Structuring Private Equity Healthcare Management Service Organizations
Corporate Practice of Medicine and Fee-Splitting, Regulatory Compliance
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide guidance to counsel involved in structuring private equity management service organizations (MSOs) in the healthcare arena. The panel will discuss the nuts and bolts of structuring the transaction, including solutions to the specific risks presented by the corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting issues. The panel will address regulatory compliance issues unique to the healthcare industry.
Outline
- Factors when considering MSO investment with healthcare providers
- For private equity firm
- For physician practice
- Structuring healthcare MSOs with private equity
- Corporate practice of medicine
- Fee arrangements
- Regulatory issues
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What factors contribute to private equity firms and physician practices considering and entering into MSO arrangements?
- What are the critical factors for counsel in structuring MSOs?
- What are best practices for counsel to ensure regulatory compliance in a physician practice private equity MSO?
Faculty

Paul A. Gomez
Principal
Polsinelli
Mr. Gomez brings a deep understanding of the major forces driving many healthcare transactions, including shifting... | Read More
Mr. Gomez brings a deep understanding of the major forces driving many healthcare transactions, including shifting payment models, advances in technology, and the need to achieve greater economies of scale. His transactional and regulatory practice focuses on complex hospital/physician integration models, physician practice acquisitions, direct-to-employer ACOs, private equity investments and MSO arrangements, formation and expansion of license-exempt medical foundation clinics, post-acute and home care transactions and regulatory matters, and ambulatory surgery center acquisitions and joint ventures, among others.
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Roger D. Strode
Partner
Foley & Lardner
Mr. Strode's practice focuses on health care business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, corporate... | Read More
Mr. Strode's practice focuses on health care business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructurings and joint ventures, general corporate matters and health care regulation. His experience includes the representation of institutional health care providers, large physician groups, specialty providers (ASC development organizations), health care private equity firms and industry consultants. He participated as lead counsel in numerous health care and corporate transactions, including the purchase and sale, or transfer of sponsorship of hospitals, health systems, physician practices and health maintenance organizations; the formation of specialty hospitals; and the formation of ancillary services joint ventures.
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