Find Lawyers in Chicago, Illinois for Health Care Law
Practice Area Overview
- Transactions such as mergers and acquisitions of hospitals and health care companies; forming and implementing accountable care organizations; designing and negotiating physician-hospital alignment arrangements; and joint ventures and partnerships among health care providers and with health plans.
- Financing and restructurings, including capital access, venture capital/private equity investments and partnerships, and bankruptcies.
- Defending and managing mission-critical audits and investigations of potential False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback, Stark Law or other fraud and abuse violations; advising on self-disclosures; and negotiation of settlements and corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) with government agencies.
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, including general counseling, appeals, and updates on new developments.
- Advising on complex compliance issues and on compliance plans and procedures.
- Managed care contracting, litigation, and design of new reimbursement and risk-sharing models.
- Health information technology, such as contracting for electronic health records, cloud computing, software licensing, hardware acquisitions, and IT services and outsourcing.
- Privacy and security compliance, including counseling clients on HIPAA and HITECH Red Flag rules; designing compliance policies and procedures; internal compliance audits; responding to OCR investigations; monetizing health data; and managing and reporting data breaches.
- Corporate, regulatory, and strategic counseling issues, such as corporate structure, new business models, governance, licensure, certification and accreditation, and medical staff structures.
- Health care business negotiations and dispute resolution.
The client base in the health law practice is diverse and wide-ranging:
- Institutional health care providers, such as academic and community hospitals and health systems.
- Senior living and post-acute care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, community care retirement facilities, and home care and hospice facilities.
- Large physician groups, ambulatory surgery center and hospital developers, and ancillary service providers.
- Venture capital and private equity groups with health care funds and portfolio companies.
- Physician practice and health service management companies.
- Health care facility developers.
- Health insurers, reinsurers, and employer-sponsored health plans.
- Health information technology companies.
- Pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.
- Medical transportation companies.
- National provider and trade associations.
Bernadette M. Broccolo has been counseling health industry organizations for more than 34 years on leading-edge health industry relationship formation and realignments. Her areas of concentration include federal taxation of exempt organizations and nonprofit corporate governance, privacy, human subject protection and technology contracting. Please visit our website for further details on Bernadette's biography: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/b/broccolo-bernadette-m
John Callahan advises clients on health sector mergers and acquisitions. Public companies, private equity firms, nonprofit health systems, academic institutions and governmental entities have trusted John to assist them in executing their most critical transactions. His unique focus on corporate and healthcare law drives an efficient and client-oriented approach to executing transactions. John is Head of International Health M&A for the Firm. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/peopl...
Ken Davis helps his health care clients design, structure and grow their businesses. He represents physicians, hospitals, ancillary service companies and other health care and e-health providers and businesses in transactions and regulatory matters. With decades of experience and ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Ken is a trusted legal advisor for his health care clients' businesses. Ken is one of America's best-known attorneys and frequently ...
Heather’s experience includes the representation of healthcare providers, including hospitals, health systems, specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, multi- and single-specialty medical practices, and a wide variety of healthcare entrepreneurs. During the past several years, Heather has devoted the majority of her time and effort to matters related to hospitals, health systems and group medical practices. With experience that is both broad and deep, Heather represents healthca...
Sandra (Sandy) M. DiVarco focuses her practice on the representation of hospitals and health systems. She has counseled health care facility and system clients regarding all aspects of health law transactions and health system restructurings. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/divarco-sandra-m/
Tom Fahey advises hospitals, health systems and financial institutions on complex health care-related finance, strategy and compliance issues. Within the firm, Tom is managing partner of the Chicago office and is a member of the firm’s management committee. What do you focus on? I represent health care industry clients in the following areas: Strategic Transactions I advise health care providers on strategic issues and provide legal counsel to guide them in executing their strategies. I...
Stephen M. Fatum is a partner in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg. He concentrates his practice in the Healthcare Department. Stephen's focus has been on legal and strategic matters affecting physicians, physician organizations and not-for-profit corporations. Stephen routinely negotiates employment agreements, stock transfer agreements, operating agreements and affiliation agreements. He also defends physicians subject to disciplinary proceedings.Stephen is the former general cou...
Ashley Fischer is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. She is Partner-in-Charge of the Health Industry Advisory Practice Group in Chicago. She also co-chairs the firm’s Health Antitrust Affinity Group. Ashley represents healthcare providers on a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters, focusing on affiliations, collaborations, joint ventures, managed care contracting networks such as clinically-integrated networks (CINs) and accountable care organizations ...
Gregory E. Fosheim provides counsel on a wide array of corporate, transactional and regulatory compliance matters across the healthcare and life sciences industry. Leveraging his vast public health background and insight, he advises clients on healthcare fraud and abuse risks, Medicare, Medicaid and private payor billing, as well as clinical research and laboratory compliance in connection with federal grants. He also represents hospitals and health systems in all transactional matters, parti...
