Attorneys and Counselors
Practice Areas
Health Care Law
Kerr, Russell and Weber attorneys work with a variety of health care clients. Our work in the health care arena over the past 60 years has given us broad experience and a well developed sense of the relationships between physicians, insurers, health facilities and patients. We counsel physicians, hospitals and other health care providers, managed care interests, durable medical equipment providers, major groups in organized medicine, and medical staffs. We also counsel assisted living centers, nursing homes and homes for the aged. Our representation of health care clients also includes administrative proceedings, and licensure and litigation services. Additionally, we specialize in the formation and representation of alternative risk transfer entities for health care clients, including captive insurance companies, risk retention groups and other alternative insurance structures.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Antitrust and health care mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
- Certificate of Need (CON)
- Change of Ownership (CHOW)
- Compliance and enforcement, including anti-kickback, self-disclosure counseling and corporate integrity agreements (CIA), fraud/abuse, HIPAA, and self-referral (Stark)
- Corporate practice of medicine, including corporate and retail medical clinic formation
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
- Financing transactions
- Health care contracting and managed care
- Health care facility and professional license and accreditation matters
- Health care mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
- Hospital and medical staff matters
- Joint ventures
- Long-term care facility matters
- Medicare and Medicaid provider and supplier enrollment, certification and compliance
- Reimbursement, billing and claims, and third-party payor and payment matters
- Risk retention groups, captive insurance companies and other alternative risk transfer entities
- Post payment audits
- Professional, facility and institutional liability and risk management
- Peer review and professional discipline
- Skilled nursing facility (SNF) certification and survey compliance
- Michigan Medical Records Act and HIPAA Compliance