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Scott P. Downing

Partner
Chicago
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312.624.6326
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Scott focuses his time on developing the right business and legal structures for healthcare companies, particularly joint ventures among various providers and non-provider third parties. Over the past two decades, he has participated in numerous transactions involving the purchase or sale of healthcare facilities representing both buyers and sellers of such companies.

Scott has extensive experience assisting ancillary service providers with all of their healthcare regulatory and corporate needs, with an emphasis on dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgery centers and specialty hospitals, as well as counseling large physician practices on the appropriate structure for their practice and the integration of their ancillary services. This experience translates to practical and effective advice.

Scott frequently speaks at conferences and seminars, including the Benesch Healthcare+ Annual Dialysis and Nephrology Conference, the RPA annual meeting, and the Carolina Kidney Associates annual meeting. He has authored or co-authored a variety of articles on business and legal topics affecting the firm's healthcare clients.

Representative Experience

  • Lead Counsel representing a nephrology centered value based care company in the sale of 51% ownership to a large regional healthcare system. The strategic partnership intends to grow the value based care services it offers patients and payors in the region.
  • Acts as General Counsel to the Renal Physicians Association.
  • Represented one of the nation’s largest nephrology group practices, in a strategic sale and long-term management agreement with an affiliate of Satellite Healthcare.
  • Benesch Healthcare+
  • Healthcare Business Transactions
  • Dialysis, Nephrology, and Vascular Access
  • Corporate Governance & Board Counseling
  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
  • University of Chicago Law School, 1991, J.D.
  • University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, 1988, B.A.
  • Illinois
  • California
  • Listed, Best Lawyers in America®, Health Care Law, 2023-2026
  • Member, American Health Lawyers Association

Highlights

Articles and Presentations
October 14, 2025
Benesch Healthcare+ Dialysis & Nephrology Digest No. 69
October 13, 2025
CMS’s IOTA Model Took Effect July 1, 2025: Implications for Transplant Hospitals and Nephrology Stakeholders
October 10, 2025
OIG and DOJ Intensify Remote Patient Monitoring Oversight: 2025 Data Snapshot, FCA Settlement and the Emerging Enforcement Playbook

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News
August 21, 2025
129 Benesch Attorneys Recognized in 2026 Best Lawyers® Rankings
August 15, 2024
132 Benesch Attorneys Recognized in 2025 Best Lawyers® Rankings
August 17, 2023
Best Lawyers in America® Rankings 2024

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