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Long-Term Care

Skilled nursing facilities face intense scrutiny on all fronts – from federal, state, and even local governments. When seeking regulatory defense or help with corporate compliance, you need counsel that offers both deep legal experience and key business insights. Much offers this powerful confluence of resources, with our clients always at the center.

Long-Term Care

The experience to fuel your passion and opportunities. 
Whether you are operating, buying, or selling a long-term care facility, regulatory obstacles abound. Steering around them and navigating a clear course requires both legal acumen and real-world experience on both the government and operator sides. This is especially true if you find yourself facing allegations of survey, billing, or other issues from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) or your state department of public health.  

After our decades working together as a team in this growing market, there’s not much we haven’t seen. We know how the regulators, buyers, and sellers think because our attorneys have sat in each of those chairs themselves. So, whether discussing new growth plans and deals, handling your regulatory and compliance work, resolving issues and disputes, or defending you when you get into trouble, your Much team is prepared to support you for the long haul.  

Experience

Much Attorneys Earn Summary Judgment for Nursing Facility in Wage and Hour Class Action
  • Counseling: We advise on day-to-day operational concerns, employment issues, administrative matters, vendor agreements, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and real estate and construction issues. 
  • Transactions: Our team has deep experience handling mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, financings, and investments.  
  • Regulatory matters: We are well-versed in compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statute and other federal fraud and abuse laws, the Stark law, Medicare and Medicaid survey and certification standards, state licensure requirements, certificates of need laws, and other regulations. 
  • Litigation and dispute resolution: Our attorneys handle regulatory and civil litigation against federal and state governmental agencies, dispute resolution, and governmental and law enforcement investigations.

Trending & Horizon Issues

  • Long-term care facilities suffering “long COVID” symptoms: The pandemic’s repercussions on the industry’s workforce will be felt for some time. On the positive front, nursing and other staff have finally been recognized for the important work they do. Facing rising risks and stress levels, however, many health care professionals have changed jobs within the industry or left it entirely. And vaccine mandates for health care workers have placed even more stress on already strained staffing ratios. If your nurses or certified nursing assistants are out sick or simply unwilling to get vaccinated, you risk an inability to provide quality care, decreased resident census, and losing your funding – all of which can threaten your business. We understand these pressures and will do everything we can to help you navigate these new waters.
  • The dog chases the cat, the cat chases the mouse: COVID-19 driven labor costs have skyrocketed in a way that far exceeds government reimbursement rates. Long-term care is an industry under extreme stress – and no provider is immune. Governors look to directors of state public health departments, who in turn look to the stressed-out surveyors, who turn to you by finding all sorts of survey violations at your facility. As a result, more and more long-term care providers are faced with the possibility of filing for bankruptcy protection. If the current environment is stressing you out, give us a call. We can’t do away with these external forces, but we can help you position yourself to withstand them optimally.

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