On April 3, 2024, Senators Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), chaired a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security field hearing titled,...more
4/11/2024
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Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
For-Profit Corporations ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
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Healthcare ,
Healthcare Workers ,
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Licenses ,
Medicare ,
Private Equity ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Request For Information ,
Transparency
In this episode, partner Jana Kolarik of Foley’s Health Care Practice Group interviews partner Roger Strode of Foley’s Health Care and Transactional Practice Groups and Michael Ramey, managing principal of PYA's Strategic and...more
10/17/2023
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Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Compliance ,
Due Diligence ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Indemnity ,
Private Equity ,
Recapitalization ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
Stark Law
Physician recapitalization transactions are complex by nature and often present myriad issues. At Foley, in our representation of both investors in, and sellers of, physician practices, we note how often tax issues become...more
Private equity investors are showing increased interest in the cardiology space. Why? Likely several reasons. The United States is aging, and becoming more obese, and the need for cardiologists will increase as a result. This...more
As deal lawyers we, at Foley, continue to see high volumes of health care private equity (PE) backed platform transactions. While the number of deals in the space is down, year over year, the industry is still on pace to...more
Physician consolidation continued on a robust pace this past year, despite, or maybe because of, the Pandemic. Physician-owned orthopedic practices appear to be no exception to this trend. Interestingly, orthopedic...more
1/13/2022
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Anti-Kickback Statute ,
CARES Act ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Durable Medical Equipment ,
EBITDA ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Industry Consolidation ,
Investment ,
Medical Billing Codes ,
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) ,
Physicians ,
Private Equity ,
Provider Relief Fund ,
Stark Law
Welcome to Foley & Lardner LLP’s Health Care MarketTrends. In this issue, we examine private equity investment in specialty areas of the health care industry, specifically dermatology and orthopedics....more
9/17/2019
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Audits ,
Billing ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coding ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Investors ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Private Equity ,
Private Equity Firms ,
Specialty Healthcare ,
Stark Law
We have posted previously in Healthcare Law Today related to physician private equity transactions, commonly called “recapitalizations.” Most of the discussions have been about the “who,” the “why” and the “how” of these...more
As noted in previous Health Care Law Today blog posts, we have seen an uptick in private equity recapitalization transactions in orthopedics. We expect this trend to continue, and to pick up pace, as the economy remains...more
1/8/2019
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Joint Venture ,
Physicians ,
Private Equity ,
Private Equity Funds ,
Recapitalization ,
Stark Law
The past decade has seen a tremendous amount of private equity investment in physician practice recapitalizations, primarily in hospital-based practices such as anesthesiology and radiology as well as “retail medicine...more
6/4/2018
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Ancillary Agreements ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
BPCI ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
EBITDA ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Investment ,
Investors ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Private Equity ,
Private Equity Funds ,
Stark Law
From hospital expansions with large insurance deals to physician group consolidation, the continued outlook for health care mergers and acquisitions in 2016 is expected to be rampant. The following six factors will likely be...more