Academic Medical Centers

Academic Medical Centers

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Keeping abreast of change can be challenging as well as time-consuming. Academic medical centers are challenged every day by the fast pace of innovation, complex governance structures, and a regulatory environment that is seemingly always in transition. These shifting conditions require expert counsel, especially when there are corporate transactions requiring close scrutiny.

Dentons helps you remain at the forefront of developments. Partnering with us means you have access to legal professionals who care about your business and understand the myriad factors, influences and dynamics that impact academic medical centers. Our team of lawyers helps you manage change and seize opportunities to take advantage of a shifting competitive landscape.

Together we can stay on top of compliance issues, legal matters relating to medical research and the complexities around Medicare and Medicaid programs. We work with you to track modifications to state health care programs, federal payer initiatives, new research and grant opportunities presented by governmental agencies, Internal Revenue Service laws and regulations, and Congressional reforms. We help your faculty practice groups comply with applicable laws and understand that physician employment strategies require specialized management. You also get a commercially aware firm to assist you on transactions such as mergers, divestitures and joint ventures.

Our lawyers advise academic medical centers and schools, teaching hospitals, foundations, alliances and group purchasing organizations.

Experience

McGraw Medical Center of Northwestern University: Serving as outside general counsel to one of the US’s largest and most complex graduate medical education programs. We work with the Center on issues related to corporate governance, compliance with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) standards, labor and benefits issues, risk management and general operational matters.
Major state university: Representing all of the teaching hospitals, other facilities and multiple faculty practice plans of a major state university with operations in multiple cities. Our task is to serve as principal outside transactional, regulatory and fraud and abuse counsel on all matters arising from the university's many healthcare providers.
The University of Arizona Health Network: Representing three hospitals and 40 clinics in connection with corporate governance matters involving the integrated healthcare system. Responsibilities include corporate governance design and implementation, regulatory counseling and general board level advice.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center: Directing patent prosecution and counseling involving medical and life sciences technology for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.