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Adam H. Laughton guides health care providers and other parties through the complexities of health care transactions, including inevitable regulatory questions, licensing, payor enrollment and many other issues. Adam has handled transactions involving a wide variety of providers and facilities, including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health providers and freestanding emergency rooms, as well as physician practices and other entrepreneurs in the health care space. These transactions have included deals as large as $1 billion, and are located in a wide variety of locations around the United States.

Adam’s experience also includes regulatory and compliance matters, such as HIPAA, Stark/Anti-Kickback, False Claims Act, and state law issues. He advises businesses on corporate and transactional matters ranging from reorganizations and mergers to the development of complex organizational and contractual structures and joint ventures. Adam has advised companies in many stages of their lifecycle on both regulatory and transactional issues, including start-up companies.

As part of his work with health care providers and in conjunction with his transactional and regulatory work, Adam assists providers with internal investigations of compliance matters, including False Claims Act investigations and Stark self-disclosures to the OIG. Adam has worked with providers dealing with payor audits and other reimbursement issues, including Medicare appeals and No Surprises Act disputes.

Concentrations

  • Health care transactions
  • Mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and joint ventures
  • HIPAA
  • Stark/Anti-Kickback
  • False Claims Act

Kompetencje

Doświadczenie

  • Represented owners of an ambulatory surgery center in sale to a national hospital and health system chain.°
  • Represented family planning and women's health clinic in a variety of internal investigations and compliance matters.
  • Represented a physician practice in negotiation of a joint venture facility with a local hospital.
  • Represented a physician practice management platform in the acquisition of physician practices in multiple states.
  • Represented a large specialty medical practice in a variety of corporate, transactional, compliance and real estate matters.

°The above representations were handled by Mr. Laughton prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

  • Summer Clerk, Utah Supreme Court, 2007

Sukcesy i wyróżnienia

  • Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, 2024-2025
  • Member, American Health Lawyers Association, 2008-Present
    • Vice Chair, Physician Organizations Practice Group, 2024-2027
  • Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law Center
  • Member, State Bar of Texas, Health Law Section
  • Member, Houston Bar Association

Kwalifikacje

Wykształcenie
  • J.D., Duke University School of Law
    • Executive Editor, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
  • B.A., Duke University
Posiadane uprawnienia
  • Texas
Znajomość języków
  • hiszpański