Mergers and acquisitions in the health care industry demand a thorough understanding of the unique organizations involved and the complex regulatory issues they face. Having completed more than 100 acquisitions in this field, including a number of industry-leading transactions, Lou Glaser can anticipate the full range of complications arising in this highly regulated environment. Health care providers turn to him for some of the largest deals involving hospitals and specialty medical practice...
Daniel F. Gottlieb counsels a wide range of healthcare industry clients, including healthcare providers, health plans, health information technology vendors, life sciences companies and data aggregators. He is sought out for his legal knowledge and practical approach on data protection, interoperability, and complex data and software licensing transactions, collaborations and strategic initiatives. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/gottlieb-daniel-f/
Linas Grikis, a member of the Firm's nationally recognized Health Care practice group, relies on his years of experience to routinely provide practical assistance to clients in the health care industry on a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. He regularly serves as lead counsel in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other health care transactions. He has negotiated complex, multiparty contracts on behalf of clients, including various types of pharmaceutical ...
Nasir Hussain (“Nas”) is a senior associate in Winston & Strawn’s internationally recognized litigation practice. He primarily represents clients in antitrust matters (litigation, merger reviews, and counseling), regulatory investigations and administrative actions (e.g., investigations into potential False Claims Act and Controlled Substances Act violations), internal investigations, and other high-value complex commercial litigation disputes. Though Nas serves clients ...
Lisa M. Kaderabek focuses her practice on captive insurance, risk transfer, reinsurance and related matters for health care entities and other businesses. Other practice areas include health care transactions, including securities offerings, joint ventures, physician/hospital syndications, tax-exempt bond financings, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, corporate governance and formation. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/kaderabek-lisa/
Tracey L. Klein counsels and provides legal advice and strategic counsel to a continuum of health care providers, including integrated health care delivery systems, hospitals and health systems, physician groups, individual health care professionals and tax-exempt organizations. She leverages more than 30 years of experience in regional and national transactions involving health care providers and health insurance companies, which include: Formation of joint operating entities Hospital affili...
As a sought-after transactional and regulatory advisor, Patrick J. Martinez has built his practice on executing complex healthcare acquisitions and joint ventures. He represents private equity firms and their platform companies in the acquisition and divestiture of for-profit healthcare companies, as well as provider-to-provider deals. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/patrick-j-martinez/
Laura Keidan Martin counsels health care providers on their most challenging transactions and compliance issues. As co-chair of Katten's national Health Care practice, she represents hospitals and health systems, ancillary services and post-acute care providers, physician groups and life sciences companies. Ultimately, Laura's work on both transactional and compliance matters paves the way for health care providers to successfully navigate risks while achieving business objectives. Toward tha...
Valerie Montague represents a variety of health care providers, digital health companies, senior living facilities, nonprofit trade associations, life sciences companies and vendors of health care providers. Valerie is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US), the preeminent credential in the field of privacy. What do you focus on? I focus my practice on three main areas. HIPAA/Health Information Privacy and Security I assist health care providers and business asso...
Matthew Murer is the Department Chair for the firm's national health care practice. Matt’s personal practice is devoted to counseling long term care, assisted living and senior housing providers, hospitals, blood banks and clinical laboratories. Matt has worked with hundreds of providers in resolving licensing and certification issues, including providing regulatory support for portfolio transactions, especially those with complex change of ownership issues. He has extensive experience ...
Michael W. Peregrine represents corporations, their boards of directors, and individual directors and officers in connection with the full range of governance, fiduciary duty, director liability and leadership issues. Much of Michael’s practice involves advising boards of directors on matters of sensitivity and controversy, often in connection with corporate and fiduciary crises. He is recognized as one of the leading national corporate governance counselors and is a respected interpret...
Kathy Roe, an attorney, is a founding principal of Health Law Consultancy in Chicago. Health Law Consultancy provides strategic legal counsel to enable health industry participants to manage the challenges and capitalize on the opportunities of the evolving health system. Roe’s experience, gained from nearly two decades of successfully representing health industry clients, covers health information technology initiatives; health information privacy, data security and electronic transact...
Jack Rovner, an attorney, is a founding member of Health Law Consultancy. Health Law Consultancy is a Chicago health law boutique that provides strategic legal counsel for the business of health care to enable health industry participants to capitalize on opportunities and manage challenges in the evolving health system. Rovner is Best Lawyers 2014 Chicago health care law "Lawyer of the Year." For four decades, Rovner has represented clients on health law, health reform, antitrust, business s...
Mark Rust serves as the Chicago office managing partner and vice chair of the firm’s Management Committee. A healthcare industry veteran who is dedicated to delivering distinctly unique perspective and depth, Mark’s practice is focused on the transactional, regulatory and medical-legal issues affecting healthcare entities and provider organizations. The immediate past chair of the firm’s national Healthcare Department, Mark has practiced in or written about healthcare law in...
