Barron Bogatto

Practice Areas

Healthcare & Life Sciences; Corporate & Securities

Career

Barron Bogatto is a partner in the Healthcare practice group and actively participates in the Corporate & Securities and Real Estate industry groups at Jackson Walker's Houston office. His corporate, transactional, and regulatory practice centers almost exclusively on the provision of comprehensive legal services to the healthcare industry. Barron has advised healthcare providers of all types in matters relating to Medicare, Medicaid, and other governmental program laws and regulations; reimbursement controversies; administrative appeals; corporate, real estate, finance, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and other business transactions; corporate and health regulatory compliance matters; operational and employment matters; medical practice structuring, governance, and restructuring; and the formation and operation of provider networks.

Barron has substantial experience regarding healthcare regulatory issues and restrictions involving healthcare fraud and abuse, false claims, and physician anti-referral matters affecting healthcare joint ventures and integrated delivery systems; governmental healthcare program reimbursement; health industry mergers & acquisitions; hospital/physician relationships and joint ventures; and a host of other legal issues affecting hospitals, clinics, and other providers.

Professional Memberships

Texas Bar College; State Bar of Texas Health Law, Corporate, and Real Estate Sections; American Health Lawyers Association; Healthcare Financial Management Association; Healthcare Compliance Association; Houston Bar Association; The Immunization Partnership; San José Clinic

Work Highlights

Barron represented three separate national healthcare systems having a total of 67 hospitals in the settlement of over 21 separate PRRB group appeals of the rural floor budget neutrality issue with the DOJ and CMS OGC for over $50 million in Medicare reimbursement. He also represented a children’s specialty hospital in the creation and structuring of its 5.01a Texas Certified Nonprofit Healthcare Organization and the purchase of over 30 multi-physician group practices valued over millions of dollars in the aggregate and the employment of over 120 pediatricians. In addition, he assisted a Texas Hospital District in the sale of its acute care hospital and related facilities to a national for-profit hospital company with requirements for the company to build the community a new state-of-the-art hospital facility and provide on-going indigent care at specified levels.

Clients

- National for-profit healthcare systems

- A non-profit hospital system with facilities in several states

- Individual for-profit and non-profit acute care hospitals (both urban and rural)

- Texas hospital authorities and hospital districts

- One of the largest children’s specialty hospitals in the nation

- State-sponsored medical schools, academic medical centers, and teaching hospitals

- Numerous certified non-profit healthcare organizations (a/k/a 5.01a corporations)

- Healthcare Management Companies

- Physician practice management companies (MSOs)

- Healthcare billing and collection companies

- Home healthcare agencies

- Rural health clinics

- Imaging centers

- Ambulatory surgery centers

- An endoscopy center

- Cancer treatment facilities, a proton therapy center, and IMRT radiation therapy facilities

- Clinics and large physician single and multi-specialty groups, including internists, family practitioners, pediatricians, orthopedists, OB/Gyns, anesthesiologists, cardiologists, ER physicians, hospitalists, radiologists, pathologists, rheumatologists, oral surgeons, ophthalmologists, and other sub-specialists

- Individual physicians and dentists

- Biotechnology companies

- Telemedicine providers

- Pharmacies, compounding and retail

Education