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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Our Healthcare Practice, which is chaired by a Board Certified Healthcare attorney, comprises approximately 25 lawyers located in our offices around the state. We are actively involved in representing the different players in the healthcare industry including hospitals and hospital systems, nursing homes, physician groups and individual physicians in most specialties, free-standing surgery centers, imaging centers, durable medical equipment companies, physician practice management companies, dialysis companies, and home health agencies.
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Services Available
Our Healthcare Practice represents healthcare industry clients in a wide variety of compliance, regulatory, and litigation matters, specifically including:
Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues
Compliance with fraud and abuse laws and regulations and Stark Law guidelines
Development and implementation of corporate compliance plans
Responding to subpoenas, audits, and investigations
Defense of fraud and abuse cases
Antitrust advice on structuring provider systems including IPA's, acquisitions, and the divestitures of healthcare facilities and businesses
Licensing of facilities and health care practitioners
Certificate of need and other regulatory matters
Mental health law
Guardianships
Physician and managed care contracts
Medical staff credentialing, including the preparation of Medical Staff Bylaws and the handling of medical staff disciplinary matters
Florida Patient Self Referral Act
We are regularly involved in federal and state tax planning for, and in the formation of, charitable foundations and tax-exempt organizations. We also represent healthcare industry clients on tax matters as diverse as letter ruling requests, Florida Department of Revenue formal and informal hearings, federal and state tax audits, and representation before the Tax Court.
Through our Government practice based in our Tallahassee office, we are able to offer clients lobbying expertise. Our attorneys in Tallahassee include the former Speaker of the Florida House and the former President of the Florida Senate. These attorneys are able not only to monitor the progress of the legislation, which may affect our healthcare clients, but they can affect its development as well. Their expertise allows us to represent healthcare clients in all aspects of regulatory processes and proceedings.
In addition to representing healthcare clients with "healthcare" issues, the Firm's broad range of expertise across all areas of practice allows us to represent healthcare clients in related areas such as employment law, public finance, antitrust, and bankruptcy. In the healthcare practice, we are able to draw on the broad experience of our colleagues and can assist our clients not only with legal matters but also with effective strategic planning, so necessary in the current rapidly changing healthcare environment.
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Clients:
Specialized Home Health Care , Services of Central Florida, Inc., d/b/a Best Choice Home Healthcare , International Rheumatology Network, LLC , Sheridan Healthcare, Inc. , Questar Imaging, Inc, H.I.G. Capital , OncoScripts, Inc, International Oncology Network, LLC , NET Healthcare, Inc., Radiology Associates of South Florida, P.A, Heart Life, LLC, St. Anthony's Hospital, Inc., Catholic Health East, BayCare Health Systems, Halifax Hospital Medical Center, Wuesthoff Health Systems, Inc., All Children's Hospital, Women's Health Services, Inc., Abbott Ambulance - St. Louis, MO, DePaul Hospital - St. Louis, MO, Good Samaritan Health Systems, Inc., Good Samaritan Medical Pavilions, Intracoastal Health Systems, Inc., Mobile Medical Industries, Palm Beach Pathology, St. Luke's Hospital - St. Louis, MO, St. Mary's Hospital, Inc., Surgical Enterprises, Treasure Coast Center for Surgery
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Matter Experience
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Reported Cases |
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Lotenfoe v. Pahk, 747 So. 2d 422 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999)
, January 2, 1999
Arango v. St. Anthony's Hospital, 683 So. 2d 120 (Fla. 2 DCA 1996), January 2, 1996
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Group Presentations
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11/20/02 - HIPAA Privacy Presentation
, November 20, 2002
Physician Compensation Arrangements-Fraud and Abuse Implications (Health Care Financial Management Association), August 2000
, August 1, 2000
Risk Management and Basic Employment Contracting (Introduction to the Practice of Medicine in Florida, American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine), March 2000
, March 1, 2000
"Bioethics at the Bedside", December 1997
, December 1, 1997
"Legal Issues Involved in Contracting with Managed Care Plans", November 1996
, November 1, 1996
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Past Seminar Materials
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Languages spoken by Health Care Professionals
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