“They have specialty lawyers in multiple areas to give us comprehensive service.” -Health Care Client, Chambers USA
Frantz Ward’s Health Care Practice Group provides full-spectrum legal counsel to health care entities, offering strategic solutions that keep our clients compliant, protected, and ahead of industry challenges. We advise a wide range of health care organizations, including:
- Hospitals and health systems
- Medical practice organizations
- Home health and Medicaid waiver providers
- Hospice organizations
- Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) providers
- Diagnostic testing facilities
- Ambulatory surgery centers
- Pharmacies
- Mental health and substance abuse treatment services
- Telemedicine providers
- Managed care organizations
Our attorneys handle a variety of transactional matters, such as hospitals and health system mergers and acquisitions, health care financing, joint ventures, physician practice acquisitions, physician contracting, and the development of ambulatory surgery centers and diagnostic testing facilities. We counsel clients on health care regulatory and compliance issues, assist with medical data privacy and security matters, and serve as outside general counsel to health care industry clients, rendering advice on an array of health care, general business, and corporate governance matters.
We have particular experience advising laser hair removal and skin care providers, dermatologists, and plastic surgeons on legal issues unique to the medical aesthetics “Med Spa” industry. Additionally, we regularly work with drug and alcohol treatment centers, hospice, home health and waiver services providers, and long-term care facilities.
Our team routinely counsels clients with respect to:
- Health care mergers and acquisitions
- Fraud, abuse, and compliance
- HIPAA privacy and security issues
- Billing and reimbursement
- Health care financing
- Quality assurance and risk management
- Licensure, certification, and accreditation
- Hospital medical staff credentialing and governance
- Nonprofit formation and governance
- Health benefit plans and managed care programs
- Health care labor and employment issues
Representative Matters
- Represented an institutional pharmacy in a $22 million divestiture of substantially all of its assets.
- Served as counsel in the merger of three rural hospitals to form a new rural health system, including obtaining regulatory assent from the Michigan Department of Attorney General to the transaction.
- Represented a non-profit hospice care organization in the acquisition of hospice care programs.
- Represented management services organizations doing business in multiple states, including concerning compliance with the corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting laws.
- Counseling private equity clients in the acquisition of health care business, including physician practices.
- Assisting health care clients with real property acquisition and leasing arrangements.
- Counseling on scope of practice and regulatory requirements for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other limited branch practitioners.
- Represented clients in health care data privacy and security incidents and investigations.
- Served as Ohio counsel for a national med spa trade association, assisting medical spa businesses in regulatory matters and business formation.
- Assisting a hospital system to design a physician employee retention program, including the design of a mechanism to recruit physicians to the hospital and to employ the physicians on an incentivized basis; and to pay physicians on the Medical Staff compensation for providing call services to the hospital.
- Assisting institutional provider clients, including hospitals, to form joint venture entities with community stakeholders to operate ancillary health care services, including oncology, radiology, pain management, dialysis, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, and sleep center services.
- Assisting not for profit health care providers apply for designation as tax-exempt entities under Internal Revenue Code Chapter 501(c)(3) as Public Charities from the IRS.
- Forming charitable foundations for non-profit health care providers.
