Overview
Jay Sweetnich, Community Health Systems, Inc., Best Law Firm 2021
As innovative treatments proliferate and cost-effectiveness becomes paramount, healthcare is increasingly being delivered in the sub-acute space. Interest in specialty pharmacy, home health, hospice, therapy, behavioral health, residential care, day care and long-term care is at an all-time high, creating tremendous potential. At the forefront of this market expansion, we offer strategic, creative advice to help forward-thinking leaders capitalize on burgeoning opportunities.
We’ll help you overcome challenges and seize opportunity.
Possibility abounds for strategic clients who seek to expand on their existing lines of service, as well as for financial clients who see the growing value of sub-acute providers. At the same time, investors, owners and operators of public and private, for-profit and nonprofit service providers face a host of challenges, including evolving consumer demands, increased regulatory involvement, shifting reimbursement models, new delivery systems and technologies, and related business and legal hurdles.
We provide practical, multidisciplinary counsel on the myriad legal, regulatory, reimbursement and policy issues associated with the management and operation of sub-acute providers, payors and their business partners, as well as investors, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and lenders.
As the Office of the Inspector General increases its involvement in this growing sector, our compliance audits and training programs are specifically designed to provide clients with the tools required to meet the challenge of planned and unplanned governmental scrutiny. Our cross-functional team includes experienced medical, coding and valuation professionals, and we advise clients on a broad range of issues:
- Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and the development of new business lines
- Debt and equity financing
- Formation of provider networks
- Payor negotiations
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement matters
- State, Certificate of Need (CON) and licensure issues
- Contracts with third-party providers and employees
- Federal and state tax planning
- Antitrust and environmental compliance
- Government relations and legislative initiatives
