Healthcare Law

Full-spectrum healthcare counsel for physicians, provider groups, platforms, operators, and the investors behind them — regulatory, transactional, and enforcement, across Sarasota, Tampa, and all of Florida.

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Practice Areas

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Regulatory & Compliance

The federal and Florida regulatory perimeter that governs every healthcare business — the foundation on which every other practice area rests.

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Stark Law & Anti-Kickback Statute

Structural analysis, safe harbor and exception navigation, compensation design, and transaction-adjacent opinions under federal fraud and abuse law.

False Claims Act & Billing Compliance

Billing and coding compliance review, voluntary disclosure analysis, and qui tam exposure assessment for providers and platform operators.

HIPAA Privacy & Security

HIPAA privacy, security, and breach notification compliance. Business associate agreements, data-use agreements, and cross-state data flow analysis.

Florida CPOM & Fee-Splitting

Corporate practice of medicine compliance, fee-splitting analysis under Florida law, and structural remediation of legacy arrangements.

AHCA & DOH Licensure

Healthcare facility licensure, change-of-ownership filings, and Florida Department of Health board-level compliance for providers and platforms.

Compliance Program Development

Design and implementation of corporate compliance programs, policies, training, and audit infrastructure aligned to OIG and AHCA expectations.

Regulatory Due Diligence

Pre-acquisition and post-acquisition compliance review. Red-flag identification, risk quantification, and transaction-document risk allocation.

OIG Advisory Opinions & Guidance

Analysis of OIG advisory opinions, fraud alerts, and special fraud bulletins. Advisory opinion request strategy for novel arrangements.

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Corporate & Transactional

Formation-to-exit transactional counsel for healthcare operators, founders, and sponsors — with $300M+ in aggregate deal volume.

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Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions

Platform formations, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations, and strategic divestitures. Buy-side and sell-side representation with integrated regulatory diligence.

MSO & PC Structuring

HoldCo / MSO / Professional Corporation architectures compliant with Florida's corporate-practice doctrine. Friendly-PC governance and stock transfer restrictions.

Physician Group Transactions

Practice acquisitions, integrations, consolidations, and joint ventures with health systems and platform operators. Founder rollover and retention design.

Joint Ventures & Strategic Affiliations

Ambulatory surgery centers, ancillary service JVs, and multi-party affiliations. Governance, economics, and regulatory overlay.

Entity Formation & Governance

PLLC, LLC, and multi-tier entity formation. Operating agreements, shareholder agreements, tiered equity classes, vesting, drag-along, tag-along, and exit waterfalls.

Private Equity Sponsor Representation

Sponsor-side counsel on platform acquisitions and portfolio company matters. RWI-aligned diligence, transaction structuring, and post-closing regulatory support.

Tax Structuring & Deal Planning

Tax-informed transaction structuring, recapitalizations, equity rollovers, and reorganizations. Integrated corporate-and-tax counsel for healthcare M&A.

Equity Rollovers & Recapitalizations

Founder and physician-owner rollover equity structuring, sponsor recapitalizations, secondary transactions, and liquidity event planning.

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Commercial Contracting & Operations

The day-to-day commercial and operational infrastructure of a regulated healthcare business — the contracts, policies, and relationships that make it run.

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Management Services Agreements

MSA drafting, negotiation, and renegotiation between MSOs and professional entities. Fee structures, scope of services, termination protections, and regulatory alignment.

Commercial & Vendor Contracting

Vendor agreements, supply contracts, consulting arrangements, and service agreements tailored to the healthcare operating environment.

Technology & Software Licensing

EHR agreements, SaaS licensing, technology services agreements, and software procurement — with HIPAA business associate and data security overlay.

Medical Director & Consulting Agreements

Medical director agreements, physician advisory arrangements, and consulting structures — with compensation documentation calibrated to Stark and AKS safe harbors.

Medical Staff & Credentialing

Medical staff bylaws, credentialing standards, peer review and fair hearing matters, and privileging disputes.

Policies, Procedures & Training

Written policies, employee handbooks, compliance training programs, and documentation infrastructure for clinical and administrative operations.

