Nursing Homes

Abrams Fensterman represents over one hundred fifty (150) skilled nursing facilities with a team which includes attorneys, nurse attorneys, a former Assistant Attorney General, and the former director of social work at a skilled nursing facility. In addition, we have affiliations with coding experts as well as compliance and quality improvement consultants. Our representation of such facilities is wide ranging and includes the following matters and issues:

• Development and implementation of corporate compliance programs including internal audits and self-disclosures
• Criminal, civil and administrative investigations, audits and actions by the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, New York State Attorney General's Office Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, New York State Department of Health, United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as other federal and State health care oversight agencies
• Collection and reimbursement recovery to reduce accounts receivables by pursuing all available third-party coverage (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, managed care) for health care reimbursement using administrative and judicial remedies, such as appeals, private collection actions, guardianships and estate proceedings
• New York State Department of Health surveys and plans of correction
• Legal advice, counsel and representation in connection with the negotiation of ancillary provider agreements
• Certificate of Need applications
• Physician agreements
• Guardianship proceedings
• Resident treatment and decision-making issues and advance directives (e.g., DNR, Health Care Proxy and Living Wills)
• Discharge planning
• General corporate and business issues
• Regulatory matters
• HIPAA
• Real estate development and financing
• Immigration