Regulatory Compliance
The movement toward Value Based Healthcare is part of a larger paradigm shift in healthcare delivery, focusing on an integrated and streamlined patient experience. In our practice, this has most impacted our partner’s regulatory compliance and contracting arrangements for professionals.
Regulatory Compliance
Healthcare is, appropriately, one of the most heavily regulated industries in the country, with oversight leveled by numerous governmental, quasi-governmental, and regulatory bodies. For first line providers, this often means navigating HIPAA, Stark Laws, Anti-Kickback Statutes, and Guidelines for Participation. But, because the hospital experience is often immersive, regulatory compliance also extends to specialty functions like security, food safety, pest control, and biohazard disposal. We assist in complying with edicts from the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Joint Commission, and various state and local bodies.
Provider Contracting
The business side of healthcare is constantly adapting models to promote efficiencies without sacrificing quality of care. The proliferation of Advanced Practice Clinician Arrangements, Professional Service Agreements, technology agreements, and practice consolidations speaks to healthcare’s struggles for efficiency. Both as outside counsel for transactional work, and in-house counsel for managing physician and practice contracting, we are experienced in negotiating, drafting, and evaluating a myriad of professional relationships.