Health

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Spencer R. Knapp    Ritchie E. Berger


Practice Profile
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C. has a substantial depth and range of experience in health law. We represent health care providers, insurers and health systems in resolving complex issues.


Areas of Concentration
Our extensive experience in health law includes the following:


    Hospitals and Health Systems
    For more than fifty years, we have regularly represented hospitals and health care systems on a wide range of health care issues, including tax exempt financings, corporate reorganizations, acquisitions, tax matters, payment and reimbursement problems, certificate of need proceedings, managed care initiatives, PHO's, physician practice acquisitions, anti-trust problems, assisted living projects, and professional relations issues.

    Home Health

    We represent home health agencies on the range of current issues affecting their services and are particularly sensitive to the financial, reimbursement, managed care and anti-trust issues affecting the non-profit home care industry.

    Long Term Care

    We represent nursing homes and other long term care providers in connection with reimbursement, rate-setting, regulatory compliance and related issues, and have particular experience in nursing home acquisitions.

    Individual Providers and Practice Groups

    We represent physicians, physician groups and other individual providers in connection with numerous health care matters, including managed care negotiations and contracting.

    Health Care Litigation

    In connection with our litigation practice, we regularly defend health care providers in professional malpractice and related litigation.  We have handled the defense of malpractice and professional liability cases for almost every hospital and health care organization in Vermont, and a great number of the physicians and individual providers. We are currently handling the defense of more than 50 medical malpractice cases, representing physicians and hospitals in virtually every court in Vermont.
Our health care practice group is comprised of attorneys with specific areas of expertise to meet the diverse legal needs of our health care clients. The health care practice group remains current on legal issues affecting the industry. We speak and present papers regularly at local and national meetings and seminars on legal issues of special interest to Vermont health care organizations. We appear regularly before state agencies affecting the health care industry.


Client Resources
For additional resources related to health care in Vermont and health law issues, please contact these sites:


Health Care Industry Associations and News

American Hospital Association
American Medical Association
American Health Lawyers Association
Healthcare Financial Management Association
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations

Vermont Health Care Organizations
Vermont Health Care Association
Vermont MedNet
Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems
VNA Health Systems of Vermont

Vermont Area Hospitals and Health Centers
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
The Brattleboro Retreat
Central Vermont Medical Center
Fletcher Allen Health Care
Gifford Medical Center
Health Care & Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vermont
North Country Hospital
Northwestern Medical Center
Porter Medical Center
Rutland Regional Medical Center
VA Medical/Regional Office Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Regulatory Agencies
Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care Administration
Vermont Department of Health
US Department of Health & Human Services
US Food & Drug Administration
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)

Periodicals/News
Reuters Health Information Services
The New England Journal of Medicine (table of contents available by e-mail)
Modern HealthCare

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