PREFACE
ABOUT THE AUTHORS

I. OVERVIEW
II. ANTI-KICKBACK AND SELF-REFERRAL ISSUES
III. TAX EXEMPTION AND TAX-RELATED ISSUES
IV. STATE SELF-REFERRAL ISSUES
V. REIMBURSEMENT
VI. MEDICARE CERTIFICATION, LICENSING, AND CON ISSUES FOR ASCs
VII. ANTITRUST CONSIDERATIONS AFFECTING ASCs.

EXHIBITS
Exhibit 1: ASC Safe-Harbor Regulations of the Anti-Kickback Statute
Exhibit 2: Sample Compliance Plan Cover Letter
Exhibit 3: Sample Operating Agreement
Exhibit 4: Sample Compliance Policy Plan
Exhibit 5: Sample Policy for Antitrust Compliance

 

Scott Becker

Scott Becker is a partner at the Chicago office of McGuire Woods LLP and practices exclusively in the healthcare regulatory and transactional area. He devotes his efforts to surgery center, hospital and healthcare provider related transactions, joint ventures, securities, contracting and regulatory matters. He provides counsel to hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, surgical hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, multi and single specialty medical practices, and a variety of healthcare industry entrepreneurs. He provides service on a national basis to privately held and publicly traded companies relating to healthcare transactional and regulatory matters, including counsel under the Medicare/Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Statute, the Stark Act, and the Internal Revenue Code Sections 501(c)(3) and c(9).
J.D., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989
B.S., University of Illinois, 1986

Sarah Abraham Chacko

Sarah Abraham Chacko practices health care law in Chicago, Illinois.
J.D., University of Illinois
B.A., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Ronald E. Lundeen, Jr.

Ronald E. Lundeen, Jr. practices health care law in Chicago, Illinois.

Elissa Koch Moore

Elissa Koch Moore is an associate at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of McGuire Woods LLP and focuses on corporate services and transactional and regulatory matters for healthcare providers and companies. In this capacity, she concentrates on acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, private offerings of securities, governance and corporate formation issues, and joint ventures. She has counseled ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals, physician groups and other healthcare providers with respect to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse laws, the Stark Act, tax-exemption issues and general healthcare compliance issues.
J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 2004
M.Sc., University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2002
B.S., Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2000

Melissa Szabad

Melissa Szabad is a partner at the Chicago office of McGuire Woods LLP. She counsels and advises clients on an array of corporate and regulatory matters, including healthcare fraud and abuse, compliance, physician self-referral, professional standards, governmental reimbursement, facility licensure and accreditation, formation, merger and acquisition and joint venture transactions.
J.D., DePaul University College of Law, Order of the Coif, Chicago, Illinois, 2000
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Kenyon College, Phi Beta Kappa, Gambier, Ohio, 1996

Gretchen Heinze Townshend

Gretchen Heinze Townshend is an associate at the Chicago office of McGuire Woods LLP and focuses on corporate healthcare transactional work and regulatory matters. Her experience includes representation of various types of healthcare providers including hospitals, health systems, dialysis facilities, multi and single specialty medical practices, specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and a variety of healthcare industry entrepreneurs, in sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate matters, contracting, securities, and regulatory matters.
J.D., University of Notre Dame Law School, South Bend, Indiana, 2004
Executive Editor, Notre Dame Law Review
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 2001

Amber McGraw Walsh

Amber McGraw Walsh is a partner at the Chicago office of McGuire Woods LLP and focuses on corporate healthcare transactional work and regulatory matters. Her experience includes representation of various types of healthcare providers including hospitals, health systems, dialysis facilities, multi- and single-specialty medical practices, specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and a variety of healthcare industry entrepreneurs, in sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate matters, contracting, securities, and regulatory matters.
J.D., Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, 2002
B.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1999

American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)

Leading health law to excellence through education, information, and dialogue, the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) is the nation's largest, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to legal issues in the healthcare field. AHLA provides a wide variety of resources to address the issues faced by law firms, government, in-house counsel and academia and those who represent the entire spectrum of the health industry.

 

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