With business smarts, deal savvy, regulatory knowledge and industry insight, Chris negotiates, structures, drafts and closes business-critical transactions and resolves regulatory and corporate issues for healthcare sector clients.
Chris conducts deal due diligence and represents physicians and other healthcare providers, as well as physician groups and hospitals, in practice mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, employment contracts, financing transactions, supplier agreements and various other transactions.
He helps clients secure and retain state and federal licenses, avoid regulatory missteps, including issues related to compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law and prohibitions on the corporate practice of medicine, and address managed care and market access matters. Clients also rely on Chris for guidance on the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, issues and provisions under Medicare, Medicaid, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), HIPAA and HiTech compliance, and health information privacy, security and data breach related issues.
Chris represents healthcare entities in a wide variety of fields, including dialysis and nephrology, physical therapy, skilled nursing, hospital settings, dermatology, ambulatory surgery, orthopedics, home health, behavioral health, ophthalmology/optometry, dentistry, women’s health, telemedicine and veterinary medicine. His clients also include pharmacies, medical device manufacturers, durable medical equipment suppliers, clinical laboratories, healthcare professional societies and trade associations and health IT companies.
Clients benefit from Chris’s ability to formulate strategies and solutions to even the most complex problems. He finds ways to accomplish their goals without running afoul of legal or regulatory restrictions, incorporating flexibility to allow for pivots should the need arise.
Actively engaged daily in the healthcare industry, Chris, along with other Benesch healthcare lawyers, conducts an annual industry-focused Dialysis and Nephrology Conference focused on trends, issues, legal and regulatory developments and strategies.
Before attending law school, Chris worked as a consultant at Cerner Corporation, a global supplier of health information technology solutions. In that role, he worked closely with those in the healthcare sector, evaluating their IT systems and customizing them to meet their specific needs. This experience gave Chris a clear understanding of the challenges, risks and benefits of electronic document retention systems. Now he applies that knowledge to help limit their risk exposure.
