Healthcare

Sacks Tierney is a 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