Practice Areas & Industries: Miller & Martin PLLC

Practice/Industry Group Overview

No segment of our economy has undergone more transformation in the past ten years than health care. Changes in the delivery of health care present both challenges and opportunities to health care providers and to those who pay for health care services.

Miller & Martin attorneys have been on the forefront in helping their clients develop innovative ways to deliver and purchase health care services. The legal issues involved include those that are part of most business enterprises, plus those that are unique to health care such as HIPAA, anti-kickback and self-referral provisions, Medicare and private pay or billing, certificate of need issues, health care insurance statutes and regulations, hospital or other health care facility operational and regulatory matters, ambulatory surgery centers and medical malpractice.

Services Available

Miller & Martin represents hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, physicians, physician groups, provider networks and managed care organizations. Its regional health care practice is substantial and its lawyers are experienced in all aspects of law relating to the issues unique to health care.

Representative Matters

• Regularly provide contracting and antitrust advice to health care provider clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, physician networks and physician hospital organizations.
• Handle certificate of need and licensure issues for more than 50 hospitals and nursing homes.
• Provided legal counsel to health care companies with tax, ERISA and COBRA issues associated with retirement, health, and other welfare benefit plans with emphasis on compliance and maintaining tax-qualified status of qualified retirement plans.
• Represented a hospital system in obtaining approval from the Antitrust Division of the State Attorney General's Office for the acquisition of five hospitals.
• Represented a group of community mental health centers to create an affiliation of providers that is now the largest provider of outpatient behavioral health services.
• Represented tax-exempt hospital in $60 million acquisition of another tax-exempt hospital and home health agency.
• Represent developer in acquisition/development of insurance assisted living centers.
• Served as borrower's counsel for several major hospitals in connection with tax exempt bond issues ranging from $25 million to $45 million.