Day-to-Day Operational Counsel

Routine legal questions, contract review, policy interpretation, vendor escalations, and the hundreds of small matters that accumulate in a healthcare operation.

Outside General Counsel Services

Fractional general counsel engagements for healthcare operators — flat-fee, per-transaction, and retainer structures available. Functions as an extension of the in-house team.

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Labor & Employment

Workforce counsel for healthcare employers — from physician employment and compensation to the full range of HR, labor, and workplace matters unique to the industry.

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Physician Employment & Compensation

Physician employment agreements, compensation models (productivity, value-based, and hybrid), Stark-compliant structures, and retention design.

Restrictive Covenants & Non-Competes

Non-compete, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure covenants under Florida law (Fla. Stat. § 542.335). Enforcement, defense, and covenant drafting calibrated to healthcare realities.

Healthcare Workforce Management

Non-physician employment agreements, independent contractor classifications, and workforce structuring across clinical and administrative staff.

Discrimination, Harassment & Retaliation

Counseling and defense on Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FCRA, and related claims. Pre-litigation risk assessment, EEOC responses, and internal investigations.

Wage & Hour Compliance

FLSA classification, overtime exposure analysis, on-call time, and wage-and-hour compliance tailored to clinical workforces.

Employee Handbooks & Workplace Policies

Healthcare-specific handbooks, social media and confidentiality policies, drug-free workplace programs, and HIPAA-aligned workforce policies.

Workplace Investigations

Privilege-protected investigations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and compliance concerns involving clinical and administrative personnel.

Separation, Severance & Releases

Executive separations, physician departures, severance agreements, and release structuring — with particular attention to post-employment restrictive covenants.

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Reimbursement, Insurance & Managed Care

The payor side of healthcare — government and commercial reimbursement, managed care contracting, and the disputes and audits that follow.

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Payor Contracting & Network Participation

Commercial payor agreements, provider participation contracts, fee schedule negotiation, and network arrangements for providers and platforms.

Medicare & Medicaid Enrollment

Provider enrollment, revalidation, reassignment of benefits, change-of-ownership reporting, and CMS/AHCA program integrity compliance.

Managed Care Agreements

MCO and health plan contracting, at-risk arrangements, carve-out agreements, and managed care dispute resolution.

Value-Based & At-Risk Arrangements

Value-based care contracts, ACO participation agreements, capitation and bundled-payment structures, and shared-savings arrangements.

Claims, Appeals & Recoupment

Denied claims appeals, overpayment demands, extrapolation challenges, and administrative hearings before commercial payors and government programs.

Payor Audits & Program Integrity

RAC, UPIC, MAC, and commercial payor audit defense. Pre-audit compliance review, response strategy, and post-audit recoupment negotiation.

Insurance Coverage & Risk Allocation

Malpractice and E&O coverage analysis, D&O policies, cyber liability, and coverage disputes for healthcare entities and their principals.

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Digital Health, Telehealth & AI

Emerging-technology counsel for virtual-care platforms, DTC health models, and AI-enabled clinical and operational tools.

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Telehealth Platform Structuring

Multi-state physician network design, virtual-care entity architecture, and state-by-state licensure and CPOM analysis for scalable telehealth operations.

DTC Lab & Diagnostic Models

Direct-to-consumer lab testing, diagnostic platforms, and consumer-facing health offerings. CLIA, state testing requirements, and ordering-physician structures.

SaMD & FDA Classification

Software as a Medical Device analysis, FDA classification strategy, and regulatory positioning to manage or avoid SaMD categorization for digital health products.

AI in Clinical & Operational Use

AI deployment counsel for healthcare operators — clinical decision support, revenue cycle, and administrative AI. Regulatory, HIPAA, and professional-liability risk allocation.

AI Transaction Provisions

Buy-side and sell-side AI-specific transaction language: representations, covenants, indemnities, escrow carve-outs, RWI alignment, and diligence frameworks for AI-embedded targets.

Digital Health Commercial Contracts

Platform terms, user agreements, physician-platform relationships, and commercial contracting tailored to regulated digital health business models.

Clinical Research & Data Governance

Clinical trial agreements, research compliance, de-identification and data governance frameworks, and commercialization of health data.

