This dynamic and rapidly changing field presents health-care professionals and organizations with many difficult challenges. Ferro Labella & Zucker provides counseling on issues ranging from medical practice formations and mergers to investigations and complaints by Professional Boards. For example, the firm’s attorneys recently assisted in the formation of a physicians’ group and then negotiated a service contract between that group and a major New Jersey hospital. The firm regularly advises clients in connection with fraud and abuse investigations and prosecutions by federal and state government and local agencies.

The firm represents physicians, medical and mental-health professionals, groups, and related businesses in:

● formation, merger, acquisition, and sale of practices
● financing practices
● buy-sell arrangements
● employment arrangements and practice management
● service and provider agreements
● civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions on a variety of      issues, including fraud and abuse and improper billing practices
● investigations and complaints by various New Jersey State
     Professional Boards
● regulatory compliance