Keeping abreast of change can be challenging, as well as time-consuming. The situation in an academic medical center (AMC) is exacerbated by the fast pace of innovation, complex governance structures and a regulatory environment that is seemingly always in transition. You need Dentons to help you remain at the forefront of developments.

Our team has extensive experience in advising AMCs and their component medical schools, teaching hospitals, faculty practice plans, foundations, alliances, cooperatives and group purchasing organizations on a wide variety of legal issues.

The Firm counsels AMCs with respect to Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health care programs, such as issues related to indirect medical education/graduate medical education, provider-based status, provider certification, conditions of participation, contracting, coverage and reimbursement (including appeals before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board), and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act requirements. Dentons also handles sophisticated corporate transactions on behalf of AMCs, including mergers, divestitures, stock and asset acquisitions, affiliations, joint operating agreements and joint ventures.

Rely on Dentons to ensure that your various business arrangements, hospital-physician alignment strategies, contracts, marketing initiatives and investment strategies comply with federal and state anti-kickback, physician self-referral, reassignment, fee-splitting, beneficiary inducement, gainsharing, data privacy and security, and related laws and regulations.

Look to our lawyers for innovative business and legal solutions across the academic medical centers sector, including:

• Antitrust and competition
• Bankruptcy and insolvency
• Clinical research and clinical trials
• Corporate and transactional matters
• Coverage and reimbursement
• Employee benefits and executive compensation
• Fraud and abuse and corporate compliance
• Government relations and public policy
• Litigation
• Revenue cycle management
• Medicare secondary payer and other coordination of benefits
• Graduate medical education
• Physicians at teaching hospitals audits
• Privacy and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance
• Public and private finance
• Taxation