James George Wiehl

Jim’s most current work includes:

Transactional

• Represented, as lead counsel, regional community hospital in developing an affiliation with a multi-billion dollar health care system
• Represented, as lead counsel, nationally recognized not-for-profit health care system in restructuring its affiliation with a regional hospital through a long-term lease arrangement
• Represented healthcare system in its affiliation with 15+ hospital multi-state health care system
• Represented, as lead counsel, regional health care system in developing management agreements by which sophisticated cardiology and neurosurgical groups undertook management of the system’s cardiovascular and neurosurgical service lines, as well as development of joint ventures for certain technical services
• Represented, as lead counsel, health care system’s restructuring of its investment in large multispecialty group, permitting group to spin off and sell on-going HMO operations
• Represented, as lead counsel, health care system’s integration with a large multi-specialty group
• Represented numerous hospitals and health care systems in the formation of joint ventures with physicians for the provision of cardiac catheterization services
• Represented numerous hospitals and health care systems in the creation of Ambulatory Surgery Center joint ventures with physicians
• Represented several hospitals and a large cardiovascular group in the formation of joint ventured heart hospitals
• Represented large health care system in the development and implementation of a radiology services joint venture with hospital based radiology group

Regulatory

• Represented hospital in defense and settlement of multi-million dollar false claim action brought by Federal government
• Represented the board of directors of hospital against claims of negligence, breach of fiduciary duties and negligent credentialing
• Represented health system in defense of qui tam action alleging upcoding of DRGs at client’s inpatient facilities
• Representation of several health care systems in investigation of billing and compensation irregularities, leading to resolution or voluntary disclosures to CMS
• Represented various hospitals and other health care providers in the development and implementation of corporate compliance programs

• “Perspectives on Best Practices for Health Care Transactions,” Inside the Minds: Structuring Health Care Partnerships, Agreements, and M&A Transactions, Aspatore, Inc., C-Level Business Intelligence, pages 97-122, 2007
• “Roles and Responsibilities of Nonprofit Health Care Board Members in the Post-Enron Era,” The Journal of Legal Medicine, 25:411-439, 2004
• Co-Author, “Gainsharing: A Call for Guidance”, Journal of Health Law, Vol. 32, No. 4, Fall 1999
• Co-Editor with Allan Fine, “Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems: Business and Legal Forms,” Thompson Publishing Group, 1994
• “Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems: A Guide to Successful Strategies for Hospital and Physician Collaboration,” Chapters 4 and 11, Thompson Publishing Group, 1993
• “The Direct Contracting Manual,” Capitol Publications, 1992
• “The Managed Care Contracting Manual,” Capitol Publications, Inc., 1990
• “Physician Integration: The Legal Pressures for Consolidation of Health Care Services,” St. Louis University Law Journal, Volume 34, No. 4, 1990

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