The Corner Series Podcast: Integration Over Aggregation in Oral Surgery
ADA Compliance for Medical and Dental Practices: Responding to Inquiries and Investigations
Setting Up Your MSO/DSO Properly: Financial and Legal Guidance Is Essential
Point by Point: The Sale of Dental Practices, Raising Capital and More with Logan Growth Advisors
Five Steps a Healthcare Banker Recommends When Acquiring a Medical or Dental Practice
Legal Steps For Dentists to Follow When Buying or Selling a Practice
Build Out Or Buy? Financing Real Estate Transactions in Healthcare Practices
Structuring DSO/MSO Healthcare Ventures and Practice Acquisitions
Marriage and Divorce Considerations for Health Care Providers
How Private Equity Firms Structure Health Care Mergers and Tax Implications
Health Care Practices: Can They Seek Employee Retention Credits Based on Harm Caused By COVID-19?
Tips for Dentists Starting or Acquiring a Dental Practice
Physician and Dental Practice Branding - A Legal Perspective
DSOs are operating in a more regulation-driven environment, where coverage design, insurance administration and interoperability are no longer side issues. The ADA-led Organized Dentistry Coalition’s push for CMS to preserve...more
LongueVue Capital (LVC) has announced a strategic investment in Apex Dental Laboratory Group in partnership with Swaney Group Capital (SGC). Apex, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waco, Texas, operates a network of 16...more
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed a new law that will allow registered dental hygienists in the state to practice without the direct supervision of a dentist by mid-2027, pursuant to collaborative agreements with...more
Across late December 2025 and early January 2026, multiple developments point to a broad tightening of standards and oversight that directly affects DSOs as they scale. At the industry level, the ADA’s decision to launch a...more
At the end of 2024, we predicted that the healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market would pick up steam in 2025, given the combination of decreasing interest rates, a potential shift in the regulatory landscape with...more
Dan Schulte answers common questions related to dental records in the latest issue of the Michigan Dental Association Journal. Question: Am I required to furnish patient records to a patient upon request? Answer: The...more
DSOs and dental providers are embedding medical care into dental settings while navigating new state-level insurance reforms. U.S. DSOs and multi location dental providers are increasingly experimenting with models that...more
Private equity investment in dental practices and DSOs remains robust, with deal volume notably high in recent years despite broader economic uncertainty. There are several key takeaways from recent PitchBook outlooks and...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed two new bills into law that formalize restrictions on medical and dental practice management platforms operated by private equity groups and hedge funds and increase the...more
Question: I would like to hire a foreign national to work as a dentist in my practice. What is the process from a U.S. immigration perspective? Answer: In order to work in the United States, a foreign national must have...more
The ADA will cut $20 million from its 2025 budget to balance finances and recover from years of deficit spending. These cuts, approved in July, will affect multiple programs, reduce staff, change outreach strategies and lower...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently published a warning letter (Warning Letter) targeting a dental laboratory after a lengthy inspection found that the dental laboratory's operations, which offer...more
Dental service organization (DSO) Aspen Dental has agreed to pay $18.7 million to resolve claims that it secretly shared web user data with Meta and Google, without obtaining users’ consent or informing them....more
As government scrutiny of the healthcare industry intensifies, enforcement agencies are casting wider nets to recover funds based on narrowly interpreted violations. This puts not only healthcare providers but also those...more
“For us to invest in a business and not improve it doesn’t make sense as an investment,” says Trevor Maurer, CEO of OMS360, a Shore Capital-backed dental platform specializing in oral surgery. In this conversation with...more
Question: Over the years, several of my colleagues and I have been the subject of investigations by the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. In most of these cases it’s hard to imagine why LARA is...more
Pennsylvania-based Chord Specialty Dental Partners is under fire after a September 2024 data breach compromised the personal information of over 173,000 individuals. At least seven proposed class action lawsuits have been...more
Indiana currently has a reporting requirement related to health care entity mergers and acquisitions that requires parties to covered health care entity transactions—including Dental Support Organization (“DSO”)...more
Grounded in the OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance and DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, our immersive, three-and-a-half-day, classroom-style Healthcare Basic Compliance Academy equips compliance...more
On Thursday, May 29 at 12:00 PM, Benjamin Malerba and Sean Simensky will present the webinar, “Practice Transitions for the Practicing Dentist.” This lecture is designed to inform dentists of some of the legal and...more
Join us on the HealthLawHotSpot as host Ericka Adler and Michael Brohman, shareholder and member of Roetzel’s Employment Litigation Group, discuss ADA compliance for medical and dental practices. In this episode, you'll learn...more
DSOs have experienced several challenges amid the slowing private equity space in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic and the tightening of the private equity space, however, there are signs of a shift, with a number of...more
ADA Advocating for Fluoridation, Says Medical Devices Should Not Be Subjected to Tariffs - The dental industry and DSOs are experiencing change as both continue to embrace technology, including AI. The political and...more
Our Health Care Group breaks down two California bills (SB 351 and AB 1415) that would regulate private equity’s and hedge funds’ roles in managing health care and dental practices....more
Question: Early in every calendar year our accounts receivable tend to build up due to patients having to pay out of pocket before annual deductibles and co-pays reach their maximums. This typically results in a corresponding...more