Jim primarily concentrates his practice on health care law, representing clients that include behavioral-health clinics, emergency-department staffing companies, medical and hospital associations, physician groups, tertiary care and community hospitals, urgent-care centers, and numerous voluntary agencies and individual providers.
Jim advises his clients on matters involving affiliations and networks, antitrust compliance, audits and investigations, contract analysis and negotiations, corporate governance, health-home formation and operation, managed care, Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement, mergers and acquisitions, not-for-profit corporate matters, regulatory compliance, and tax-exempt compliance, including administrative proceedings.
Jim has also created IPA and messenger-model networks for hospitals, outpatient providers, and municipalities; merged hospitals and other providers; and advised providers on business and network development, risk assumption, clinical integration, and related antitrust issues.