- Represented Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, in its affiliation with UPMC.
- Represented numerous clients in forming joint ventures to operate ambulatory emergency centers, cancer centers, imaging centers, home health agencies and hospitals.
- Successfully represented a hospital before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals regarding Medicare reimbursement matters.
- Defended many providers in connection with Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse investigation and proceedings, including chemical, civil and administrative cases.
- Handled UPMC relations with local, state and federal government.
- Assisted in the establishment of a Disaster Management Center, where we managed the direction and external relationships with local, state and federal disaster management agencies.
- Defended numerous providers and individuals in many state and federal False Claim Act matters.
- Assisted Catholic Health East in connection with various tax-exempt financing transactions.
- Represented South Side Hospital, Braddock Medical Center and Aliquippa Hospital in their sales to UPMC.
- Obtained accreditation for a Durable Medical Equipment Supplier.
- Assisted a pharmaceutical company in the acquisition of a specialty pharmacy.
- Represented a national care provider in connection with several joint ventures for dialysis clinics.
- Represented Frick Hospital, Mt. Pleasant, PA, in its affiliation with Westmoreland Regional Hospital, Greensburg, PA.
- Represented Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia its multimillion-dollar acquisition of and long-term academic affiliation agreement with Wills Eye Hospital which included its inpatient and ophthalmology residency programs.
- Assisted in hospital-physician contracting and various physician practice acquisitions.
- Represented numerous hospitals and their medical staff in peer review proceedings, including due process hearings.
- Represented Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, in its affiliation with UPMC.
- Represented Montgomery Hospital Medical Center, Norristown, PA, in connection with its affiliation with Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, PA.
- Represented the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in its affiliation with UPMC, which resulted in a new $750 million new pediatric hospital and research center.
- Represented Allegheny Valley School, Pittsburgh, PA, in its sale to Northwest Human Services, Philadelphia, PA.
HEALTHCARE
To say the healthcare industry faces "change" today is a seismic understatement. Never before has a groundswell of breakthrough technologies, conflicting legislation, unchartered regulation and an onslaught of completely new competitors - converged all at once to force a transformative upheaval of change.