Health Care

"Leading Lawyer", Illinois
"Super Lawyer", Illinois
Martindale-Hubbell "AV" Peer Review Rated
With Holmstrom & Kennedy since 1974

Holmstrom & Kennedy has been representing the health care industry for over thirty years - from hospitals to physician group practices, other provider entities and individual practitioners. The issues facing health care providers on a daily basis include highly complex laws and regulatory schemes such as fraud and abuse (Anti-Kickback, Stark, CMPs), and HIPAA privacy and security that change and evolve constantly. Our Health Care Group has been there every step of the way as these laws have been implemented and government regulators have enunciated interpretations and enforcement priorities. We counsel health care providers daily on transactions and strategies that must be carried out carefully in order to comply with these dynamic and fluid laws. Because health care providers also face all of the operational challenges of any business, attorneys from all of Holmstrom & Kennedy’s practice groups bring their knowledge and experience to assist our health care clients - from employment, business transactions, construction and real estate, technology licensing and development, to litigation.

We advise our health care clients regularly in the following areas:

Regulatory Matters

fraud and abuse and anti-referral laws (e.g., Anti-Kickback and Stark)
corporate compliance plans
regulatory audits and investigations
EMTALA
health facility licensure
medical staff governance, credentialing and privileging
Medicare conditions of participation
HIPAA and state privacy and security

Business Transactions and Operations

mergers and acquisitions
joint ventures
strategic alliances
hospital-physician contracts
physician group practice formation
technology licensing
professional employment law advice
purchase and sale of physician practices

Tax-Exemption Issues

corporate structure
governance, fiduciary duties and conflicts of interest
organizational documents and amendments
tax-exemption applications and other federal or state filings
intermediate sanctions
executive compensation
tax-exempt financing

Other Attorneys in this Practice Group


ROBERTA L. HOLZWARTH "Leading Lawyer", Illinois "Super Lawyer", Illinois Martindale "AV" Rating With H&K since 1983	AARON W. BROOKS "Leading Lawyer", Illinois With H&K since 1996	KRISTINE PIHL YOUMAN "Leading Lawyer", Illinois With H&K since 1999


AMANDA J. ADAMS With H&K since 2005	DANIEL P. HISER With H&K since 2007	ELIZABETH A. DRANGER With H&K since 2008