Richard D. Ellingsen

Rick Ellingsen is a healthcare regulatory attorney with more than 25 years' experience representing a wide range of institutional and professional healthcare providers, including healthcare management companies, health systems, medical groups and IPAs. He provides a broad range of legal services, concentrating on delivery systems, transactions, medico-legal matters and regulatory compliance.

Practice Highlights

• Counsels clients in areas such as physician self-referral (i.e., the federal Stark Law and its state law counterparts), regulatory compliance, and fraud and abuse
• Assists hospitals, physicians, ancillary service providers, health plans and others in formation and operation of joint ventures, and in the development and implementation of compliance programs
• Assists hospitals, physician groups and multi-hospital organizations in the development of physician hospital organizations, IPAs, and other delivery system components
• Represents hospitals, physicians, IPAs, and other physician organizations in the negotiation of professional services contracts, recruitment agreements, and regulatory and compliance issues arising in the context of such negotiations