About M. Ramana Rameswaran
With practical in-house experience inside the health care and pharmaceutical industries, Muthuramanan "Ramana" Rameswaran helps clients on a range of regulatory, transactions, investigatory, and compliance matters. Whether advising private equity funds, physician practices, hospitals and health systems on structuring M&A transactions and joint ventures, or combatting fraud and abuse, Ramana is a trusted voice who understands his clients' business concerns. He is a recipient of numerous prestigious awards and honors, including the ABA's On the Rise - Top 40 Young Lawyers, the ABA Health Law Section's Emerging Young Lawyer in Healthcare and the National Minority Forum's 40 under 40 Leaders in Minority Health.
Legal perspective shaped by medical knowledge and in-house experience
Ramana counsels clients on major M&A transactions and joint ventures particularly involving health care private equity transactions. He provides strategic guidance on health care regulatory issues related to state and federal fraud and abuse laws, telehealth, corporate practice of medicine, operational issues, provider reimbursement, clinical trials and more. He also assists with health care policy analysis and advocacy. Ramana has become one of the nation's leading advisors on CARES Act funding for healthcare providers, and has provided guidance to hundreds of such providers over the past two years.
Practice Focus
- Healthcare transactions
- Health care entities and pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers
- Federal and state fraud and abuse compliance, including Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law compliance
- Complex co-management, consulting and physician arrangements
- Large-scale supply-chain arrangements, including GPO arrangements
- Health IT and privacy
- Corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting and licensure
- 340B Drug Discount Program compliance and contracting
Representative Experience
News
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February 6, 2025
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September 17, 2024
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March 22, 2024
Publications
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January 2024
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May 18, 2023
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May 2, 2022
Podcasts
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February 27, 2024 | Guest
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Rotating Host
Quick Reads
Presentations and Events
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April 2–5, 2025Speaker | Novel Issues in Healthcare Workshop
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February 23–25, 2025Presenter | Best Practices for Health System Innovation Centers
Presenter | Innovative Physician Partnerships -
August 29, 2024Special Guest