Practice Areas & Industries: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Practice/Industry Group Overview
Overview Buchanan Ingersoll's Health Care Section utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to provide a wide range of legal services to our health care clients. Our understanding of the heavily regulated and evolving health care industry has developed from decades of representing health care organizations in a multitude of legal matters. The attorneys working in our Health Care Section pride themselves on the ability to provide legal advice that is comprehensive yet practical. Mindful of our clients' business objectives, our legal services are results-driven, which brings greater focus and adds value to the attorney-client relationships we maintain. Over the past five years alone, our health care transaction lawyers have been involved in a significant number of health care mergers, acquisitions and other transactions having an aggregate value in excess of $14 billion. The Health Care Section represents health care organizations across the spectrum of the health care industry. Among the organizations that we currently represent are: :: Academic medical centers. :: Conversion foundations. :: Dialysis providers. :: Faculty practice plans. :: Hospice organizations. :: Hospitals and health systems. :: Joint operating companies and joint ventures. :: Long-term care providers. :: Managed care organizations. :: Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. :: Physician practice groups. :: Public hospitals. :: Religious organizations and religiously affiliated providers. :: Supporting organizations and hospital foundations. :: Tax exempt affiliated service organizations. :: Trade associations. :: Units of government. The evolving nature of the competitive health care industry has created significant legal issues for health care providers. Our experience and background assisting health care organizations provides us with a substantial knowledge base from which we are able to creatively assist and strategize with our clients. The Health Care Section's 20 attorneys actively provide legal advice in the following areas: Corporate Law and Organizational Matters :: Corporate governance and control :: Corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other fundamental transactions :: Employment and compensation :: Fiduciary responsibility :: Financings (tax-exempt and taxable, private placements of debt and equity, and alternative techniques such as leasing and REITs) :: Foundation (conversion and hospital-focused) :: Non-profit corporation law matters (including the defense of charitable trust challenges) :: Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry practice :: Provider integration and disintegration strategies :: Provider credentialing and contracting :: Religiously affiliated health care organizations :: Securities law issues :: Shared service organizations :: Tax exemption law compliance Regulatory and Operational Matters :: Accreditation :: Antitrust and trade regulation :: Behavioral health :: Certificate of need :: Corporate compliance :: Fraud and abuse compliance and qui tam action defense :: Information technology and HIPAA Compliance :: Licensure :: Managed care :: Medical ethical issues :: Medical staff matters :: Medicare and Medicaid billing and reimbursement :: Physician recruitment For More Information For more information about Buchanan Ingersoll's Health Care Section, please contact the chair or the vice chair of the section, or the Buchanan Ingersoll attorney with whom you have a relationship. Thomas M. Tammany, chair 215-665-2803 - tammanytm@bipc.com Jonathan Vipond, vice chair 717-237-4804 or vipondj@bipc.com Dale S. Webber, vice chair 813-222-8187 - webberds@bipc.com

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