We have extensive experience in sophisticated transactional, regulatory, licensure, reimbursement and general corporate counseling for home care and hospice clients. We work with both for profit and nonprofit providers, and our clients include the largest provider of home health services in Alabama.
The firm’s Home Care Services practice focuses on counseling national and local companies that provide services in a non-institutional settings, or are looking to such services as part of an expansion of their existing operations. These include providers of traditional home health services, as well as PACE (Program of All inclusive Care for the Elderly) programs, adult daycare services, personal services for seniors, and similar support services. Our attorneys also assist health care providers who are using emerging technologies to allow seniors with care needs to continue to live independently. Our attorneys have experience advising these clients on operational and regulatory matters, including governance, fraud and abuse, and state and federal anti-kickback and self-referral issues. We routinely help structure employment agreements, professional services agreements, medical directorships, leases and other transactions. We also assist with federal and state licensure and certification. In addition to this operational work, we have experience in the acquisition and financing of home care organizations, ranging from small independent operators to the sale of larger groups of providers from within a healthcare system.
We have extensive experience in sophisticated transactional, regulatory, licensure, reimbursement and general corporate counseling for home care and hospice clients. We work with both for profit and nonprofit providers, and our clients include the largest provider of home health services in Alabama.
The firm’s Home Care Services practice focuses on counseling national and local companies that provide services in a non-institutional settings, or are looking to such services as part of an expansion of their existing operations. These include providers of traditional home health services, as well as PACE (Program of All inclusive Care for the Elderly) programs, adult daycare services, personal services for seniors, and similar support services. Our attorneys also assist health care providers who are using emerging technologies to allow seniors with care needs to continue to live independently. Our attorneys have experience advising these clients on operational and regulatory matters, including governance, fraud and abuse, and state and federal anti-kickback and self-referral issues. We routinely help structure employment agreements, professional services agreements, medical directorships, leases and other transactions. We also assist with federal and state licensure and certification. In addition to this operational work, we have experience in the acquisition and financing of home care organizations, ranging from small independent operators to the sale of larger groups of providers from within a healthcare system.
For Hospice clients, our attorneys are experienced in dealing with the unique issues involved in providing palliative care for patients, as well as caring for patients’ family members who may be facing end of life decisions. We have worked with all types of hospice providers, including providers operating free-standing residential hospices, leasing separate units, managing palliative care in another provider’s building, or providing care to individuals in their own homes. Whether assessing the criteria for licensure or certificate of need for providing hospice services, navigating the challenges of the reimbursement systems, responding to survey and licensure problems, advising a provider under scrutiny by the Federal government, or advising a provider as to the legal issues involved in caring for a patient who is no longer legally competent, our attorneys have the experience to assist with the various legal issues confronting hospice providers.