Brennan, Manna & Diamond is known nationally for its experience in healthcare and hospital law.
We serve not only as legal counsel but also as business and strategic advisers to our healthcare clients. We regularly advise our clients’ boards of directors, management and physician leaders in developing and implementing strategic plans, including the development of new product lines and services as well as strategies to protect assets.
Recent projects include the development of disease-management carve-outs and physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers. We also are assisting our healthcare clients in evaluating and implementing a multitude of options to traditional medical-malpractice insurance, including innovative asset-protection planning.
Our clients include physicians, medical staffs, PPOs, home healthcare providers, nursing homes, managed-care plans, allied health professionals, durable-medical-good providers and various other healthcare-related businesses. Our attorneys regularly counsel our clients in the following areas:
- General corporate matters
- Compliance, false claims, fraud and abuse
- Antitrust
- Strategic planning
- Corporate structure and governance
- Employment and labor relations
- State and federal regulatory issues
- Mergers, affiliations and acquisitions
- Identifying, protecting and exploiting patent, trade-secret, trademark and copyright assets
- HIPAA patient privacy and security
- APCs – Hospital outpatient PPS
- Physician-hospital joint ventures
- Physician practice corporate management
- Medical-staff issues, including bylaws, credentialing, peer review and disciplinary hearings
- EMTALA/Anti-dumping provisions (COBRA)
- Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement appeals and certification
- Integrated delivery systems and the development of networks
- Facility licensure, accreditation, certification and health planning
- Managed-care and other third-party payer contracting
- General hospital contracting
- Public-law compliance for governmental hospitals
- PHO, MSO and similar arrangements
- Physician practice acquisitions
- Insurance, including the development of captive insurance companies, provider-controlled HMOs and PPOs, and other health-insurance products
- Federal, state, and local tax, including nonprofit and tax-exempt status issues
- Environmental regulations and issues
- Software and intellectual-property licensing
- Litigation
- Tax-exempt financing
- Non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements
Practicing Attorneys
Richard S. Annunziata
M. Mark Bajalia
Elinor E. Baxter
Adam A. Bleggi
Richard W. Burke
Jason A. Butterworth
Rosina M. Caponi
John N. Childs
Christopher B. Congeni
Jack T. Diamond
Michael R. Freed
W. Scott Harders
Matthew A. Heinle
Mark E. Krohn
Frank A. Lettieri
Samantha L. Prokop
Scott P. Sandrock
Jeana M. Singleton
Frank T. Sossi
Amanda L. Waesch
Cody L. Westmoreland