions, state legislative relief regarding discrete issues, and state and federal change of ownership filings