In Brief: A Digest of Rural Health Providers Projects

Client Success

Creating rural physician hospital organizations (PHOs).
Assisted rural hospital in negotiating an operating lease with a large healthcare system.
Assisted rural hospital with OIG self-disclosure and favorable settlement of several problematic physician relationships.
Advised on unique governance issues for public rural community hospitals and approvals needed to affiliate with an urban health system.
Advised a rural community hospital with clinically integrating its orthopedic service line through co-management arrangement.
Represented rural hospitals in connection with lobbying efforts to create additional funding opportunities.
Assisted rural hospitals, including critical access hospitals (CAHs), with physician recruitment and retention.
Assisted urban health system in structuring relationship with rural hospitals to develop contracting networks.
Assisted urban health system in responding to RFP for management/leasing arrangements with rural community hospital provider.
Represented creditors committee in successful Chapter 9 proceeding of rural hospital district.
Serving as outside general counsel for numerous CAHs.
Drafted affiliation agreements between CAHs and larger acute care systems and federally qualified health centers.
Created compliance programs for CAHs, including board of directors training.
Assisted rural hospitals and critical access hospitals with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues.
Updated medical staff bylaws.
Counseled a rural hospital with physician disciplinary and medical staff issues.
Created template for physician contracting agreements.
Developed physician alignment strategies.