Urgent Care Centers: Corporate Practice of Medicine, State Licensure, and Other Compliance Issues
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide healthcare counsel with a review of the key legal and business issues involved with urgent care centers. The panel will offer guidance on forming, operating, acquiring, and selling urgent care centers.
Outline
- Urgent care centers: a brief overview of the industry and its growth
- Legal considerations when starting and operating urgent care centers
- Corporate practice of medicine
- Staffing models
- State licensure and permits
- Anti-kickback Statute and Stark considerations
- Other areas of focus
- Business considerations
- Location, management, and services
- Issues in buying or selling an urgent care center
- Partnering with hospitals and investors
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- What are the primary legal and business considerations for counsel to healthcare providers opening and operating an urgent care center?
- What are the most common business models used when forming urgent care centers?
- What factors should healthcare counsel consider when acquiring and selling urgent care centers?
Faculty
Khaled J. Klele
Partner
McCarter & English
Mr. Klele provides counsel to a variety of providers including long-term care facilities, ambulatory surgery centers,... | Read More
Mr. Klele provides counsel to a variety of providers including long-term care facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals, laboratories, imaging centers, addiction centers, urgent care centers and pharmacies. He routinely represents his provider clients in a variety of healthcare litigation matters including reimbursement issues, False Claims Act allegations, ERISA and other litigation matters. He also represents his provider clients in compliance matters, including allegations of regulatory violations and assists his clients with state and federal licensing agencies. Mr. Klele has defended and represented long-term care facilities in matters involving allegations of regulatory violations and standard of care issues.
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Carol K. Lucas
Shareholder, Chair Healthcare Practice Group
Buchalter
Ms. Lucas focuses her practice on healthcare law and general business law. She has extensive experience in mergers and... | Read More
Ms. Lucas focuses her practice on healthcare law and general business law. She has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities, private placements, state and federal regulations, entity formation and corporate representation of both public and private companies in the healthcare industry. Over the last several years, Ms. Lucas has represented numerous clients in connection with issues and disputes related to payment for healthcare services. She is also an expert on the establishment and representation of Federally Qualified Health Centers and related issues such as governance requirements, issues raised by hospital sponsorship of FQHCs, application issues, and the impact of health care reform on these entities. She also specializes in the representation of ambulatory surgery centers, med spas, imaging centers, and other ancillary providers in a variety of medical specialties, and in the legal and business issues that confront independent practice associations and other physician organizations. Ms. Lucas has given lectures at numerous seminars and conferences, including meetings sponsored by the State Bar of California, American Health Lawyers Association, and the Future of Health Care Delivery Conference.
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