Providing care to patients should be relatively straight-forward in any setting. Unfortunately, in today’s regulatory environment, it isn't. If you are a physician, a physician group practice, behavioral health provider, ambulatory surgery center (ASC), hospital, or a health care facility and need help with Medicare, Medicaid, the Stark Law, the anti-kickback statute, state reimbursement laws like the Maryland Patient Referral Law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), or patient privacy, I can help. Some facilities, like ambulatory surgical centers, hospices, and others, need help with Certificate of Need and licensing programs. If you have questions about these programs, I would love to talk with you and help you with those questions. With CMS focusing its efforts on Alternative Payment Models since the Affordable Care Act in 2010, you may have looked into or joined one of those models, like an accountable care organization (MSSP, ACO REACH), the Kidney Care Choices Model (CKCC), a bundled payment systems (BPCI), the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program (CJR), or others. These programs are very complex with cost-shifting elements and benefits which are not easily understood. We can work through them together.Lastly, I work with clients on a variety of mergers and acquisitions, contract negotiation, entity formation, employment and consulting agreements, and other corporate and limited liability company matters in the health care industry. If you need help with any of these, please contact me at cdean@milesstockbridge.com | 410 385-3490Specialties: Health Care and Corporate Law