Scott Shanker focuses his national healthcare practice on handling complex regulatory and transactional matters that help healthcare provider organizations achieve their business objectives. For nearly 25 years, Scott has advised a wide range of healthcare provider clients, including hospitals and health systems, specialty physician practices, surgery centers, and private equity-backed healthcare companies. He also has experience serving as outside general counsel to several healthcare companies that lean on Scott to make valuable day-to-day decisions covering critical regulatory and business matters.
Scott frequently assists hospitals and health systems with a range of transactions and joint ventures, including the acquisition and disposition of physician group practices, ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals, laboratories, and other healthcare businesses. Scott also leads regulatory due diligence for clients entering pivotal transactions, helping to identify and resolve regulatory and business risks.
Scott is well-versed in a range of regulatory and compliance issues faced by hospitals and health systems and other providers, including federal and state fraud and abuse laws and the physician self-referral prohibition commonly known as the Stark Law. Scott leverages his broad healthcare regulatory experience to help clients find practical solutions to complex regulatory and compliance issues in the context of both transactions and day-to-day operations.