A decision affecting your medical practice can involve questions that clinical experience alone wasn’t meant to answer. You may be preparing to bring in another physician, renegotiate an agreement, or resolve a payment dispute before it interferes with the work you do.
Fortunately, Maggs McDermott & DiCicco provides the guidance of a physician services lawyer for healthcare professionals throughout Monmouth, Ocean, and Middlesex Counties in New Jersey. Our attorneys will help you understand the legal implications, protect your practice’s interests, and address the matter with a confident legal strategy.
Legal Services for Physicians and Medical Practices
The terms you accept as a medical practitioner today can influence who controls the practice, how revenue is distributed, and what happens when a professional relationship ends. A medical practice attorney can examine those terms from both a healthcare and business perspective before you sign. We can also help establish policies, resolve disagreements, and prepare for changes in ownership without losing sight of how each decision will influence your practice.
Types of Healthcare Professionals
Our attorneys have represented solo physicians, group practices, surgery centers, dentists, and larger healthcare organizations. That experience includes working, among others, with professionals in family medicine, radiology, pain management, and surgical specialties. As a healthcare professionals’ attorney, we’ll learn how your organization delivers care and conducts business before developing legal guidance around its structure, contracts, and professional responsibilities.
Legal Support for Healthcare Professionals
Whether your medical practice is preparing to commit to an agreement or make a consequential business decision, a healthcare attorney can help handle your unique legal circumstances. Our attorneys provide direct counsel in several areas, including:
- Practice Transactions – We’ll guide you through the legal work involved in adding an owner, acquiring another practice, or selling your interest.
- Launching a Practice – We’ll help establish an ownership structure that addresses how the practice will operate and how its owners will make decisions.
- Physician Agreements – Our attorneys will prepare or negotiate terms governing compensation, responsibilities, restrictive covenants, and the end of the professional relationship.
- Insurance Network Contracts – We’ll review proposed terms and negotiate provisions that affect your practice’s participation in an insurer’s network.
Common Legal Issues Physicians Face
Legal problems can interrupt your practice’s operations or put an important professional relationship under strain. Our healthcare compliance legal services can help you address concerns such as:
- Professional Liability Concerns – Our attorneys will evaluate the allegations, protect your practice’s interests, and prepare for litigation when the circumstances require it.
- HIPAA Compliance – We’ll review privacy concerns and advise your practice on policies that protect patients’ health information.
- Billing and Reimbursement Disputes – Our attorneys can examine the governing agreement and challenge disputed payments or collection problems.
- Employment Disputes – We’ll assess the applicable contract, workplace policies, and each party’s responsibilities before recommending a legal response.
Why Choose Our Physician Services Attorneys?
A physician’s legal matter may call for knowledge of healthcare regulation along with experience in business agreements or courtroom disputes. Our law firm brings those capabilities together, so you won’t need to explain your practice’s history to a different legal team each time the issue involves another area of law.
We’ll give you an honest assessment and manage the work with close attention to cost. If negotiations cannot produce terms that serve your practice, our litigators are prepared to continue the matter in court.
Protect the Practice You’ve Worked to Build
Your legal strategy should account for the healthcare practice you operate now and the professional future you’re working toward. Here at Maggs McDermott & DiCicco, we’ll take the time to understand both before recommending your next steps.
Don’t settle for just any attorney. Contact our physician services attorneys today for a free legal consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
You’ll want to involve an attorney before signing an employment agreement, joining a practice, or accepting new ownership responsibilities. Your counsel can review the legal consequences before the terms become binding. An attorney can also step in when a payment, compliance, or employment problem has already developed.
Yes. Our attorneys can examine the insurance contract and determine why payment was denied, delayed, or reduced. We can then communicate with the insurer, challenge its position, and pursue the remedy available under the agreement.
That depends on how the practice is owned and operated. Its governing documents should clearly establish decision-making authority, financial responsibilities, and what happens when an owner leaves. Employment agreements and written privacy policies can provide further protection where the practice needs it.
Absolutely. We can help your practice bring in another physician, admit a new owner, purchase another practice, or negotiate new business agreements. Our role is to identify the legal consequences before you commit resources or sign binding terms.
Yes. We can examine the proposed compensation, professional duties, restrictive covenants, and termination language. If a provision creates an unreasonable obligation or doesn’t match the parties’ understanding, our attorneys can negotiate clearer terms before anyone signs.