Overview

Charles (Charlie) R. Buck advises health care enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including proprietary and tax-exempt hospital systems, academic medical centers and faculty practice groups, accountable care organizations, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other health insurers.

Charlie provides legal counsel and solutions in connection with acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic affiliations, conversions to tax-exempt status, and other transactional matters. He advises clients forming and operating accountable care organizations (ACOs), including commercial ACOs and those in the Medicare Pioneer Program and Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs.

Charlie focuses his regulatory practice on federal fraud and abuse laws (including the Stark Law), obtaining and maintaining tax-exemption, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and health information privacy, state insurance licensure and determination of need law, and general corporate matters.

After earning his law degree, Charlie clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to law school, Charlie served on the professional staff of the United States Senate Finance Committee for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where he concentrated on health reform and Medicare Part A. He also worked as a policy analyst at the Jackson Hole Group, where he focused on rural health care and purchasing cooperatives.

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Results

Assisted multiple ACOs with formation and Medicare approval
Successful consolidation of a physician group with more than 700 members
Multiple successful hospital mergers and acquisitions

Recognitions

Chambers USA 2006 to 2019
The Legal 500 United States, 2015 to 2019
The Best Lawyers in America 2008 to 2020, including “Lawyer of the Year” for Health Care Law in Boston, in 2015 and 2018