Carmody & Torrance health care lawyers routinely provide advice to hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers with respect to a wide variety of health care issues. Routine counseling to Carmody & Torrance health care clients includes, among other things, advice with respect to day-to-day operational issues and contract relationships complying with Stark II, Medicare Fraud and Abuse, and tax exemption laws that apply to a wide variety of tax-exempt health care organizations. Whether representing hospitals or other health care providers, Carmody & Torrance encourages each of its health care clients to be mindful that business relationships comply with those laws.
Carmody & Torrance frequently provides advice to health care clients regarding the structure and governance of ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers and other joint ventures; physician recruiting and the incentives that are permissible under state and federal law; negotiation of and dispute resolution among owners of physician practices; and ancillary joint ventures in which the physicians and other health care providers are involved. One of the significant strengths of the Carmody & Torrance health care lawyers is that they are skilled business lawyers as well as health care specialists.
Carmody & Torrance is recognized as one of the state’s leading firms in the area of tax-exempt and health care finance. The firm has served as counsel to hospitals and other health care entities in relation to tax-exempt financing and leasing, as well as in traditional financing transactions.
Representative matters include:
- Representing a community hospital in a successful application with another community hospital for CON approval of a full cardiac program.
- Representing a cardiology group as potential investor and participant in a freestanding PET/CT Imaging Center.
- Representing a Connecticut health care nonprofit agency in a request to the Connecticut Attorney General to investigate the use of donated funds received by a client’s former affiliate.
- Representing a community hospital in imaging joint ventures and in its opposition before the Office of Health Care Access with respect to new imaging services in the region.
- Representing a chronic disease hospital in the establishment of a “hospital within a hospital” located at a community hospital.
- Representing a physician practice in its formation of a surgery center.
- Representing a hospital system in its acquisition of a skilled nursing facility.
- Representing a community hospital in its investment and participation in a multi-hospital offshore captive insurance arrangement.