AREAS OF SPECIAL EXPERTISE We have been and continue to remain on the cutting edge of the healthcare law issues that face our physician clients. We work very hard to provide our clients with comprehensive, quality legal services on a timely, cost-effective basis. The members of the Firm are able to manage all of the healthcare law and related business needs of our clients. A hallmark of the Firm is the proactive representation of our clients. This approach allows our clients to respond successfully to the rapidly changing healthcare enviornment. We pride ourselves on attending to the particular needs of our clients, including scheduling telephone conferences and meetings at times to meet their sometimes unpredictable schedules. The following areas are representative of the specific matters in which the Firm regularly practices: General Healthcare Regulatory Law The healthcare law expertise of the Firm runs the gamut of the rules and regulations imposed by governmental and quasi-public agencies and organizations affecting physicians and medical organizations, including the limitations of physician self-referrals, Medicare fraud and abuse and state anti-kickback prohibitions, and the privacy requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Healthcare Business Transactions The Firm represents its clients in all aspects of their general business transactions including the purchase and sale of professional practices, and the formation, merger and reorganization of professional group practices, physician recruitment, and joint ventures. Joint Venture Transactions The Firm assists its medical group and physician clients to identify and exploit joint venture opportunities with strategic partners. These arrangements include the development of specialty surgical hospitals and freestanding ambulatory surgical centers. Centers of Excellence The Firm is actively involved in the development of state of the art facilities designed to provide a wide array of inpatient and outpatient specialty services in a clinically effective manner within a dedicated facility. A primary objective of these arrangements is to allow our medical group clients to forge strategic alliances with the hospitals at which they work. Ancillary Service Product Lines We help our medical group clients to identify additional in office ancillary services to better treat their patients and to create sources of supplemental revenue. In this regard, the Firm is extensively involved with helping our clients develop ancillary service product lines such as diagnostic imaging, clinical laboratories, ambulatory surgical centers, and physical therapy services and programs. Compensation and Buy-Sell Strategies The Firm provides advice concerning compensation methodologies that attempt to meet the needs of both the medical organization and its constituent physician owners and employees. The Firm works hard to align compensation methodologies with the individual culture of each medical organization. In this same role, the Firm provides advice regarding ownership admission and exit strategies, including equity redemption formulas and restrictions on post-withdrawal competition by former owners. Peer Review Matters The Firm is well-known for its representation of physicians, medical staffs and medical groups in peer review disciplinary matters. Given its extensive experience in the peer review process, the Firm is often able to anticipate the strategy of the opposition in formal disciplinary proceedings. This insight frequently gives the Firm a unique advantage in such matters. Hospital-Based Provider Arrangements The Firm advises many hospital-based physician groups with their exclusive contracting needs. The Firm is very experienced in analyzing and negotiating the potential "gotchas" in hospital-based provider agreements. Third Party Payer Contracting The Firm is experienced in preparing and negotiating fee-for-service, capitation and sub-capitation contracts. Moreover, the Firm aggressively represents our medical group and physician clients in their contracting arrangements with preferred provider organizations, health maintenance organizations, and other managed healthcare entities.