John B. Beard

Practice Areas

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John Beard concentrates his practice in business and health care transactions and has extensive experience with tax-exempt health care organization matters.

Mr. Beard's practice is focused on hospital/physician practice acquisitions, physician compensation and compensation models, hospital/physician alignment and affiliation structures, joint ventures and physician hospital organizations, mergers and acquisitions, health care tax exemption issues for hospitals, and other exempt organizations, private offerings and securities compliance matters, and corporate, limited liability company and partnership matters.

He has extensive experience with respect to tax exempt health care organization matters. Mr. Beard's practice also includes business, tax, corporate and federal and state health care regulatory compliance matters for exempt, governmental or for-profit health care providers, including the Stark law, the Anti-Kickback law, civil monetary penalties, the corporate practice of medicine, provider-based facilities, and service line structures involving medical and radiation oncology, cardiology, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery, pulmonology, gastroenterology, nephrology, primary care physicians and multi-specialty clinics.

Other areas of Mr. Beard's practice include analysis of antitrust matters for health care entities and employee benefit matters.