Nesrin Tift helps healthcare companies navigate the crossroads between increasingly stringent healthcare compliance laws and the shifting reimbursement landscape towards payment for performance and access to care. Her clients include national and regional hospitals, physician practices, ambulatory surgical centers, ambulance providers, managed care organizations, revenue cycle management companies and other healthcare companies.
She has significant experience advising clients with respect to healthcare fraud and abuse issues, compliance and operations, managed care, telemedicine initiatives, and health information privacy and security. In addition, Nesrin represents healthcare organizations in mergers, acquisitions and other transactions through her analysis of healthcare compliance issues, billing and reimbursement compliance and other issues impacting transactions.
American Health Law Association (AHLA)
Nashville Health Care Council — Leadership Health Care, Board of Directors (2016-2019), Membership and Marketing Committee (2015-2016)
Health Care Compliance Association
Representation of New Harbor Capital’s portfolio company Psych Associates of Maryland, the largest outpatient mental health group in Maryland, in its acquisition of Comprehensive Behavioral Health, a leading multidisciplinary mental health treatment provider. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Representation of Addus HomeCare (Nasdaq: ADUS), a leading provider of home care services, in its cash acquisition of Chicago-based Summit Home Health, LLC. The transaction further adds clinical services to the Company’s largest market in Illinois.
Representation of Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ: ADUS) in its $29.1 million acquisition of three affiliated entities: Armada Skilled Home Care of New Mexico, LLC, Armada Hospice of New Mexico, LLC and Armada Hospice of Santa Fe, LLC. This acquisition expands Addus HomeCare’s home health and hospice services in the state of New Mexico.
Representation of Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) – a healthcare and technology focused middle milled-market private equity firm – and Providence Ventures – the Venture capital arm of Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH) and nation’s third largest health system – in its $15 million Series A funding round of Kno2, a healthcare interoperability technology platform.
Representation of Providence Ventures in a $20 million investment in TailorMed Medical, a leading financial navigation software platform. Providence Ventures led the financing round and was joined by new investors UnityPoint Health Ventures, Almeda Ventures, Bridges Israel and Discount Capital with participation from existing investors Accelmed, Sanara Ventures and Triventures.
Representation of TripleTree, LLC who acted as financial advisor to Icario in its recapitalization by CVC Capital Partners, a leading private equity and investment advisory firm.