Physicians & Physician Groups

Sonnenschein's Health Care Group attorneys have extensive experience representing physicians and physician groups in connection with a wide variety of health care regulatory, fraud and abuse, transactional, corporate, litigation and public policy matters, including numerous single- and multi-specialty group practices.  For example:

• Firm attorneys regularly counsel physicians and physician groups with respect to a vast array of regulatory matters, including Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues, medical staff activities and hospital bylaws.  We also counsel clients regarding malpractice insurance issues, peer review activities, immunity and National Practitioner Data Bank issues, HIPAA privacy and security compliance and disciplinary activities.
• Health Care Group attorneys advise physicians and physician groups with respect to the fraud and abuse implications of their various business arrangements, particularly under federal and state anti-kickback, physician self-referral, fee-splitting and related laws and regulations.
• Sonnenschein attorneys handle sophisticated transactions on behalf of physicians and physician groups, including physician practice mergers and acquisitions and physician-hospital joint ventures.  We also handle day-to-day corporate governance and contracting issues for physician and physician group clients, including practice formation, employment matters, exclusive hospital contracting, managed care contracting and billing and collection issues.
• Our health care attorneys have specific legal expertise relating to a number of medical specialties, including radiology, oncology and cardiology (e.g., cardiovascular catheterization laboratory development, heart hospitals and other cutting-edge cardiovascular issues).