Michel A. LaFond focuses his practice on corporate finance, general business and regulatory matters, substantially in the health care industry. He is counsel to physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers, healthcare service companies and medical device companies. He has counseled on general corporate and contract matters, private and public debt and equity offerings, mergers and acquisitions, Medicare/Medicaid fraud and abuse, Stark physician anti-referral legislation and other federal and state healthcare regulations that apply to such providers, service companies and medical device companies. Mr. LaFond previously was the Leader of Sulloway’s Healthcare Group and previously was an elected member of the Executive Committee.

He has counseled hospitals on the structure and financing of facilities, the structure and implementation of joint ventures of hospitals and physicians, the organization of physician-hospital organizations, the negotiation and preparation of health plan provider contracts and other matters. He has networked and reorganized a number of medical practice groups, and integrated medical group networks and counseled physicians and medical practice groups on the structure and financing of freestanding outpatient diagnostic and treatment facilities, physician/hospital organizations, management services organizations, physician practice management companies and integrated delivery systems, provider contracts with health plans and other matters. In addition, he has represented preferred provider organizations and health maintenance organizations and has participated in the start-up and licensing of a number of new health maintenance organizations.

Mr. LaFond has authored a number of articles and made a number of presentations, locally and nationally, regarding integrated delivery systems and the attendant antitrust, physician anti-referral and fraud and abuse issues. He has co-authored with John F. McCally, Physician Practice Management Redefined: The Move to Integrated Practice Organizations, published by McGraw-Hill, in 1998.

He is a graduate of Yale University and received his J.D. degree from American University Law School in 1970. From 1970-1972 he was a law clerk to Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun at the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a Fellow, past member of the Board of Directors and past Chair of the Physician Organization Substantive Law Committee of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Mr. LaFond is admitted to practice law in Minnesota, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Iowa and Texas.

Mr. LaFond is AV rated in Martindale-Hubbell and recognized in Best Lawyers in America – Health Care Law.

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