Multi-State Licensing & IMLC

Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC) credentialing, multi-state physician licensing coordination, and fifty-state regulatory surveys for national telehealth and DTC platforms.

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Healthcare Real Estate

Real estate counsel calibrated to the regulatory realities of healthcare — where every lease and acquisition touches Stark, AKS, and AHCA licensure.

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Medical Office & Clinical Leasing

Medical office leases, clinical space subleases, and tenant-side negotiation. Fair market value documentation, commercial reasonableness analysis, and Stark-compliant lease structures.

ASC & Clinical Facility Real Estate

Ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care facilities, and specialty clinical spaces. Build-out negotiation, tenant improvement allocation, and licensure coordination with AHCA.

Acquisitions & Dispositions

Medical office building acquisitions, practice-owned real estate divestitures, and sale-leaseback structures for physician groups and platform operators.

Physician-Landlord Arrangements

Physician-owned real estate leased to hospital systems or health platforms. Fraud and abuse overlay, referral-source analysis, and documentation of arm's-length terms.

Hospital & Health System Real Estate

Hospital campus leases, affiliated physician office arrangements, and system-level real estate portfolios. Regulatory structuring and long-term strategic counsel.

Development & Build-to-Suit

Ground-up medical development, build-to-suit transactions, and construction agreements for provider-occupied space.

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Government Investigations & Enforcement

Representation and counseling for healthcare entities facing federal and state regulatory scrutiny — from early signals through resolution.

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Subpoena & CID Response

Grand jury subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and administrative subpoenas from DOJ, HHS-OIG, state AGs, and AHCA. Scope negotiation and privilege protection.

False Claims Act Counseling

FCA risk assessment and counseling. Early-stage evaluation, parallel proceedings coordination, and strategic response to qui tam exposure.

Internal Investigations

Board-directed and management-directed internal investigations of billing, coding, referral, or compliance concerns. Privilege-protected workstreams and remediation planning.

Voluntary Disclosures

OIG Self-Disclosure Protocol, CMS Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP), and state-level voluntary disclosure submissions.

AHCA & State Enforcement

AHCA survey deficiencies, plans of correction, licensure actions, and Florida Department of Health disciplinary matters.

Corporate Integrity Agreement Compliance

Implementation and ongoing compliance with Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIAs) and Integrity Agreements (IAs). Independent review organization coordination.

Pre-Enforcement Counseling

Proactive structural and compliance counseling for entities identified as enforcement priorities or operating in high-risk segments.

Who We Serve

The firm represents the full range of healthcare operators, investors, and providers — from solo physicians and physician groups to PE-backed platforms and hospital systems. Each sector brings its own regulatory framework, transactional conventions, and operating cadence.

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Physicians & Physician Groups

Solo practitioners, specialty groups, and multi-site practices. Employment, formation, transactions, and day-to-day counsel.

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Private Equity Sponsors

PE funds and healthcare-focused investors. Platform acquisitions, portfolio company support, and regulatory diligence.

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MSOs & Management Platforms

Management services organizations, multi-state platforms, and friendly-PC architectures across specialties.

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Ambulatory Surgery Centers

ASC formation, joint ventures, physician syndication, and licensure. Stark-compliant ownership and operational structuring.

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DSOs & Dental Platforms

Dental service organizations and dental practice platforms. CPOM-compliant structures across multi-state footprints.

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Behavioral Health

Behavioral and mental health providers, substance use disorder facilities, and telepsychiatry platforms.

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Hospitals & Health Systems

Acute care hospitals, specialty hospitals, and integrated health systems. Strategic transactions and operational counsel.

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Urgent Care Centers

Urgent care operators and multi-site networks. Licensure, lease structuring, physician staffing, and transactional support.

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IPAs & Clinically Integrated Networks

Independent practice associations, ACOs, and clinically integrated networks. Formation, governance, and payor contracting.

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DMEPOS Providers

Durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies companies. Medicare enrollment, accreditation, and compliance.

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Direct Primary Care

DPC practices and membership-based primary care models. Subscription structures, Florida regulatory framework, and scaling.

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Healthcare Nonprofits

501(c)(3) healthcare organizations, community health providers, and tax-exempt health entities. Governance and tax-exempt compliance.

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