Healthcare Providers
Matt Foster uniquely understands the pressures and challenges faced by healthcare providers today.
Matt has served as CEO of an Indiana psychiatric hospital, and also spent years as Indiana’s chief regulator of hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, ICF/IID group homes, home health agencies, and many other types of healthcare providers. Matt also spent five years leading litigation for a specialized Indianapolis healthcare law firm, winning cases on physician non-compete agreements, alleged Medicaid/Medicare fraud, Medicaid provider reimbursement, practice group ownership disputes, and a variety of other complex legal issues.
In more than 25 years of practice, Matt has handled hundreds of matters dealing with ownership, contracting, licensing, certification, regulation, and fraud for hospitals, physicians, nurses, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health agencies. He knows the turf.
- Medicare/Medicaid fraud and abuse
- Medicare/Medicaid certification (CMS, Joint Commission)
- Reimbursement and denial challenges
- Federal and state court litigation
- Non-compete enforcement and challenges
- Professional licensing board defense (doctors, nurses)
- State and federal health facility regulation
- Response to state and federal surveys (CMS, Joint Commission)
- Contract negotiation and review
- Health business startups and entity formation
- Provider and facility subpoena defense
- Federal and state administrative hearings
Healthcare Attorneys Empower Medical Providers
Adapted from What Do Healthcare Law Firms Do? by Joseph Rivet
https://rivethealthlaw.com/2023/10/13/what-do-healthcare-law-firms-do/ (October 13, 2023)
Healthcare attorneys like Matt Foster are crucial in supporting medical providers with legal knowledge, resources, and experience. By staying aware of the latest developments and changes to healthcare laws, regulations, and policies, a healthcare lawyer can provide ongoing advice and counsel tailored to the needs of hospitals, medical practices, or clinics.
Here are some of the ways Matt Foster’s ongoing counsel and legal representation can help strengthen your practice or healthcare business:
Improve management of reimbursement issues
Reimbursement and coverage under federal healthcare programs, such as Medicare/Medicaid, are of critical importance to healthcare providers because those providers are the country’s largest purchaser of healthcare services. Guidance from Matt Foster, who has technical knowledge of the federal Medicare and Medicaid regulatory schemes, will help you navigate the complexity of these programs.
Many providers struggle with commercial payor reimbursement. Payor-provider disputes are bad for business and frequently involve large sums and significant issues. Healthcare attorney Matt Foster can help resolve complex reimbursement issues for providers through audits and appeals, strategic advocacy, and enforcement of contracts and other legal standards. He also can defend patient care clients against payor challenges to their payment and reimbursement obligations.
Be confident in your compliance
Healthcare is one of the most regulated US industries. You must follow strict rules when conducting a healthcare business transaction, signing a contract, or creating a risk-mitigating structure for your practice. Regulation violations can result in audits, investigations, and severe penalties that harm your reputation and career. Many regulations govern healthcare professional and facility business transactions. Rules like the Stark Law, False Claims Act, and anti-kickback laws affect transaction parties and structure.
Good compliance is the best prevention, but almost one-third of providers in the US have no form of compliance oversight. Ensure you are not left behind by talking to Matt Foster and getting targeted, knowledgeable advice for your practice or healthcare business.
Benefit from stronger, better contracts
Transactions in the healthcare business, like those throughout the business world, are not always straightforward or simple. Insufficient explanations and poorly drafted contracts can lead to unexpected disagreements between business partners or even unintended legal violations.
Healthcare attorney Matt Foster can help reduce your risks with innovative thinking about transactions and careful, forward-looking language in physician and mid-level provider agreements. Physician recruitment and employment agreements, non-compete agreements, and exclusive provider agreements are just a few of the contracts Matt Foster’s experience and insight can make stronger for your practice.
Focus less on legal issues and more on your patients
Smart medical professionals want to spend time caring for patients, not navigating the legal complexities of modern healthcare practice. Utilizing the skills and experience of Matt Foster will help reduce your compliance and administrative burdens, offer you peace of mind, and otherwise free you continue giving patients your attentive, excellent care.
