Services
Offering a Comprehensive Array of Legal Services
Weiss & Zarett, P.C., assists clients with matters concerning almost every aspect of the health care industry. Among the categories of legal services that we offer are those relating to corporate and transactional matters, civil and administrative litigation, healthcare regulatory issues, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, and real estate:
- Formation, organization, purchase, sale and restructuring of business organizations, including professional corporations, business corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies
- Joint ventures involving physicians and other professionals, hospitals and other care facilities, third party payors, management companies, and other participants within the heath care industry
- Litigation/arbitration of commercial disputes, including group practice break-ups, physician buy-outs, restrictive covenants, and physician/employee departures
- Disputes, investigations and proceedings involving medical staff privileging, academic appointments and hospital employment
- Professional licensing, and OPMC/OPD investigations and proceedings
- Regulatory analysis and compliance with federal and state laws affecting the healthcare industry, including those relating to fraud and abuse, kickbacks, Stark, HIPAA, corporate practice and fee-splitting
- Managed care and other third party payor contracting, as well as the negotiation and litigation of payor disputes
- Certificate of need and related Article 28 matters
- Antitrust matters involving the healthcare industry
- Bankruptcy litigation, debt restructuring and workouts, and the rights of secured and unsecured creditors
- Real estate and related transactions
- Employment matters, including the preparation, review and negotiation of employment agreements
- General business and operational matters such as contracting, billing, collection, fee structuring, employee/staffing, and regulatory compliance
- Medicare and Medicaid compliance, audits and appeals
- Not-for-profit and tax-exempt organizations
- Clinical research
- Negotiations, transactions and other matters involving the areas of biotech, e-health, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals
