Michael Lampert provides strategic, regulatory, and transactional advice across the healthcare industry. He advises leading health systems, integrated systems, investors, value-based care platforms, academic medical centers, medical device companies and laboratories, and emerging providers. He is a seasoned counselor for clients on their most pressing situations, blending his deep industry knowledge, breadth of subject-matter expertise, and facility in business and adversarial legal settings.
Michael has extensive familiarity with fraud and abuse laws, in both an advisory and enforcement context, conflicts of interest standards and governance principles, and other regulation such as Medicare reimbursement rules, Medicare Advantage, requirements of accreditation bodies, and HIPAA. He also deploys that familiarity in mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, affiliations, and financings in both the for-profit and nonprofit context. In addition, Michael guides clients in rigorous governance and compliance program assessment and development projects against the backdrop of, and as a component of, federal investigations.
Experience
- Platform Development – Advised a multinational strategic operator in the healthcare space in design and development of a new clinical practice platform.
- Health System Operations and Transactions – Provided ongoing regulatory and transactional advice to a multi-state hospital system. Matters include hospital and physician practice acquisitions; ambulatory care management arrangements; development of accountable care organization and other structures for participating in innovative reimbursement models; hospital-physician relationships; internal compliance investigations; and representation in front of federal oversight and enforcement agencies.
- Risk-Based Contracting – Advised multiple organizations in development of risk-based provider contracting structures, including internal structuring, relationships with third parties in the provider ecosystem, and value-based care contracts with major payors.
- Academic Medicine – Advised a university in a strategic assessment and redesign of the relationship between its school of medicine and affiliated health system.
- Compliance – Counseled a major university in investigation of allegations of research misconduct and grant noncompliance, and assessment of related systems of compliance and oversight.
- Enforcement – Represented medical device manufacturers in investigations involving the Department of Justice, the HHS Office of Inspector General, and other agencies, with allegations involving the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act, and resolutions ranging from no-action decisions to formal settlements and negotiation of a Corporate Integrity Agreement.
- Conflicts of Interest – Worked with a teaching hospital in conducting an internal review of its individual and institutional conflicts of interest policies; an assessment of relationships with affiliated spin-off development companies; and development of conflict management plans.
- Incentive Compensation – Advised a hospital in development of a new incentive compensation system for currently employed and newly recruited physicians across varying specialties.
- Privacy – Counseled an emerging, consumer-focused and web-based health informatics provider in structural and operational HIPAA compliance.
- International – Advised an academic medical center in the structuring and development of international teaching and clinical programs across three continents.
- Pro Bono – Assisted a pro bono client in its organization of a charitable health care network in several Latin American countries and at the Vatican.