Our transactional department particularly concentrates its efforts to individual healthcare practitioners and group practices. We have negotiated and prepared employment and independent contractor agreements for physicians with private practices, as well as Chief of Service contracts for most departments in New York State hospitals and other licensed facilities. The Firm specializes in negotiating physician oriented leases for commercial space and also negotiates and prepares all primary and ancillary documents as they may relate to transactions affecting physician’s practices and other health care related enterprises. In addition, the Firm has provided counsel for physician groups in connection with their merger with or purchase of other practices.  We have assisted physicians by structuring medical partnerships, agreements between individual Physicians and New York State Article 28 facilities and medical equipment leases.  The Firm has also been involved with the construction of health care related facilities and other medical buildings, including, an Ambulatory Care Pavilion, a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, and an Article 28 Dialysis Unit. The Firm has negotiated agreements with Physician Practice Management Companies and Management Service Organizations for individual physicians and large group practices.

The Firm has structured Physician Hospital Organizations, Multispecialty Physician Groups, Preferred Provider Organizations, Independent Practice Associations, Management Service Organizations and Physician Hospital Organizations in order to create Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems, which may include the Hospital for the purpose of managed care contracting with Health Maintenance Organizations.
The Firm specializes in the following transactional issues:

• Employment contracts and independent contractor agreements
• Leases for commercial space
• Primary and ancillary documents relating to transactions affecting physician’s practices
• Merger or acquisition of practices
• Structuring medical partnership agreements between physicians and New York State Article 28 facilities (equipment leases, construction of health care related facilities)
• Negotiations with physician practice management companies and services