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Current Trends in Healthcare M&A

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

7:30 – 10 a.m.
The Ritz-Carlton
100 Carondelet Plaza
St. Louis, Missouri

McGuireWoods LLP, Clayton Capital Partners, KPMG, Lockton and the St. Louis RCGA invite you to join us for an

Continue Reading McGuireWoods to Co-Host Current Trends in Healthcare M&A Breakfast Seminar in St. Louis

McGuireWoods was pleased to recently sponsor a "DC to VC" roundtable during Chicago’s TechWeek featuring Aneesh Chopra, the United States Chief Technical Officer and 35 venture capital investors and early-stage health IT companies. Mr. Chopra and the venture capitalists exchanged thoughts on the

Continue Reading United States Chief Technical Officer Aneesh Chopra Holds Roundtable Discussion with Venture Capitalists on Health IT

Healthcare and life sciences companies do business in a heated regulatory enforcement environment. Buyers of healthcare and life sciences companies are placing increasing scrutiny on target companies’ compliance with healthcare laws and regulations. As such, it is  becoming more and

Continue Reading What to do when your due diligence uncovers a regulatory issue

Yesterday, CMS released the much anticipated proposed regulations regarding the Shared Savings Program contemplated in Section 3022 of the healthcare reform law, PPACA.  The 429-page set of regulations is expected to provide greater clarity re CMS’s implementation of HHS’s authority to contract with

Continue Reading Long-Awaited Proposed Rules re Shared Savings Program & ACOs Released By CMS, IRS, DOJ & FTC

Just six weeks into the long-awaited conversion to bundled reimbursement, and with the announcement of two major consolidating mergers of large dialysis organizations, 2011 is already shaping up to be another year of evolution for the U.S. dialysis industry.  McGuireWoods will

Continue Reading McGuireWoods to Host 9th Annual Business & Legal Issues in Dialysis & Nephrology Industries Conference

We are excited to post the full agenda for the McGuireWoods 8th Annual Healthcare and Life Sciences Private Equity and Financing Conference to be held on Feburary 23 in Chicago, Illinois.  Please visit http://www.healthcareprivateequity.com to view the full agenda and

Continue Reading 8th Annual Healthcare and Life Science Private Equity and Financing Conference Agenda Posted

In prior posts I’ve discussed the significant impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the PPACA, more commonly referred to as the healthcare reform legislation) on the physician-owned hospital industry.  Section 6001 of the PPACA stymies growth of

Continue Reading Physician Hospitals of America (PHA) and Texas Spine & Joint Hospital (TSJH) File Suit Challenging Healthcare Reform Restrictions on Expansion/Development