Legal developments occur at a rapid pace in the healthcare field. These changes make the healthcare provider’s mission more complex. Braun Kendrick assists its healthcare clients in carrying out their functions and responsibilities effectively and efficiently.

Braun Kendrick attorneys have extensive experience in providing legal services to a wide range of healthcare clients such as hospitals, nursing homes, outpatient clinics, home healthcare agencies, clinical laboratories, industrial medicine centers, radiological and other imaging centers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, HMOs and PPOs, and a variety of healthcare joint ventures. Braun Kendrick also represents several hospital associations and joint purchasing groups.

• Experience Highlights
• Certificate of Need (CON) planning, applications and appeals
• Licensure and certification surveys, investigations and administrative proceedings
• Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, consolidations and affiliations
• Venture capital and angel financing as well as capital markets transactions, including registered
• Securities offerings and private placements
• Professional licensing, medical staff and peer review matters
• Compliance with the Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA, as well as other privacy and security laws
• Fraud and abuse, including Stark, and anti-kickback law
• Private and government payor contracting, including Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement issues and disputes
• Risk management counseling
• Corporate compliance plans with emphasis on compliance with healthcare laws and regulations
• Governing and ownership issues, including shareholder and partnership matters
• Antitrust counseling
• Employment agreements and other employment issues, including limitations on competition
• Government contracting and procurement matters
• Licensing, corporate partnering and R&D agreements
• Clinical trials
• Tax exempt organization issues, including private inurnment analysis