Areas of Practice - Healthcare
Healthcare Practice Group
The complicated regulatory and statutory environment in which professionals practice today requires that professionals have available to them experienced legal advice in the different substantive areas specific to healthcare. Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Fetter & Burstein, P.C. recognized early on the need to establish a distinct Healthcare Practice Group within its Professional Practices Group. Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Fetter & Burstein, P.C.’s Healthcare Practice Group is, therefore, one of the oldest established practice groups dedicated exclusively to healthcare related matters.
Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Fetter & Burstein, P.C. has one of the largest healthcare practice groups in Central New York. Our attorneys who concentrate their legal practice in healthcare related matters are recognized leaders in the community among other legal professionals as well as by the clients we serve. Our firm’s healthcare practice attorneys all have acquired a unique understanding of the practical business, regulatory, economic and political interactions particular to the healthcare industry and apply their combined expertise, experience and proficiency to assist our clients.
The attorneys practicing within the firm’s Healthcare Practice Group maintain a particular emphasis on the representations of individually licensed physicians, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, physical and occupational therapists,diagnostic and treatment centers, multi-specialty groups, and other healthcare professionals, their respective practices, and professional organizations. In addition, the firm is special counsel to a large number of area hospitals in matters involving hospital/physician joint ventures and practice acquisition and development.
To further augment the value provided to our clients, our Healthcare Practice Group coordinates its efforts with the attorneys in the firm’s other areas of substantial expertise such as taxation and estate planning to enhance our ability to provide superior quality and cost-effective legal services to our clients. The attorneys affiliated with the Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Fetter & Burstein, P.C. Healthcare Practice Group have distinguished themselves by the depth of their business acumen and their ability to provide creative solutions to complex legal problems.
Our areas of practice include:
- Acquisitions, Mergers & Sales
- Business Succession Plans
- Fraud & Abuse Compliance and Defense
- Healthcare Transactional Practice
- Hospital-Physician Contracting
- Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures
- Integrated Delivery Systems
- Labor and Employment Matters
- Managed Care Contracting
- Physician Credentialing
- Professional Conduct / Discipline / Peer Review
- Reimbursement Issues
- Tax and Employee Benefit Matters
Healthcare Practice Group News & Events
Client Alert!
On June 12, 2009 the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") released a Change Request outlining recent changes to the Medicare Program Integrity Manual. These changes involve ambulatory surgical center(s) ("ASC(s)") and the newly acquired right to receive reassigned benefits relating to services billed by professional service providers to Medicare. The implementation date is October 5, 2009.
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Marc S. Beckman, Michael J. Compagni, Dr. Andrew M. Knoll and Susan Fortin Lesser, spoke at the recent Lorman Seminar "Introduction to the Law Regarding Medical
Records." Dr Knoll spoke on the historical evolution of medical record confidentiality as well as "NY Public Health Law and Specially Protected Information"; Mr. Compagni explained "HIPAA Privacy Regulations"; Mr. Beckman covered the "Office of Professional Medical Conduct and the Medical Practice" and Ms. Lesser detailed "Payor Contracting" issues.
Andrew M. Knoll spoke on "Staying Out of Legal Troubles" at the New York State Academy of Family Physicians Winter Weekend/Scientific Assembly in Lake Placid, NY in January 2007. He will also speak on "Contracting Issues for Hospitalists" for the Hospitalist Conferences USA, Hospitalist CME Series in Boston in March 2007.
Healthcare Practice Group Articles and Publications
For more information on our firm and its Healthcare Practice Group, please contact any of the following attorneys:
- Stephen H. Cohen, Chair | stephen.h.cohen@scolaro.com | Biography
- Susan Fortin Lesser | slesser@scolaro.com | Biography
- Michael J. Compagni | mcompagni@scolaro.com | Biography
- Marc S. Beckman | mbeckman@scolaro.com | Biography
- Jeffrey B. Scheer | jscheer@scolaro.com | Biography
- Andrew M. Knoll | aknoll@scolaro.com | Biography
