The healthcare industry operates in a complex
and ever-changing legal and regulatory environment. As these changes
occur, they often have a dramatic, and negative, impact on the bottom
line.
We help our healthcare clients manage
change. When Congress enacted legislation in 1997 that drastically
altered the Medicare and Medicare reimbursement programs, we were there to
guide our clients through the restructurings that enabled them to stay alive,
and ultimately to thrive.
Representative Clients & Cases:
- Mariner Post-Acute Network, Inc. / Mariner Health Group – ST&G
represented the debtors in these highly complex and successful
chapter 11 cases involving skilled nursing facilities, long term care facilities, institutional pharmacy services, and other business lines.
- Maxicare, Inc. – ST&G represented the debtor, a
California licensed
HMO, in this successful chapter 11 case.
- Nu-Med, Inc. – ST&G represented the debtor in this successful
chapter 11 case.
- Sun Healthcare Group, Inc. – ST&G represented the debtor as
special counsel to address certain postconfirmation matters regarding plan
implementation.
- UHP Healthcare – ST&G currently represents the debtor, a
California licensed
HMO, in its chapter 11 case. A chapter
11 plan of reorganization was confirmed and creditors were paid in full.
- Valley Health System – ST&G currently represents the debtor, a
California Health Care District, in its chapter 9 case. At the time the case was filed, the
debtor owned and operated 3 acute care hospitals, a skilled nursing
facility and provided other health care related services to a community of
approximately 100,000 people. During the course of the case, we have successfully: (1) avoided
the appointment of a patient ombudsman, generally required under the
Bankruptcy Code, (2) resolved complex legal issues with the debtor's unions
following a year of litigation, (3) protected the client from efforts by
its bondholders to force the debtor to provide "adequate
protection", (4) closed the sale of one of the debtor's hospitals,
(5) negotiated and documented the sale of the debtor's remaining hospital
assets and completed a 6 day plan confirmation trial involving myriad
issues pertaining to provisions of the California Government Code, Health
and Safety Code and environmental laws.
- Century
City
Doctors
Hospital – ST&G currently represents
the senior secured prepetition lenders and
postpetition financiers in this chapter 7 case.
- Brotman
Medical
Center – ST&G
represented a secured creditor in this chapter 11 case.
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