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Scott P. Downing
Partner
77 West Wacker Drive
sdowning@mcguirewoods.comSuite 4100 Chicago, Illinois 60601-1818 F: 312.920.6126 |
Mr. Downing focuses his practice on structuring issues for healthcare companies, including joint ventures among various providers and with non-provider third parties. He has also participated in numerous transactions involving the purchase or sale of healthcare facilities representing both buyers and sellers of such companies. He has extensive experience assisting ancillary service providers with all of their healthcare regulatory and corporate needs, including ambulatory surgery centers, dialysis facilities and specialty hospitals, as well as counseling large physician practices on the appropriate way to structure the provision of ancillary services by such practices.
- Assisted numerous parties (physicians and institutional participants) concerning a variety of health care ventures regarding organizational and operational issues for joint ventures, practice and multiprovider integrations and other single specialty and multispecialty facilities including dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals (including single specialty and physician-owned hospitals), and physician practices.
- Negotiated numerous transactions concerning the sale and acquisition of health care entities including ambulatory surgery centers, dialysis facilities, specialty hospitals, imaging facilities, hospital divisions and physician practices.
- Negotiated and prepared documentation concerning single specialty and multispecialty physician practices including the organization, operation, purchase of and exit strategies for such practices.
- Negotiated and prepared physician employment agreements.
- Counseled health care clients regarding compliance with the Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse laws, the Stark Act, state fraud and abuse and self referral acts, certificate of need issues, fee splitting and corporate practice of medicine issues, regulatory compliance program issues, and public and private securities laws issues.
- Associate Editor, Business Lawyer, American Bar Association Publication, 1993-1994
- Mr. Downing has authored or co-authored a variety of articles on business and legal topics affecting the firm's health care clients.
- Mr. Downing routinely speaks to industry and trade groups concerning legal and business issues in health care.
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Board of Directors, Naked Eye Theatre Company (Nonprofit)
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EDUCATION University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, J.D., 1991 University of Illinois, B.A., 1988 ADMITTED Illinois 1991 |

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