Healthcare Regulatory & Transactional Advisory
LawCorp advises physicians, medical groups, and healthcare investors on the regulatory and structural questions that determine how their businesses are built, governed, and grown — with the same BigLaw-caliber rigor and boutique responsiveness that defines every engagement we take.
Healthcare is among the most heavily regulated industries in the country, and the rules do not sit quietly in the background. They dictate who may own a practice, how physicians may be paid, how affiliated entities may transact with one another, and what must be reported and to whom. We help clients design structures that work commercially and hold up regulatorily — and then keep those structures compliant as the business changes.
Our work includes the formation and governance of professional corporations and professional LLCs, management services organization (MSO) structures, and the administrative and services agreements that connect them — drafted to respect corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting restrictions rather than paper over them. We advise on the federal fraud and abuse framework that applies nationwide, including the Stark Law's self-referral prohibitions and exceptions, the Anti-Kickback Statute and its safe harbors, and the tax consequences that travel with both. We advise on the state regimes layered on top of it — state self-referral and "mini-Stark" statutes, professional licensing and entity-ownership requirements, and the health, education, and corporate filing and reporting rules that shape how a practice and its MSO can be organized in a given jurisdiction. We design physician compensation and productivity bonus arrangements that stay inside permissible limits, and we structure ownership rebalancing among shareholders — through equity adjustments, affiliated entities, and MSO-level economics — so that the result is defensible on both the regulatory and the tax side. We also handle HIPAA and business associate compliance, healthcare transactions and joint ventures, and ownership disputes within medical practices.
What clients most often bring us, though, is not a discrete legal question. It is a group of partners who need to reallocate ownership, compensation, or control — and who would rather not become adversaries in the process. LawCorp is built for exactly that. We negotiate and document these realignments with an eye toward keeping the practice intact and the working relationships functional, and because civil litigation is core to this firm, we do it with the credibility of counsel who knows precisely what the alternative looks like.
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