Nathan’s practice is focused on health care business transactions and regulatory matters, including: mergers and acquisitions; contract and document drafting, negotiation, and review; licensure; and Medicare and Medicaid program enrollment and reimbursement.
Nathan also provides counsel on matters involving corporate governance and related best practices. Prior to joining Benesch, Nathan worked in multiple capacities for a health system located in Northeast Ohio where he maintained responsibilities in board and committee governance and administration as well as physician contracting services.
Representative Experience
- Represented Asana Hospice & Palliative Care as healthcare corporate and regulatory counsel for ongoing acquisitions, numerous regulatory considerations and as regulatory counsel for the sale of Asana Hospice to Amedisys Home Health and Hospice Care.
- Represented Providence Group in connection with its acquisition of three skilled nursing facilities located in northern California, including the drafting and negotiation efforts related to the management and operations transfer agreements, master lease, and purchase option agreement on Providence Group’s behalf.
- Representation of a venture capital and private equity firm in the purchase or lease of 20 healthcare facilities in Missouri and the purchase of 17 facilities in Ohio. Since the Ohio facilities became operational, we have continued to represent the firm in four tuck-in acquisitions.
- Represented Ohio Living Communities, an affiliate of Ohio Living, in the sale of the Park Vista continuing care retirement community in Youngstown, Ohio to Natick HCG, LLC.
- Represented the buyer in the acquisition of 17 skilled nursing and assisted living facilities in the State of Ohio, including coordination of the operations transfer and corresponding licensure and Medicare and Medicaid provider enrollment processes.
- Served as regulatory counsel to multiple long-term care and post-acute pharmacy providers in connection with initial formation, pharmacy licensure, Medicare and Medicaid enrollment in the State of Ohio, and non-resident licensure and Medicaid enrollment in bordering states.
- Managed the review, consolidation, reconstitution, and implementation of a streamlined governance structure for a regional health system.
- Represented the new owner of a multi-location home health and hospice provider in the State of Ohio and managed the licensure, Medicare, and Medicaid enrollment processes in connection with the acquisition.
- Represented the incoming operator of two skilled nursing facilities in Nebraska and Iowa as part of a multi-facility portfolio transaction that spanned several states and involved negotiations and coordination with multiple parties, including the seller, buyer, exiting operator, and incoming operator’s working capital lender.
- Represented a leading pharmacy provider to long-term care and post-acute facilities in the acquisition of a regional competitor.