Bradley’s Healthcare Joint Ventures practice features a multidisciplinary team of business and healthcare attorneys with specific experience in corporate, tax, tax exemption, and various regulatory fields. We have extensive experience in counseling clients on the formation of both ancillary joint ventures – such as surgery centers, imaging centers, and sleep centers – and whole-hospital joint ventures.
Our attorneys assist with the preparation of offering memoranda, partnership agreements, operating agreements, leases, management agreements, development agreements, and other documents needed in the context of joint venture formation. Our team has experience with all areas of law required for syndicated joint ventures, including federal and state securities laws, healthcare regulatory laws, corporate and business laws, and tax laws. We also assist clients with issues involving governance, fraud, and abuse such as the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, and state anti-kickback and self-referral issues, as well as reimbursement, including under-arrangement billing and provider-based issues.
Our practice includes experienced antitrust counsel, who provide advice to providers on hospital joint venture formations and operations with other providers and health systems, such as issues with Copperweld compliance and attainment of financial integration or clinical integration. Our tax attorneys are highly skilled in working with joint ventures involving tax-exempt organizations and academic medical centers, including exemption and unrelated business income tax (UBIT) issues that arise in joint venture transactions.