Mitigating Regulatory Risk in Healthcare Services Transactions: Reimbursement, Licensure, Fraud and Abuse

Mr. Prives extensive experience spans critical areas such as hospital-physician alignment, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, due diligence reviews, licensure matters, and health care information technology. He is also experienced in health care compliance, providing guidance on key regulatory matters, including the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA, and the corporate practice of medicine doctrine. Mr. Prives serves a diverse health care client base, representing both for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, physician groups, academic medical centers, ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), home health agencies, laboratories, telemedicine companies, medical billing companies, dental groups, and substance abuse centers. His experience also extends to advising private equity firms, investment funds, family offices, and investors in the health care sector. Beyond health care, Mr. Prives brings considerable experience in corporate law, regularly advising on mergers and acquisitions, contractual negotiations, regulatory compliance, and due diligence across various industries.

Mr. Strode's practice focuses on health care business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructurings and joint ventures, general corporate matters and health care regulation. His experience includes the representation of institutional health care providers, large physician groups, specialty providers (ASC development organizations), health care private equity firms and industry consultants. He participated as lead counsel in numerous health care and corporate transactions, including the purchase and sale, or transfer of sponsorship of hospitals, health systems, physician practices and health maintenance organizations; the formation of specialty hospitals; and the formation of ancillary services joint ventures.