Health Care

Bodman’s multi-disciplinary Health Care Team serves health care clients in all aspects of their business operations. Our clients range from the largest medical systems to small regional  hospitals. Bodman health care attorneys understand the corporate anatomy of a major health system. They should — team members serve on the governing boards of some of Michigan’s largest health care providers.

Bodman attorneys assist health care clients on all fronts, from consolidation of hospitals and systems, to careful expansion of the number of beds in growing markets, to strategic negotiations with government and medical school partners. We have assisted hospitals and health systems with restructuring, forming strategic alliances, and meeting the challenges of a fast-changing regulatory environment. Bodman currently represents three of the largest health care systems in Michigan and the largest nonprofit health care provider in the United States.

Our experienced team of lawyers is well versed in serving the needs of not only health care providers, but of businesses closely associated with the health care industry, including those in the pharmaceutical, life sciences, and medical device sectors. The health care team approaches issues from a broad business perspective, drawing on expertise from all practice areas within the firm.

Our Services:

Attorneys within the group have experience with:

• All aspects of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Structuring joint ventures and other business relationships
• Corporate governance requirements
• Matters relating to boards of trustees, audit committees, special investigative committees and litigation committees
• Captive insurance developments
• International transactions
• Acquisition of management information systems
• Complex litigation, including employment, class action defense, ERISA, insurance, product and professional liability, shareholder derivative matters, tax and HIPAA
• Real estate transactions, including private development, financing, leasing and construction, real estate litigation, and environmental issues
• Labor and employment issues, including employment policies, procedures, and practices; compliance with ADA, FMLA, HIPAA and other health-related laws; tax qualified employee benefit plans; investigating employee misconduct (including sexual harassment); discipline and discharge; reductions-in-force; and reorganizations

Representative Matters:

We have helped health care providers resolve a range of issues with information systems vendors, including fraud, breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation, civil RICO, and violations of consumer protection statutes.

We represented a health system in an employment lawsuit filed by a senior official claiming age, gender and weight discrimination in the denial of a promotion and retaliation over his filing of an EEOC charge, achieving a favorable settlement and dismissal of the lawsuit.

We represented a health system in the partial sale of one of its hospitals to a group of physicians, creating the first physician-owned hospital in Michigan.

We negotiated a collaboration among the State of Michigan, County of Wayne, City of Detroit, and a health system that provided an infusion of $50 million in government aid.

We successfully represented a health care system in certificate-of-need litigation (at both the trial and appellate levels) that upheld the licensure of beds for strategic expansion in Oakland County, Michigan.

We advised a national health system in negotiations for a joint venture with a New York Stock Exchange company.

We represented a health care provider through the complex phases of needs assessment, negotiation, acquisition, integration, installation, testing, and deployment of mission-critical information systems.

We represented an Illinois-based hospital in the analysis and implementation of managed care and alternative service delivery systems, including the establishment of its own managed care employee health plan which has since been expanded and made available to other employer groups in the hospital service area.

We helped a regional medical center establish a joint venture with a specialty cancer hospital, expanding the resources of both entities to improve the health status of cancer patients in the hospital service area.

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