Overview
Our Health Care attorneys represent general acute care and psychiatric hospitals, as well as community health centers, nursing homes, home health agencies, ambulatory surgery centers, academic medical centers, substance abuse treatment facilities and urgent care centers. We regularly represent these clients before the Department of Public Health, the Office of Health Care Access, the Department of Social Services and other regulatory bodies, and we serve as corporate counsel to numerous clients involved in joint ventures, corporate reorganizations, financings and compliance matters. We have, for example, provided counsel on the following matters:
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement/fraud and abuse
- Internal and government investigations
- Strategic partnerships and joint ventures
- Certificate of Need (“CON”) proceedings and advice
- Tax-exemption
- Professional discipline and credentialing proceedings
- HIPAA/HITECH Act
- Corporate structure, governance and compliance
- Health information technology (HIT) and technology licensing
- Managed care contracting
- Tax-exempt bond financing
- Advising board members and management on governance matters
- Patient rights and adverse event reporting
- Medical staff credentialing and corrective actions
- Drafting and amending bylaws
- Structuring compliance programs and policies
- Executive employment and severance agreements
- Exclusive provider agreements (e.g., radiology, pathology)
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- 2022
During the past year, we assisted licensed health care facilities in negotiating purchase and sale transactions, restructured medical practice governance structures to accommodate physician departures and disputes, worked with clients and the Connecticut Department of Public Health and Office of Health Strategy on change of ownership and reviewed and negotiated on-boarding agreements with the newly-formed Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange.
Our bankruptcy team successfully transitioned Hebrew HealthCare’s 257 bed nursing facility in West Hartford to a new owner as part of its bankruptcy reorganization process. Hebrew HealthCare and its four affiliates filed for Chapter 11 in August and immediately sought permission from the Bankruptcy Court to sell its skilled nursing facility.
“Access Health CT” is the business name and registered trademark for the Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange – the state’s health insurance marketplace established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most consumers recognize Access Health CT by the bright yellow and orange logo used to introduce the Exchange to the public, but some individuals search for the Exchange on the Internet using terms such as: “Connecticut insurance exchange” or “CT health insurance exchange.”
Our health care attorneys were at the forefront of representing clients in mergers and acquisitions as well as in a host of regulatory matters in the ever-growing ambulatory surgery center sector.
Pullman & Comley’s Health Care practice provided regulatory and contracting advice
and assistance to our hospital clients involved in conducting clinical trials
of new drugs and medical devices, prior to the Federal Drug Administration’s
(FDA) approval.
