Carolyn Merritt focuses her practice on a variety of health law issues, including
healthcare regulatory, compliance and operational issues. She has experience
representing hospital clients in the preparation, review and negotiation of
healthcare contracts, including contracts with physicians. Carolyn has also assisted
hospitals and other healthcare providers with due diligence, regulatory and
operational issues associated with changes of ownership. In addition, she regularly
advises clients as to compliance with state and federal fraud and abuse laws,
physician self-referral laws, EMTALA, healthcare privacy laws and reimbursement
issues. Carolyn provides guidance to her healthcare clients in a variety of health
law matters. She focuses her practice on a multitude of health law issues, including
healthcare regulatory, compliance and operational issues. She has demonstrated
prowess in understanding the complex issues hospital clients face in the
preparation, review and negotiation of an extensive variety of healthcare contracts,
including physician employment agreements, professional services agreements,
management agreements, and physician recruitment agreements, and is able to clearly
define its impact to her clients. Carolyn regularly assists healthcare clients with
due diligence, regulatory, contractual and operational issues associated with change
of ownership. Carolyn also has experience counseling hospital clients with
comprehensive audits of their financial relationships with physicians, and has
worked with clients in filing disclosures under the Self Referral Disclosure
Protocol. In addition, she educates clients as to compliance with state and federal
fraud and abuse laws, including the anti-kickback statute and Stark Law, EMTALA,
healthcare privacy laws, reimbursement, and risk management issues.
