Valerie Breslin Montague

Valerie is an associate and a member of the Healthcare Practice Group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of health law, including elder law, charitable care compliance, federal tax-exemption, sales and property tax-exemption, corporate restructuring, Certificate of Need issues, HIPAA compliance, Medicare and Medicaid compliance and fraud and abuse issues. Valerie works with a variety of different healthcare clients, including: hospitals, long-term care facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, independent diagnostic testing facilities, insurance companies, and physician practice groups.

Valerie’s experience includes:

• Advising a tax-exempt healthcare system on the requirements for providing electronic health records and e-prescribing subsidies to physicians and drafting agreements for the provision of such subsidies.
• Advising a healthcare conversion foundation on formation and tax-exemption issues.
• Assisting with hospital-physician joint ventures.
• Assisting a major national insurance carrier on HIPAA compliance issues.
• Assisting hospital and long-term care systems with state health license applications, Medicare applications, sales and property tax-exemption applications, and federal tax-exemption applications.
• Assisting Illinois hospitals and long-term care facilities with Certificate of Need issues, including preparation of permit and exemption applications and drafting declaratory ruling requests.
• Negotiating HIPAA Business Associate Agreements for large benefits management corporation.
• Preparing and updating HIPAA Privacy Rule and Security Rule policies and procedures for healthcare facilities.
• Drafting administrative hearing briefs for long-term care facilities.
• Aiding long-term care systems with complete corporate restructuring, including incorporating new entities, drafting organizational documents, transferring licenses, and obtaining state approval of the structure.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating numerous hospital contracts, including exclusive arrangements with specialty groups, medical director agreements, physician employment agreements and informed consent agreements.
• Advising healthcare facilities on Medicare and Medicaid compliance issues.
• Researching Stark law and Anti-Kickback statute issues for hospitals and physician groups.
• Drafting and reviewing residency contracts for long-term care facilities.
• Assisting a healthcare system with a charitable care audit and revisions to charitable care policies and procedures.