Russell C. Ramzel

Russell Ramzel is a health care attorney whose practice focuses primarily on regulatory compliance and transactional matters. He represents a range of clients in the health care industry, including hospital systems, psychiatric hospitals, long-term care facilities, pharmacies, residential child care facilities and suppliers of health care technologies and services. Mr. Ramzel works with clients to navigate agency licensure requirements, including residential child care licensing. He regularly advises clients concerning Certificate of Need, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, HIPAA, CHOWs, mergers and acquisitions, electronic health records (EHR) and meaningful use, and fraud and abuse issues such as antikickback and Stark.

Publications

• "Environmental Review of Permitted Pollution," Energy Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2011
• "2010-2011 National Health Law Moot Court Competition: Best Brief," Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2012

Experience

• Corporate restructure of residential child care facility+
• Corporate restructure of professional engineering corporation to obtain licenses to practice in multiple states and begin practicing land surveying
• Obtain Certificate of Need for life-care continuing care retirement community
• Represent buyer in purchase of hospital in asset acquisition
• Represent seller in sale of group practice to hospital system
• Represent buyer in asset acquisition of psychiatric residential treatment facility
• Draft resident agreements for life-care continuing care retirement community
• Draft Business Associate Agreement and HIPAA policies and procedures for health care service web-based supplier
• Represent defendant hospital concerning issues involving EHR system