Hospital-Physician Relations and Medico-Legal

Experience

• Participate in review of, and revisions to, medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, and policies such as Codes of Conduct and Disruptive Behavior for more than 200 hospitals in Chicago and around the country including academic medical centers, and suburban and critical access hospitals.
• Involvement in over 200 peer review hearings and thousands of peer review issues and investigations for hospitals in Illinois and several out-of-state hospitals.
• Assistance to health care systems in consolidating medical staffs subsequent to a merger and revision of leadership structure and bylaws.
• Mediator and consultant in disputes between hospital and medical staff, including physician groups.
• Advise health care clients on a range of hospital-physician relations issues. Includes physician employment and recruitment, physician compensation, exclusive contracts, medical staff development plans, hospital licensure and accreditation, emergency department coverage and compensation arrangements, medical staff bylaws, peer review, hospital/medical staff disputes, ACO privileging and credentialing, allied health professionals, medical staff mergers and integration, and Data Bank and state disciplinary reporting
• Special counsel to state Hospital Association on various statutory initiatives affecting hospital/physician relations in areas of employment, exclusive contracts, restrictive covenants, medical staff credentialing, the Hospital Licensing Act and Medical Studies Act.
• Assistance to PSOs and their participating providers with respect to certification and recertification by Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) and compliance with Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005.
• Represented clients in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, state public health and Office of Inspector General complaints against hospitals alleging EMTALA violations.