Program Details
2026-09-29 12:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-09-29 12:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ESTThis session examines the accelerating state-level enforcement wave targeting Corporate Practice of Medicine violations in MSO-PC structures, with California’s 2026 AG settlements, the pending Art Center Holdings appeal, and new legislation in Oregon and beyond as the organizing framework. Attorneys will learn which specific contract provisions in continuity agreements, management agreements, and governance documents now create per se enforcement risk and how to restructure them. Attendees will leave with actionable criteria for auditing existing MSO agreements, redrafting replacement rights and clinical-control provisions, and counseling clients through pending compliance deadlines in jurisdictions operating on staggered timelines.
Paul DeeringerPatrick T. Zanayed 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm ESTThis session covers the mechanics of closing physician-practice and med spa acquisitions under the wave of state transaction-review laws enacted in 2024–2025, with a state-by-state analysis of notice periods, approval authority, and filing obligations. Attorneys will learn how to map a target’s multi-state footprint against overlapping regulatory regimes, sequence deal timelines to account for staggered notice windows, and diligence MSO/friendly-PC structures for post-closing viability. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for identifying filing triggers, distinguishing notice-only from substantive-approval states, and avoiding the most common compliance failures that derail healthcare transactions.
Paul DeeringerPatrick T. ZanayedPaul Deeringer is a Partner in the Business Department at Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, the nation’s largest law firm dedicated exclusively to health care. Paul rejoined HLB after nearly 14 years in senior leadership at John Muir Health, a $2.6 billion California integrated health system, most recently as SVP and Chief Strategy Officer. That dual background as both outside counsel and health system executive gives him firsthand insight into how corporate practice of medicine rules play out in practice – from structuring friendly PC medical group arrangements to negotiating professional services agreements and leading physician alignment transactions. His practice today spans business transactions, hospital-physician integration, and fraud and abuse counselling and advising, with particular focus on California’s CPOM framework and the operational realities of building MSO-friendly structures that hold up to regulatory scrutiny. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. from Princeton University.
Patrick Zanayed represents private equity funds, digital health companies, strategic investors, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health facilities, senior care facilities, physician practices, and dental practices in a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. He also has deep experience advising on pharma services, clinical research, and health technology transactions.
Patrick has assisted clients in connection with numerous transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dissolutions, and management and professional service arrangements, as well as the creation of multi-state physician practice management and telehealth structures. He also regularly advises clients with respect to corporate practice of medicine laws, state and federal telehealth laws, pharmacy laws, the fraud and abuse laws including the Anti-Kickback Statute, Beneficiary Inducements Civil Monetary Penalty Law, the Stark law and other federal and state legal, regulatory and business issues affecting healthcare providers and facilities.
Paul Deeringer is a Partner in the Business Department at Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, the nation’s largest law firm dedicated exclusively to health care. Paul rejoined HLB after nearly 14 years in senior leadership at John Muir Health, a $2.6 billion California integrated health system, most recently as SVP and Chief Strategy Officer. That dual background as both outside counsel and health system executive gives him firsthand insight into how corporate practice of medicine rules play out in practice – from structuring friendly PC medical group arrangements to negotiating professional services agreements and leading physician alignment transactions. His practice today spans business transactions, hospital-physician integration, and fraud and abuse counselling and advising, with particular focus on California’s CPOM framework and the operational realities of building MSO-friendly structures that hold up to regulatory scrutiny. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. from Princeton University.
Patrick Zanayed represents private equity funds, digital health companies, strategic investors, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral health facilities, senior care facilities, physician practices, and dental practices in a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. He also has deep experience advising on pharma services, clinical research, and health technology transactions.
Patrick has assisted clients in connection with numerous transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dissolutions, and management and professional service arrangements, as well as the creation of multi-state physician practice management and telehealth structures. He also regularly advises clients with respect to corporate practice of medicine laws, state and federal telehealth laws, pharmacy laws, the fraud and abuse laws including the Anti-Kickback Statute, Beneficiary Inducements Civil Monetary Penalty Law, the Stark law and other federal and state legal, regulatory and business issues affecting healthcare providers and facilities.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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