Health Care

Trenam Kemker’s team of health care attorneys have experience in all aspects of representing health care businesses, ranging from health care, tax and general business representation to a myriad of health care litigation issues. We represent individual professionals, physician group practices, practice management and management service organizations, and ancillary businesses (e.g., ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, rehabilitation centers, sleep disorder centers, pharmacies; and smoke cessation centers).

Our team of health care attorneys have the practical experience to advise clients on a variety of matters including:

• Business structuring, including entity selection and joint venture structuring, and preparation of shareholder/general and limited partnership/LLC/LLP agreements
• Preparation of management and employment/independent contractor agreements, including drafting, enforcement and defense of exclusive contracts and covenants not to compete/covenants not to solicit
•  Advice regarding compliance with federal and Florida health care legislation and regulations (including fraud and abuse and referral restrictions)
• Professional insurance and asset preservation planning
• Operational advice, including Medicare/Medicaid filings and third party reimbursement matters
• Advice regarding practice sales and purchases, mergers, consolidations and dissolutions
• Representation before professional licensing boards and disciplinary committees
• Defending and prosecuting staff privilege and other credentialing disputes on behalf of professionals and hospital medical staffs
• Preparation and negotiation of exclusive provider contracts and Medical Director contracts between health care facilities and health care professionals
• Creation, operation, and dissolution of managed care organizations, including PPOs, HMOs, and self-insured arrangements
• Preparation and negotiation of managed care contracts (including payor and provider contracts)
• Health care mediation, arbitration and litigation, including defending professional liability lawsuits

Our health care attorneys stay abreast of developments in the industry through involvement in local and national organizations that serve the health care industry, active participation in Bar Association programs that focus on health care and regular continuing education participation.

For more information contact:

Don B. Weinbren

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