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Recent High Profile Matters (Cont.)
• Represented Blue Wolf Capital in its acquisition of National Home Health Care Cor- poration, which provides home health aides; medical, behavioral health and pediatric skilled nursing; rehabilitative therapy; social work; paraprofessional; and staffing ser- vices in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
• Represented Southern California-based Heritage Development Organization in forming a multi-billion dollar joint venture with Trinity Health, the nation’s sec- ond-largest nonprofit hospital system, to move toward global risk and coordinated care.
• Represented Denver-based Greater Colorado Anesthesia in its partnership with U.S. Anesthesia Partners, the nation’s largest anesthesia-focused, single-specialty physi- cian services organization, now with over 1,500 anesthesia providers nationally.
• Obtained a rare early termination of the antitrust waiting period for WellStar Health System in a $575 million acquisition of five metro Atlanta hospitals from Texas-based Tenet Healthcare, making WellStar the largest hospital provider in the Atlanta metro- politan region as well as the Southeastern United States.
• Represented Paladin Healthcare Capital in its management services arrangement with Howard University Hospital.
• Sale of 14-state Medicare Advantage HMO Arcadian to Humana, including complex antitrust approval process.
• Multiple current HMO purchase and sale transactions – Medicare Advantage, Med- icaid, commercial.
• Negotiating large scale, cutting edge coordinated care contracts in states that previ- ously only had fee for service reimbursement contracts.
• Revised national IPA template contract for leading national Medicare payor.
• Multiple multi-million dollar HCC-RAF physician/plan alignment projects.
• Formation and licensing of HMOs.
• Multiple large-scale EHR/EMR contracts for hospital and coordinated care clients.
• Defending multiple U.S. Attorney, state, OIG and ZPIC investigations and false claims matters, including hospitals, surgery centers, hospices and medical groups.
• Structuring of complex commercial ACO arrangements in multiple states.
• Successful client applications for Pioneer and Medicare Shared Savings Plan ACOs.
• Structured and negotiated public-private countywide healthcare alignment initiative that partnered county hospitals and clinics with a privately owned physician network to transition into an integrated delivery system.
• Affiliation of one of the largest anesthesiology groups with healthcare private equity fund Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe to grow national platform company.
• Negotiation of $1 billion pharmacy benefit management agreement.
• $925 million sale of medical device manufacturer OneLambda to Thermo Fisher Sci-
entific.
• Typically 30-40 healthcare merger and acquisition projects in process simultaneously.
Leading Physician
Alignment Practice
• Represent multiple leading payors in determining
and executing physician alignment strategy
• Represented ProHealth Physicians, the largest independent primary care physician organization
in Connecticut, in
a transaction with OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, undertaking an innovative vertical integration strategy
• Represented DaVita in its $4.4 billion acquisition of coordinated care industry leader HealthCare Partners
• Represented PriMed Physicians in its affiliation with Yale New Haven Health System and its affiliate Northeast Medical Group
• Represented more physician groups in transactions with Optum than any other U.S. law firm
• Led 60%+ of major West Coast physician group deals and actively working on multiple projects
in other states, with transactions ranging from $4 million to
$4.4 billion
• Alignment of Blue
Cross plan with leading physician group through commercial ACO structure and aligned risk Medicare
Advantage structure
Healthcare Team
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