Academic Medical Centers & Teaching Hospitals
Alston & Bird’s health care and life sciences attorneys have extensive experience representing academic medical centers and their component facilities, including medical schools, teaching hospitals, foundations and faculty practice plans. One of our attorneys served in an in-house capacity for Emory Healthcare for over seven years; another is a former in-house counsel to University Hospitals of Cleveland and has served as on-loan counsel to both Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital, both of which are teaching hospitals.
We represent academic medical centers (AMCs) on legal, compliance, operational and reimbursement issues, including:
- representation of a preeminent academic health system in Georgia in the development and execution of strategic alliances with other health systems;
- development of a comprehensive compliance program for a preeminent academic health system in Tennessee;
- preparation of academic affiliation agreements for numerous entities across the country;
- advice regarding graduate medical education funding and related issues;
- counsel regarding corporate transactions, including mergers, strategic alliances, affiliations, joint operating agreements and joint ventures;
- review and implementation of operational and clinical agreements to ensure compliance with applicable federal and state fraud and abuse laws (including the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Civil Monetary Penalties Law);
- development of residency supervision and staffing agreements;
- performance of IRB compliance reviews;
- advice regarding intellectual property matters and patents for universities across the country;
- representation of teaching hospitals in transactions requiring state attorney general review;
- representation of entities in conversions from nonprofit to for-profit status, and vice versa; and
- representation of nonprofit hospitals in taxable and tax-exempt financing.
Current and past engagements for universities and components of AMCs include:
- Emory University
- Vanderbilt University
- SUNY Buffalo
- Beth Israel Medical Center (Boston)
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University
- Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis)
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta