- Hospital/physician contracts
- Physician and other health care provider employment contracts and independent contractor arrangements
- Physician recruitment contracts
- Vendor agreements
- Electronic health record and information systems
- Supply chain
- Services
- Practice acquisition contracts
- Managed care and third-party payor contracts
- Employment agreements for executives and staff
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- Counseling and advisement of governance boards
- Compliance
- Corporate compliance plans
- Statutory and regulatory compliance policies and audits
- HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance policies, training, and breach management
- Stark
- Anti-kickback
- EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act)
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures involving physicians, hospitals, and other entities in the health care industry, and compliance with relevant laws, e.g., Stark (physician self-referral), Anti-kickback and antitrust
- Physician integration models
- Corporate/governance bylaws
- Entity selection and restructuring
- Finance
- Internal investigations
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- Facility licensure
- Professional licensure
- State, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program accreditation issues
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- Bylaws and regulations
- Credentialing policies and procedures
- Peer review including fair hearing plans, investigations, and hearings
- Restructuring of Medical Staff to address increased emphasis on quality and utilization
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- Medicare & Medicaid denials and appeals
- Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC)
- Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC)
- Medicaid Integrity Contractor (MIC)
- Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)
- Third-party payor and managed care denials and appeals
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