April Schweitzer focuses on corporate and regulatory issues affecting hospitals, health systems and federally qualified health centers and provides counsel regarding clinical integration networks and accountable care organizations. What do you focus on? As a former public health project manager, I relish the opportunity to work with a variety of health care clients to implement strategies that will ultimately impact patients. I am particularly interested in helping clients think strategically...
Julie Seymour represents and counsels banks and borrowers, including hospitals, health systems, educational and cultural institutions and long-term care providers; governmental issuers; underwriters; and trustees in connection with tax-exempt and taxable financings. Since 1990, Julie has been involved in billions of dollars of tax-exempt bond financings, including fixed and variable rate structures, as well as secured and unsecured lending transactions. What do you focus on? In my finance pra...
Neal Shah applies his extensive legal experience in private practice, government service, and health care delivery to help identify practical legal solutions to complex regulatory and transactional problems, including: Helping clients establish initiatives that comply with fraud and abuse laws, including the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, and remain in compliance with those laws Establishing and operating value-based care models including Accountable Care Organizations, Direct Contracti...
Thomas B. Shapira’s practice is focused on transactional and regulatory health care matters and represents numerous physician groups with respect to the formation and/or consolidation of medical practices, physician practice sales and acquisitions, and the establishment of concierge/retainer practices. Tom has worked with health care providers to address numerous operational issues, including the creation of exclusive provider arrangements, hospital/physician joint ventures and preparat...
Kerrin Slattery is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office. Kerrin is the partner-in-charge of the Health Industry Advisory practice in Chicago. Kerrin maintains a general health industry practice, focusing on the representation of hospitals and health systems and other health industry providers and investors. She has significant experience in all aspects of health law transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, affiliatio...
Kyle Vasquez maintains a national health care practice and provides pragmatic legal and compliance support to a wide range of health care clients. He utilizes his background in health law and his prior experience as a health care consultant to develop creative approaches to complex issues. Kyle provides 340B drug pricing program, reimbursement, licensing/certification, DEA and other regulatory support to a broad set of health care entities including academic medical centers, multi-hospital he...
Monica A. Wallace focuses her practice on complex regulatory and transactional counseling to healthcare organizations, including health systems, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, dental providers, integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers, DMEPOS and pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers, home health agencies, and venture capital and private equity firms and their health-related portfolio companies. Monica is a practice area leader for the Healthcare Re...
Sara Avakian focuses her practice in regulatory and operational compliance of health care providers, including long-term care facilities, senior housing entities, hospitals, and laboratories. Clients rely on Sara’s guidance to maintain compliance with state licensing and federal certification regulations. From reviewing and drafting contracts to responding to surveys, Sara assists with resolving regulatory issues with government agencies. Sara assists providers on all operational and re...
Stacey Callaghan counsels digital health organizations, healthcare entities, and private equity clients as they navigate regulatory, compliance, and transactional issues. She focuses on assisting clients in developing telemedicine strategies and documenting multi-state telehealth arrangements given the evolving digital health regulatory landscape. As co-chair of the McDermott Women’s Digital Health Initiative, Stacey focuses on aiding digital health providers of women’s health ser...
Brad Dennis advises healthcare enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including nonprofit and for-profit health systems, academic medical centers, and private equity firms and their platform companies. Brad routinely provides transactional representation to such clients in connection with strategic affiliations, mergers, equity and asset acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactional matters. Read full biography: https://www...
Ethan Domsten is an associate in the Healthcare group. He represents healthcare providers and not-for-profit entities in various transactional and regulatory matters. My focus Healthcare I work with hospitals, physician groups and other healthcare providers in a variety of transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. I also advise clients in the healthcare industry on regulatory compliance matters and navigating the federal and state fraud and abuse laws. I also work on Med...
Aon Hussain is a litigator in Nixon Peabody’s Complex Commercial Disputes practice group. He represents individuals and companies in a variety of commercial disputes in state and federal courts across the country. What do you focus on? I assist my clients at all stages of litigation, from pre-suit analysis to resolution. My broad experience includes the drafting of complaints, motion practice, conducting discovery, and negotiating settlements. I have second-chaired a trial in federal co...
Dayna LaPlante counsels health care providers facing civil and criminal government enforcement actions and litigation. She advises on fraud and abuse matters, including the federal False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark law, and state counterparts as well as Medicare and Medicaid coverage criteria. In doing so, Dayna represents many different types of health care providers, including long-term care providers, home health, and hospice, hospitals and health systems, medical device compa...
Patrick Zanayed represents private equity funds, telehealth start-ups, strategic investors, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health facilities and physician practices in a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/zanayed-patrick/
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