Health Care

Healthcare and human services organizations care about our community and so do we. While our clients work hard to develop better ways to provide their services and to promote long term wellness, we stay on top of the vast healthcare law field to provide meaningful counsel when they call.

Representative Clients

• Hospitals

• Continuing care retirement communities

• Diagnostic and Treatment Centers

• Nursing Homes

• Adult Care Facilities

• Drug and Alcohol Abuse Programs

• Mental Health Providers

• Hospice providers

• Physicians

Regulatory law: We have significant experience sorting through the intricacies of the complex and heavily regulated health care field. We assist clients in assuring compliance with health care fraud and abuse laws, including "Stark" anti-self referral laws, anti-kickback and fee-splitting laws, and federal false claims regulations. We understand the regulations and the system of the New York State Department of Health and know who to call to get things done at the state level.

Contract law: As requested by our clients, we negotiate, review and draft contracts needed to run health care facilities, such as physician contracts, residency agreements, or treatment and consent issues.

Corporate restructuring: We handle all aspects of major corporate reorganizations, with special focus on the issues pertinent to our client's organization. We assist our clients in developing appropriate corporate governance documents, such as by-laws and rules and procedures for management.

We are experienced transactional attorneys. We served as counsel to an out-of-state developer in connection with a cooperative continuing care retirement community in Long Island. This project involves a tax exempt corporation as the owner and operator of a life community and a separate cooperative corporation with a ground lease for the residential units. The corporate structure for this project integrated the relationships between the life care provider, its obligations to provide long term medical care, the cooperative corporation and the rights of elderly tenant-shareholders. Such complicated relationships require creative legal engineering, and we were actively involved in this process.

Financing: We have significant experience sorting through complex corporate finance issues, including bond and other financing arrangements for health care institutions.

Employment, personnel and labor matters: We work with health care facilities on employment contracts, staff bylaws and staff privilege matters, as well as collective bargaining agreements and labor arbitrations. Read more

Licensing: Licensing for continuing care retirement communities and other health care institutions in New York state can be an extremely tricky issue. We guide our clients through this process. We represented (and still represent) the first continuing care community licensed in New York State.

Processing certificates of need: We assist clients in filing certificate of need applications. For more information on certificates of need see the department of health's website at http://www.nyhealth.gov/facilities/cons/

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) and other compliance issues. We help health care institutions to understand new statutes and regulations and to develop policies and procedures to assure compliance.