Bruce D. Armon

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Experience

Commercial Contracting Issues

Bruce has vast experience drafting, editing and negotiating contracts for health care businesses. He also advises on payment and reimbursement issues, including those involving Medicare and Medicaid as well as private insurers.

  • Helping hundreds of physicians with employer contract and shareholder issues.
  • Helping many medical groups across many specialties add physicians as well as sell and acquire practices.
  • Helping clients navigate reimbursement issues with payors and with medical necessity issues.

Regulatory Compliance, Fraud and Abuse

Bruce regularly helps clients with compliance matters, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). He also provides counseling on complying with fraud and abuse statutes, including those involving the federal anti-kickback statute and the federal Stark law and related state fraud and abuse laws. 

  • Helping a large university without an academic medical center assess risks and develop a HIPAA compliance plan.
  • Helping an academic medical center and other providers with HIPAA compliance.
  • Drafting and editing many business associate and affiliation agreements.

Transactional Issues

Bruce has experience advising clients on mergers and acquisitions in the health care industry, including academic medical centers, hospitals, medical practices, nursing homes and ASCs.  

  • Assisting a large academic multi-hospital heath system in its acquisition of several community hospitals over multiple years.
  • Assisting ASCs in mergers, compliance issues and management agreements.
  • Selling a prominent long term care provider’s skilled nursing facility and land during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Assisting a Pennsylvania County in the sale of its county-owned nursing home and associated real estate.
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