Lynn Gordon

Lynn's practice focuses in the area of corporate and regulatory healthcare law, with a particular emphasis on the transactional, regulatory and operational legal counsel needs of hospitals, health systems, and specialty provider groups, including mergers and acquisitions, healthcare joint ventures, contract drafting and negotiations, physician integration, Stark, Anti-kickback and IRC 501(c)(3) regulatory compliance, and Medicare and Medicaid recoupment and repayment (self-disclosure) matters.

Her projects have included:

Health system, hospital, nursing home, physician practice, home health and other provider mergers, affiliations, acquisitions, divestitures and changes of control.
Complex joint ventures, including ASTCs, Gamma Knife®, CyberKnife, MRIs, COEs, PBTs, Rehab.
Specialized contracts for complex contractual arrangements, including clinical co-management.
Medical Staff matters (e.g., hearings, appeals, NPDB reporting, anti-trust).
Stark, Anti-kickback, intermediate sanctions and governmental reimbursement rule compliance investigations and corresponding self-disclosures.
Disputing Medicare and Medicaid recoupment demands.

Lynn has been quoted in numerous publications, including:

Crain’s Chicago Business, “Prescription: sell practice”
Medicare Compliance Alert, “Cash-strapped doctors have limited options when the landlord is a provider”
Medicare Compliance Alert, “Rent past due: Consider these options to stay in your office and compliance”

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Ungaretti & Harris Attorneys and Practices Ranked in Banking & Finance, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, Corporate, Healthcare, and Labor & Employment Practice groups and individual attorneys recognized by clients and peers
Chambers USA: Ungaretti & Harris Attorneys and Practices Ranked in Banking & Finance, Corporate, Healthcare, and Labor & Employment Practice groups and individual attorneys recognized by clients and peers
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Part One Written Materials to Accompany Presentation-Consolidation in a Rapidly Changing Industry: Navigating Options, Antitrust and Other Obstacles American Health Lawyers Association Forum
Medical Staff Closure Antitrust Considerations Health Care Law Monthly
Electronic Health Records: Legal Perils with Stark and Anti-Kickback Laws
A Warning for Competing ASCs and Hospitals Outpatient Surgery Magazine
Hospital-Physician Joint Marketing Compliance Guidelines The Health Lawyer, Volume 21, Number 2, December 2008 Lynn Gordon Authors Article in The Health Lawyer

Distinctions

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008-2012)
Leading Lawyers Network 2013

Presentations

“Consolidation in a Rapidly Changing Industry: Navigating Options, Antitrust and Other Obstacles,” American Health Lawyers Association, Hospitals and Health Systems Law Institute, February 12, 2013
“Are You Next? Proactive Strategies to Address Government Investigations, Recoupment Demands and Repayment Obligations,” Ungaretti & Harris Webinar, April 19, 2012
"Health System Collaboration & Merger Activity: Drivers, Models, Legal Hurdles and a Sample Transaction," Healthcare Provider Transformation Summit, Creative Partnership Strategies for the New Era, April 11, 2012
"Legal Perils with Stark and Anti-kickback," American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Conference, EMR and Other Technologies: Revolutionary Change in Orthopaedic Practice, June 13, 2010
"Healthcare USA: Past, Present, and Future," Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, October 9, 2009
"HIPAA Compliance: HITECH Breach Notifications" Catholic Health Association Fall Compliance Officers' Meeting, October 6, 2009
“Tax Exempt Status in Not-for-Profit Healthcare: Inalienable Right or Moving Target?" Alexian Brothers Health System 2009 Governance Retreat, October 2, 2009
"Baucus, Grassley and the New Era in Washington," The Continuing Challenges to the Charitable Exemption of Illinois Not for Profit Hospitals, Chicago Conference, November 26, 2008
“Physician Joint Ventures: Risk-Free or Risky?” American Health Lawyers Association 2006 Annual Meeting and In-House Counsel Program, June 25, 2006
“Hospital Tax-Exemption & Charity Care Standards,” Loyola University Chicago School of Law, April 12, 2006
“Unintended consequences?” Illinois Charity Care Legislation: A New Health Plan for Illinois? Chicago Conference, February 21, 2006
Regulatory compliance & joint venture presentations, Resurrection Health Care, Chicago, 2005
“Coordinated Examination Program, Intermediate Sanctions and the Exempt Health Care Organization: A New Day in IRS Enforcement Activity,” Medicare Reimbursement Compliance Strategies for Healthcare Financial Executives, Healthcare Financial Management Association, May 2002
“Compliance and Enforcement: Fraud & Abuse and Stark,” Medicare Reimbursement Compliance Strategies for Healthcare Financial Executives, Healthcare Financial Management Association, May 2002

Memberships

American Health Lawyers Association
Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys
American Bar Association, Health Law Section