Bruce brings both legal and management perspectives to health care-related legal issues. Bruce's extensive experience as a health care attorney and consultant includes providing representation and services to medical groups, hospitals, academic practice plans and other health care enterprises in a variety of operational, regulatory and transactional matters. Bruce has extensive experience in the application of the Stark self-referral prohibition, Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, tax-exempt organizations, antitrust, and other legal issues to health care business transactions.
Examples of Bruce's health care related experience include:
Providing representation regarding the application of the Federal physician self-referral or "Stark" law to health care business transactions and relationships
Assisting medical groups and other health care organizations in regulatory compliance activities
Advising tax-exempt organizations including hospitals and academic practices regarding physician/hospital collaborative strategies including joint ventures
Facilitating the planning, development and implementation of group practice formation and practice mergers
Assisting with the establishment and on-going operation of physician and hospital-affiliated organizations, including integrated delivery systems, group practices and similar enterprises
Assisting medical groups and hospitals with the development and implementation of physician compensation strategies, practice transition and other arrangements
Assisting tax-exempt organizations in assessing the reasonableness and fair market value of physician compensation levels to promote compliance with exempt organizations and other laws |