Rick L. Hindmand

Practice Details

• Payment Information
  Payment & Cost Features

  Fixed hourly rates
  Fixed fees available
  
• Firm Information
  Position

  Member

  Firm Name

  McDonald Hopkins LLC
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Cases/Matters: Corporate : Outside general counsel representation of physician practices, with particular focus on: Drafting
  negotiating of contracts
  organizational documents
  Counseling on compliance, regulatory, employment, privacy, security
  reimbursement issues
  Advise healthcare professionals
  providers regarding affiliations, mergers
  acquisitions
  Prepare
  negotiate agreements for purchase of medical, optometry
  dental practice assets
  investment interests
  Represent medical practices, physicians
  other healthcare providers in preparing
  negotiating employment
  independent contractor agreements
  Advise physician-owned
  physician/hospital-owned ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) on issues relating to preparation
  revision of operating agreements, issuance
  sale of membership interests,
  related anti-kickback issues
  Structuring Professional Practice Arrangements : Represent physician practices in drafting
  negotiating pathology, radiology, emergency, anesthesia, neuromonitoring
  other professional services agreements with healthcare facilities
  providers
  Represent management companies
  physician practices in structuring, drafting
  negotiating management service agreements for physician in-office prescription drug dispensing arrangements
  Advise wholesale drug distributors regarding wholesale drug sales to healthcare providers
  Represent management
  clinical staffing companies in structuring
  drafting clinical staffing
  management service agreements with physician practices for chronic care management (CCM) services
  in developing CCM policies
  procedures
  Advise software developers
  physician practices regarding software licensing (end user license agreements)
  Illinois counsel for multi-state surveys
  transactions
  Advise nursing homes on long-term care pharmacy contract issues
  Advise
  represent physicians on affiliations with health systems
  Advise physician networks on corporate, compliance, antitrust
  reimbursement matters
  Represent physician-owned hospital in developing Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Collaborator Agreement
  arrangements
  Reimbursement : Counsel healthcare providers on reimbursement self-audits, overpayment reporting
  payor audits
  Advise healthcare providers on anti-markup rule
  Advise physicians
  physician organizations on value-based payment models
  Advise physicians
  management companies on direct primary care
  concierge medicine models
  Compliance, Fraud
  Abuse : Advise healthcare organizations
  professionals on fraud
  abuse issues, including compliance with the Stark self-referral law, state self-referral laws, federal
  state anti-kickbackstatutes, civil monetary penalties law
  overpayment obligations
  Advise ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) on anti-kickback
  self-referral issues relating to physician ownership
  defend ASC against self-referral allegations
  Advise physicians
  healthcare organizations on compliance programs
  issues
  HIPAA, Data Privacy
  Security : Represent HIPAA covered entities
  business associates in the review, development
  implementation of HIPAA policies
  procedures
  Advise covered entities
  business associates on risk assessment
  breach reporting