Areas of Practice

Corporate Law Services for Health Care Clients

In today’s competitive environment, providers must position themselves strategically for the long-term. You may be considering affiliations with other providers or the development of diversification strategies in order to capture new revenue sources. The Johnson, Aceto, Bonner & Prager, LLP team will work with you to assess the options best suited to your situation. Our experience will help you develop a strategy for growth. Our services include the following:

• Affiliations. We will help you evaluate, negotiate and draft mergers, affiliations, networks and acquisitions of other health care entities. We can also guide you through a due diligence process.
  
  
• Management Agreements. We will prepare management service agreements as a method of lowering overhead or as a precursor (or adjunct strategy) to an affiliation or merger.
  
  
• Restructuring for New Revenue Opportunities. We will help you develop a plan to restructure your agency, including, e.g., creation of new entities, systems and spin-offs; formation of independent clinical practices; implementation of telemedicine services to improve efficiency; or development of special programs to serve injured workers or Medicaid populations.
  
  
• Managed Care. We will assist you in developing a systematic strategy for contracting with managed care plans on terms that will allow you to be paid adequately and deliver quality care; we will work with you to negotiate and prepare contracts with plans and other payors.
  
  
• Transactional Compliance. Your transactions will comply with important federal and state laws such as anti-kickback statutes, stark Law, labor laws, antitrust laws, and OSHA standards.
  

We have assisted health care providers in corporate/business law matters as follows:

• Established and helped clients organize numerous professional corporations, LLCs and LLPs to minimize liability for malpractice of partners;
  
  
• Reviewed over 100 employment and shareholder agreements for individual physicians and physician practices;
  
  
• Worked with physician practices to diversify their practices and enhance revenue sources by conducting separate businesses for billing, educational services, research and education institutes, and specialized treatment centers;
  
  
• Set up physician practice and management service in a friefriendly physician mod model;
  
  
• Advised physician practices regularly in risk management matters such as evaluation of patient competency to make medical decisions and patient record disclosure matters;
  
  
• Represented one of the largest multi-specialty faculty group practices in Massachusetts. This practice is affiliated with a major university medical center;

• Worked with physicians in an academic medical center to prevent liability through risk management programs;
  
  
• Served on the Claims Committee of a self-insurance malpractice company affiliated with a major medical center;
  
  
• Served on the Patient Treatment Committee of an academic medical center, drafting clinical policies and advising physicians on medical-ethical problems;
  
  
• Worked with a physician to set up a management service for in-office anesthesia procedures;
  
  
• Assisted physician practices in acquisition of other practices; and
  
  
• Assisted physicians in negotiating and executing a withdrawal agreement that protected them from post-departure liability and resulted in substantial payments as buy-outs.