Healthcare

Sacks Tierney is a Best Lawyer® –  Best Law Firms selectee for Health Care Law (Regional Tier 2).

Sacks Tierney’s healthcare clientele includes:

• Physicians and physician groups
• Non-physician healthcare providers (such as nurses and physical therapists)
• Management services organizations
• Physician networks
• Outpatient surgery centers
• Imaging centers
• Trade and professional associations
• Healthcare equipment and product manufacturers and distributors

Our attorneys can address virtually all of the complex legal issues associated with healthcare:

CORPORATE LAW

• Forming and representing practice entities
• Structuring compensation arrangements
• Adding physician employees and partners
• Dealing with departing physicians
• Preparing and analyzing physician employment agreements, recruiting agreements, and restrictive covenants
• Joint ventures among healthcare providers

REGULATION

• Healthcare regulatory issues, such as Medicare anti-kickback and Stark matters
• EMTALA, HIPAA privacy regulations, and antitrust laws
• Compliance plans

MANAGED CARE

• Preparing and analyzing managed care contracts
• Representing providers in disputes with managed care payors
• Dealing with insolvent PHOs, insurers, or other payors

TRANSACTIONS

• Purchase and sale of physician practices and other healthcare entities
• Drafting and review of leases
• Mergers and joint ventures

OTHER MATTERS

• Financing: representing clients in capital-raising ventures through tax-exempt bonds, traditional loans, and other financing vehicles
• Medical records: ownership, disclosure and retention
• Disputes: antitrust litigation over exclusive physician-hospital contracts and litigation over the enforceability of restrictive covenants against physicians