Mergers, Acquisitions and Affiliations
This course will introduce you to one of the emerging strategic imperatives currently driving the New Business of Healthcare – Mergers, Acquisitions and Affiliations.
New business models such as ACO’s and PCMH’s are opening up numerous opportunities for healthcare organizations to partner. This course sheds light on the legal requirements that healthcare organizations must consider as they evaluate partnering options.
Course Overview
Presenter: Heidi Schult Gregory
Harris Beach, PLLC
Presenter: Justin P. Runke
Harris Beach, PLLC
This course will review the external pressures driving today’s healthcare institutions to explore new partnering opportunities. It will review each of 7 different affiliation options, their pluses, minuses, and implementation considerations. The course will explore possible ‘speed bumps’ one may encounter along the way and present the different steps an organization should follow to select the right affiliation model for them.
Time to view this course is 28 minutes.
Course Learning Objectives
In this course the learner will:
- Understand the external pressures facing healthcare institutions and their relationship to affiliation models
- Understand and be able to articulate the 7 different affiliation options and their benefits and limitations
- Understand many of the unforeseen consequences and roadblocks one may incur in an affiliation
- Understand the process one should follow as they determine the best affiliation opportunity for them
Time to complete this course is approximately 40 minutes.
Presenter: Heidi Schult Gregory
Ms. Gregory is a member of the firm, leader of the Health Care Industry Team, and practices in the Business and Commercial Litigation Practice Group. She is listed in New York Super Lawyers in the areas of health care and business litigation. She has extensive court experience representing hospitals, health care providers, nursing homes, residential treatment facilities, professionals, insurance companies, municipal corporations, school districts, and large and small businesses in state and federal court. Ms. Gregory has successfully litigated a variety of medical malpractice and negligence cases and has handled numerous guardianship and civil commitment proceedings.
Ms. Gregory regularly counsels health care clients in areas of risk management, medical ethics, clinical operations, clinical trial work, statutory and regulatory compliance, professional discipline, credentialing, peer review and health information management. Ms. Gregory also provides statutory and regulatory compliance training seminars on a number of subjects, including HIPAA, guardianships, Mental Hygiene Law, end of life care and the new Family Health Care Decisions Act.
Prior to joining Harris Beach in 1996, Ms. Gregory was in private practice where she focused primarily on civil litigation, including medical and dental malpractice and personal injury defense.
Presenter: Justin P. Runke
Mr. Runke practices with the Health Care Industry Team and the Corporate Practice Group. He has extensive experience in representing health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory surgery centers and large physician practices in a wide array of transactional matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, physician contracting and recruiting, health information technology licensing, physician subsidy programs relating to the implementation of electronic health records, and physician-hospital integration matters including the formation and organization of captive professional corporations. Mr. Runke regularly counsels clients on corporate compliance matters, including matters related to corporate compliance plans and the role of officers and directors with respect to compliance.
Mr. Runke also has broad experience on a wide array of corporate and commercial law issues, including mergers and acquisitions, software and intellectual property licensing, public and private financing transactions, general business planning, and various regulatory and statutory compliance issues.
Development Organization: Harris Beach, PLLC
Founded in 1856, Harris Beach has over 200 lawyers and is ranked by The National Law Journal as one of the country’s Top 250 law firms.
With offices in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Uniondale, New York City, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, White Plains, and Yonkers, as well as New Haven, CT and Newark, NJ, Harris Beach and its affiliates provide a full range of legal and professional services for clients across New York state as well as nationally and internationally.