Practice Areas : Medical Staff Issues
Tsoules, Sweeney, Martin & Orr has substantial experience in representing hospitals, medical staffs and individual physicians in connection with hospital medical staff relations, including:
- drafting, reviewing and negotiating medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations;
- establishing independent practice associations and physician hospital organizations;
- representing hospitals, medical staffs and individual physicians in investigations, hearings, appeals and litigation involving revocation or suspension of medical staff privileges;
- drafting/analyzing credentialling policies and procedures;
- preparing medical staff development plans;
- analyzing National Practitioner Data Bank reporting requirements and other Health Care Quality Improvement Act compliance matters; and
- assessing the impact of institutional merger and affiliation decisions on medical staff relationships.