Rick Hindmand

Healthcare | Business counseling | Data privacy and cybersecurity

Rick helps healthcare professionals, organizations and advisers structure their operations and arrangements to address legal, compliance and business challenges while advancing and protecting their interests.

Rick focuses his practice on healthcare regulatory, data privacy, cybersecurity, corporate, and transactional matters. Rick represents physicians and other healthcare providers and organizations in structuring group practices, joint ventures, ambulatory surgery centers, provider networks, and physician / hospital affiliations, as well as arrangements to provide professional and ancillary services, telehealth, chronic care management, remote patient monitoring, and physician in-office dispensing. His services extend to various corporate and transactional matters, including practice acquisitions and managed care, billing, management, compensation, employment, independent contractor, and other service arrangements.

Rick assists healthcare providers and businesses in developing and implementing proactive approaches to identify and address existing and potential compliance challenges.

He counsels clients on regulatory, fraud and abuse, data privacy and cybersecurity, reimbursement and professional practice issues, including compliance with the Stark physician self-referral law, state self-referral laws, federal and state anti-kickback laws, and corporate practice and fee-splitting restrictions.

Rick provides guidance with respect to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and the HITECH Breach Notification Rule, working with HIPAA covered entities and business associates to implement and update policies, procedures and related safeguards for the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI).

Rick also assists covered entities and business associates in assessing whether a data breach occurred and in reporting and responding to breaches of PHI and in responding to HIPAA investigations and enforcement activities.

Rick earned a J.D., cum laude, from University of Michigan Law School in 1986. He received a B.A., with honors, from Northwestern University in 1981.