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W. Clifford Mull

Regulatory Team Lead, Benesch Healthcare+ Practice Group
Cleveland
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216.363.4198
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Clifford’s practice focuses on advising physicians, dental support organizations (DSOs), and health care, life sciences, pharmaceutical and businesses on regulatory, business and intellectual property issues.

He has represented physicians, DSOs, limited licensed practitioners, physician and multi-specialty group practices, ambulatory surgery centers, durable medical equipment suppliers, medical device manufacturers and distributors, hospice agencies, pharmacies and other ancillary service providers.

Clifford regularly counsels clients on a number of regulatory issues, including licensure, certification and accreditation; HIPAA and state privacy laws, and state and federal fraud abuse laws, including the state and federal anti-kickback statutes, the Stark Physician Self Referral Law and the False Claims Act. Clifford also counsels clients in the healthcare industry and other industries with respect to business transactions and general business counseling, including formation, reorganization, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures; corporate governance; negotiation and drafting of contracts, including employment agreements, consulting agreements, service agreements, supply and distribution agreements.

Representative Experience

  • Representation of the ChildSmiles Group, LLC d/b/a Abra Health Group, a support services organization providing administrative support services to multi-specialty dental and pediatric primary care practices in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in connection with practice acquisitions and regulatory, compliance, labor & employment, and other day-to-day outside general counsel services.
  • Represented private equity sponsor in its simultaneous acquisitions of an oncology practice service provider and a group purchasing organization.
  • Represented Lighthouse Behavioral Health Solutions in its recapitalization by Amulet Capital Partners, a private equity firm.
  • Represented U.S. Healthvest in connection with the acquisitions of Lake Behavioral, Smokey Point and Silver Oaks, all psychiatric hospitals.
  • Representing large regional health system in the acquisition of a governmental hospital and an affiliated physician practice.
  • Represented Wellspring Capital Management, LLC and National Seating & Mobility, Inc. as health care regulatory counsel in an agreement with Court Square Capital Partners.
  • Representation of Great Lakes Caring Home Health and Hospice as healthcare regulatory counsel in an agreement with Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Under the transaction, Wellspring Capital Management, LLC exited Great Lakes Caring and Blue Wolf Capital has become Great Lakes' new equity partner. Great Lakes Caring is one of the largest providers of in-home post-acute services in the U.S.
  • Served as health care regulatory counsel for a New York-based private equity firm in its acquisition of a nationally recognized behavioral health provider specializing in clinical, educational and residential services for children and adults.
  • Served as deal counsel for a regional health system in the reorganization of its home health care and hospice service line through a spin out and joint venture with a management company.

  • Benesch Healthcare+
  • Regulatory & Compliance/Audit & Appeals
  • Antitrust Law/Healthcare
  • Healthcare Business Transactions
  • Capital Formation
  • Compliance/HIPAA
  • Dental/DSOs
  • Dialysis, Nephrology, and Vascular Access
  • Fraud & Abuse
  • Health Care Litigation
  • Long Term Care
  • Managed Care
  • Pharmacy
  • Physicians
  • Not-for-Profit
  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2005, J.D.
    • magna cum laude 
    • Order of the Coif
    • Law Review, Notes Editor
    • Health Law Concentration with Honors
    • Richard A. and Brandon S. Collier Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Law-Medicine Curriculum
  • Case Western Reserve University, 2005, M.A., Bioethics
  • DePauw University , 2001, B.A.
    • Major:  Biology
    • Minor:  Chemistry
  • Ohio
  • Listed, The Best Lawyers in America®,Health Care Law, 2020-2025
  • Listed, 2023 "Lawyer of the Year", The Best Lawyers in America®
  • Listed, Super Lawyers - Rising Star 2017-2018
  • Member, American Health Lawyers Association
  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
  • Member, Ohio State Bar Association
  • Member, Medical Legal Liaison Committee, Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio
  • Past-Chair, Health Law Section Council, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Highlights

Articles and Presentations
May 5, 2025
Benesch’s Dental/DSO Intelligence Monthly Report: April 2025
April 21, 2025
Benesch’s Dental/DSO Intelligence Monthly Report: March/April 2025
February 25, 2025
DSO Market Trends and 2025 Outlook ADSO Webinar Recording

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132 Benesch Attorneys Recognized in 2025 Best Lawyers® Rankings
August 17, 2023
Best Lawyers in America® Rankings 2024
August 18, 2022
U.S. News & World Report - Best Lawyers Rankings 2023

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