Former general counsel to medical centers in New York and New Jersey, Margaret is an experienced and effective health care attorney. She handles a broad spectrum of health care matters, including transactional, compliance, contractual, corporate, regulatory, governance, managed care/payer (including value-based arrangements) and risk management issues. Her clients include hospitals, physicians and physician groups, startup companies, FQHCs, home care agencies, pharmacies, laboratories, agencies for the developmentally disabled, care management companies, billing companies, nonprofit companies, health care IT vendors, telehealth providers, concierge medicine providers, alternative medicine entities, and a variety of other providers and entities in the health care space. She handles joint ventures, sales and acquisitions of practices and companies; formation of new entities and practices; structuring arrangements and relationships between health care entities; telehealth; bylaws and governance matters; physician-hospital contracts; affiliation and/or service contracts; employment agreements; managed care issues; IT contracts and issues; regulatory compliance; HIPAA; medical staff affairs; captive PCs and faculty practices; separation agreements; ambulatory surgery center joint ventures; CARES Act issues, and physician disciplinary matters. She has served as health care counsel in hospital bankruptcies and structured various management agreement arrangements between entities. She also provides legal advice in such areas as consent and confidentiality and frequently conducts corporate investigations and assists with internal compliance programs. She has also been involved with various long-term care issues and arrangements.

Rich is Co-Chair of the firm’s Nonprofit Organizations Group. His primary practice is devoted to: Forming private foundations, public charities, supporting organizations and other tax-exempt organizations; Addressing private foundation compliance issues, including self-dealing, qualifying distributions, excess business holdings and taxable expenditure responsibility; Preparing, adopting and interpreting corporate policies and best practices tailored to the specific structure and compliance requirements of the organization; Providing corporate governance advice (including advice on structuring and best practices, such as Sarbanes-Oxley practices) and preparing signatory and disbursement policies, conflict of interest policies and whistleblower policies; Preparing articles of incorporation, bylaws, consents, EIN Applications and applications for income tax exemption.