The attorneys of Leonard, Street and Deinard’s Health Law practice serve as outside counsel and advisors to inside counsel for regional and national health care and health insurance organizations.

The practice serves all types of clients in the health care industry, including physicians, hospitals, multi-hospital systems, health plans, long-term care providers, health insurance companies and health-related trade associations.

Leonard, Street and Deinard’s health law practice counsels its clients in the key areas of the law bearing upon health care industry client circumstances, including:

• Administrative law
  
• Antitrust
  
• General corporate employee benefits
  
• Fraud and abuse
  
• Health plan regulation
  
• Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
  
• Provider credentialing
  
• Tax and tax-exempt law
  
• Third-party payment
  

Apart from general counsel to clients in areas of our substantive experience, a significant amount of our practice is transactional. Representative transactions include:

• Clinic mergers and hospital acquisitions of clinics
  
• Provider joint ventures, including preferred provider organizations (PPOs), physician-hospital organizations (PHOs), management services organizations (MSOs) and joint-ventured clinical services
  
• Vertical integrations, including health plan-provider combinations
  
• Complex reorganization of health plans and providers