Navigate the Health Care Industry with Confidence

Health care providers are faced with complex, ever-changing regulatory and business considerations at every turn. At Semanoff Ormsby Greenberg & Torchia, LLC, we know that health care providers need attorneys equipped with focused industry knowledge and practical business savvy and experience.

Our firm’s health law attorneys have a broad range of experience and industry-specific knowledge, spanning a wide array of specialties, enabling us to provide our clients with an unparalleled edge in the health care market.

Clients

We serve health care professionals throughout the health care space, including:

• Physicians’ practices of all sizes and types
• Home care and home health agencies
• Dental practices
• Durable medical goods and equipment (DME) companies
• Health care service providers and administrators
• County managed care programs
• Hospital medical executive committees
• Skilled nursing facilities
• Continuing care retirement communities
• Pharmaceutical marketing and sales companies
• Psychiatric and behavioral health facilities

Services

Whether you are acquiring or selling a practice or health care business, or are navigating complicated state and federal compliance issues, our attorneys are prepared to help.

We advise, draft and negotiate agreements for a full range of transactions, ranging in size from less than a million to multimillion dollar deals, including leveraged buyouts, asset acquisitions and dispositions, stock and equity transfers, strategic transactions and joint ventures for a wide variety of health care entities. We can guide you through the maze of state and federal regulatory concerns, such as licensing, changes of ownership (CHOW), accreditation and certification, and organizational governance requirements and peer review. We can help you navigate complex fraud and abuse laws. This includes the federal Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, the Exclusion Statute and the False Claims Act. We routinely assist our clients on patient privacy and security compliance matters.

We have helped clients successfully in a variety of matters, including:

• Accountable care organization developments
• Accreditation matters
• Affordable Care Act (ACA) Compliance
• Aligning incentives to manage costs
• Business agreements (medical director, employment, joint venture)
• Bylaws review and/or development
• Changes of Ownership relating to licensing and Medicare/Medicaid enrollment
• Complying with HITECH amendments
• Contract review and negotiation
• Corporate practice of medicine
• Corporate structuring and governance
• Data breach and cyber-security issues
• Dental associate employment review and negotiation
• Electronic signatures/authorizations
• Equipment purchase decisions
• Fraud and abuse laws
• Health care practice buy-out agreements
• Health care practice purchases and sales
• Health information technology
• HIPAA Compliance
• Implementing an EHR system
• Labor, employment, and human resource issues, including employee handbooks
• Licensing concerns (facility and professional)
• Management agreements (including Dental Services Organization (DSO) and Medical Services Organization (MSO) management agreements)
• Managing business associate relationships
• Medical office building/real estate transactions
• Medicare, Medicaid and third-party payer contracting, compliance and reimbursement
• Negotiating contracts with providers
• Payor audit response and defense
• Policies and procedures compliance review
• Provider and payor relationships
• Reimbursement disputes and appeals
• Right-to-know issues
• State regulation
• Structuring business transactions
• Updating policies, procedures and forms