Corporate Practice of Medicine and Fee-Splitting: Ensuring Compliance With the Prohibitions, Leveraging Exceptions

Mr. Conn focuses his practice on corporate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and regulatory matters related to the financial services and healthcare industries. He has represented both private and public clients in complex buy-side and sell-side transactions. Mr. Conn has experience representing health industry clients on matters relating to professional practice acquisitions and structuring of professional practice and professional practice management businesses. He also regularly advises companies on various corporate governance matters. In December 2020, Mr. Conn was selected as Venable’s Treanor Fellow and served a six-month fellowship at Maryland Legal Aid, where he represented tenants facing eviction in Baltimore City’s rent court.

Mr. Markenson practices at the intersection of healthcare, law, and business. He advises healthcare industry clients, including investors, lenders, providers, and suppliers, on a broad range of regulatory and corporate matters, and has significant experience conducting due diligence in complex healthcare industry acquisitions and financial transactions. He regularly represents private equity firms and lenders in such transactions and evaluates and advises on compliance and regulatory issues with regard to sellers and potential borrowers from banks and financing sources. He also advises various healthcare entities on regulatory matters, including conditions for participation, fraud and abuse, and survey, certification, licensure, and enforcement issues, Medicare and Medicaid conditions for participation, obtaining a certificate of need approval, and state licensure.