Corporate / Business Law

This practice area includes:

• Employment agreements for employers and employees
• Independent contractor agreements
• Practice incorporation, merger and restructuring
• Corporate structure decisions
• New employee agreements
• Shareholders agreements
• Physician recruitment agreements
• Practice purchase or sale
• Disgruntled patient management
• Practice start up or wind down matters
• Professional grievances matters
• Rent/lease/sublease agreements
• Employee matters and dispute resolution
• Independent contractor arrangements for in-office services – Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Nutritionist, Occupational or Physical Therapist
• Medical record documentation compliance and liability
• Office policy issues
• Managed Care related matters
• Contract review and negotiations for:
  • Health care technology equipment purchase or lease (ex. computers, Dexascans, digital EKG units)
  • Computer healthcare software purchase or lease, especially Electronic health records and practice management software, eRx programs and back up or storage vendors
  • Payment (credit cards and check scanning devices) and billing agreements
  • Managed Care Organizations (MCO) contracts

• Website review for compliance with professional guidelines, law and liability
• E-health matters (emailing patients, online consultations, payment for e-services, office polices, professional websites, blogs, internet and Wi-Fi issues)
• Minimizing liability online – protecting your reputation online and social media assessment
• Compliance with State and Federal law and evolving healthcare legislation such as:
  • Stark applications
  • Healthcare Reform legislation- the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
  • HIPAA and the HITECH Act, 2013 Omnibus Rule Amendments
  • ADA
  • FMLA
  • ERISA
  • Anti-kickback statutes
  • Fraud and Abuse statutes
  • Medicare
• Medicare and commercial health insurance investigations and audits