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Brown McCarroll, L.L.P. works with the following types of healthcare providers:

  • Ambulatory surgery centers
  • Behavioral health organizations
  • Governmental entities (MHMR Centers, Hospital Districts, County Hospitals)
  • Hospitals (rural/independent, network/systems)
  • Labs/Diagnostic testing centers
  • Long-term care facilities (nursing homes, assisted living facilities)
  • Individual physicians
  • Medical groups
  • Management companies
  • Healthcare provider suppliers and vendors
  • Healthcare entrepreneurs
  • Other ancillary healthcare providers

Representation of group practices has included the following scope of work:

  • Manage all transactional work for multi-specialty clinic with over 150 doctors.
  • Oversee all organizational and entrepreneurial work for one of the largest orthopedic groups in Texas.
  • National representation of company which provides foreign nurses for employment by U.S. hospitals.
  • Manage transactional and organizational work for several hospitals and hospital systems.
  • Organization of IPAs throughout the State of Texas, which have included groups with as few as three to over 250 physicians.

Brown McCarroll has assisted more than 40 hospitals, ranging from components of large hospital networks to rural independents, with their legal needs. The Firm’s experience includes:

  • Representation of a coalition of major non-profit, tax-exempt tertiary institutions in the creation of a network of managed care organizations. The Firm’s involvement included the development of the organizational structure, development of all contracts between providers and physicians and the network, and conducting a study of the antitrust implications regarding the development of a provider-sponsored network.
  • Development of a managed care plan for a major governmental tertiary hospital. The project included development of the employers’ health plan in addition to the normal contracting and related legal work necessary to develop a PHO.
  • Involvement in all aspects of development, including regulatory and corporate issues, in creating a similar multi-system managed care organization for a large out-of-state coalition of both non-profit and for-profit hospitals.
  • Development of a major network of tertiary and primary care hospitals to form a network of PHOs. The involved facilities ranging from tertiary to small rural hospitals. The project included PHO development at the local hospital level and the formation of a regional network.
  • Creation, organization, and operation of provider-based managed care organizations such as IPAs, counseling about the corporate practice of medicine prohibitions, management service organizations, physician/hospital organizations, and other joint venture managed care entities.
  • Representation of major hospital districts in urban areas in the creation of HMOs for participating in Medicaid Managed Care and the Children's Health Insurance Program.