Elizabeth L. Dalton

Representative Experience

• Represented a large healthcare company in reorganizing and simplifying its capitalization and organizational structure through a series of mergers and other related transactions including, among other things, a private securities offering and amendment of existing credit facility.
• Structured integration of several physician group practices with hospitals to create provider-based clinics and free-standing facilities.
• Negotiated and structured joint venture among four hospitals (two of which were owned by major hospital systems) to create a specialty hospital.
• Assisting physicians and other healthcare providers in forming joint ventures to develop imaging facilities, sleep labs, clinical laboratories, physical therapy centers and other healthcare facilities.
• Representing hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers in drafting and negotiating professional services contracts, recruitment agreements, lease agreements, service agreements and employment contracts.
• Ongoing representation of several physician-owned hospitals.
• Assisted significant national charity in streamlining organization through series of mergers to create regional divisions.
• Represented various physicians and physician group practices in connection with False Claims Act lawsuits, overpayments, audits and appeals.
• Represented hospital in connection with Department of Justice’s national enforcement initiative regarding Medicare billing for implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), coordinating experts to defend hospital practices and compliance department to implement proactive procedures to ensure regulatory conformity.
• Represented manufacturer and national wholesale food distributor in establishment and ongoing operations of franchise systems.