Areas of Focus
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Business
- Facility and Professional Regulation and Operation
- Federal Contracts
- Fraud and Abuse
- Health Care Antitrust Counseling and Litigation
- Health Care Construction
- Health Care Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Health Information Technology
- Human Resources
- Medicare and Medicaid Payment and Certification
- Ober|Kaler Health Care General Counsel Institute
- Tax-exempt Organizations
Industries
- Academic Hospitals and Faculty Practice Plans
- Ambulatory Care Facilities
- Billing and Management Providers
- Clinical Laboratories
- Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS)
- Home Health and Hospice Organizations
- Hospitals and Health Systems
- Long-Term Care Providers
- Managed Care Organizations
- Nonphysician Providers
- Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
- Pharmacies
- Physician Practices and Professional Organizations
Tax-exempt Organizations
The Health Law Group at Ober|Kaler is known for offering its tax-exempt health care clients an array of sophisticated legal capabilities. We work hand-in-hand with our clients, partnering with them to identify and evaluate the many important tax exemption issues that must be considered when entering into transactions or making governance changes.
We represent a variety of tax-exempt clients in the health care arena, including:
- Public and private hospitals
- Multi-hospital systems
- Integrated delivery systems
- Academic medical centers
- Home health agencies
- Health maintenance organizations (HMOs)
- Continuing care retirement communities
- Provider associations
- Physician clinics
- Faculty practice plans
- Physician-hospital organizations
- Management services organizations
- Shared service organizations
Our attorneys offer our clients a wealth of experience in all aspects of tax, corporate, regulatory and operational issues relating to the health care sector. We also work closely with colleagues across our Health Law Group as well as with other Ober|Kaler attorneys from related practices. Our capabilities include:
- Preparing and filing applications for tax-exempt status
- Representation in pre-submittal conferences and conferences of right
- Preparing and filing private letter ruling requests
- IRS audit representation in post-audit challenges to exempt status
- Evaluating tax aspects of corporate restructuring by exempt organizations
- Evaluating unrelated business activities
- Evaluating physician recruitment programs
- Drafting agreements to satisfy tax, Stark and fraud and abuse rules
- Analyzing joint venture activities
- Drafting and negotiating joint venture transaction agreements
- Advising on lobbying and political campaign activity restrictions
- Drafting conflict of interest and compliance policies
- Evaluating intermediate sanctions issues and developing compliance procedures
- Analyzing and resolving tax-exempt bond financing issues
- Advising on employee benefits and executive compensation issues
