For more than 40 years, Tom Dutton has helped hospitals, health systems, insurance companies, and large physician groups design and successfully implement cutting-edge integration and delivery strategies. He has led deal teams in innovative service line revenue mergers; dozens of hospital, HMO (health maintenance organization), insurance company, and clinical laboratory mergers, acquisitions, and joint operating agreements; hospital closures; statewide/multistate health system collaboratives; and distressed company transactions. Tom has handled dozens of specialty/primary care physician practice acquisitions, including physician private equity transactions, and developed regulatory-compliant physician employment compensation models, created dozens of provider-based clinics and co-management arrangements, developed/advised ACOs (accountable care organizations) regarding the use of ACO waivers, and implemented every type of physician-hospital joint venture.
Representative matters include: advising Ascension Health with respect to Labcorp's acquisition of Ascension's outreach laboratories and ongoing management of Ascension's hospital-based laboratories; representing Vanderbilt University Medical Center with respect to its acquisition of three hospitals from Community Health Systems (CHS) and partnership with CHS of another hospital; representing Atlantic Health System regarding its acquisition of a majority interest in CentraState Health; representing UPMC's cancer program regarding its employed physician relationships, provider-based clinics, and service line joint ventures with community hospitals; advising The Christ Hospital regarding its establishment of musculoskeletal gainsharing and co-management arrangements; developing numerous cardiovascular, orthopedic, oncology, and other service line co-management arrangements for UnityPoint Health; and representing McLaren Health Care in the closure and sale of St. Luke's Hospital in Maumee, Ohio.
Tom is a frequent lecturer at national conferences on the latest models for physician-hospital integration.
Experiência
- October 18, 2011
Physician Employment, Professional Services Arrangements, and Provider-Based Services: Ensuring a Successful and Compliant Relationship, Jones Day / Navigant 15th Annual Health Care Compliance Forum - October 20, 2010
Accountable Care Organizations - Hospital-Physician Integration, Jones Day / Navigant 14th Annual Health Care Compliance Forum - June 18, 2009
Employing Physicians and the Compliance Problems They Present, HCCA Web Conference - March 5, 2009
Best Practices in Physician Contracting, Health Care Roundtable for Chief Financial Officers - Fall and Winter 2008
Physician-Hospital Affiliation Models Post-Stark and Reimbursement Changes, Numerous Hospital Board Retreats - October 2008
Provider-Based Clinics and Other Physician-Hospital Affiliation Models Post-Stark and Medicare Reimbursement Changes, Health Care Roundtable for Chief Executive Officers - September 3, 2008
Physician-Hospital Affiliation Models Post-Stark MPFS/IPPS Changes, Form 990 Update, Health Care Roundtable for Chief Financial Officers - June 2008
Do's and Don'ts in Physician Relationships, Sentara Health Senior Administrative Team - March 25, 2008
Enhancing Financial Performance of Employed Physician Groups Under Provider-Based Clinic Arrangements, 2008 ECG Trends Webinar Series - March 2008
Physician Engagement Models: The Impact of Stark Phase III and Other Regulatory Changes, Hospital & Physician Relations, An Executive Summit - February 2008
Hospital-Physician Relationships, Connecticut Healthcare Financial Management Association - November 2007
Legal and Compliance Issues: Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures Post-Stark Law Changes, Southwind Health Partners Conference - October 2007
Cutting Edge Physician/Hospital Relationship Models – An Examination of the Critical Legal and Business Issues, Hospital & Physician Relations, An Executive Summit - February 2007
Cutting Edge Physician/Hospital Relationship Models, Physician Strategies Summit - October 2006
Hot Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures, Health Care Roundtable for Chief Executive Officers - July 2006
Hospital-Joint Ventures, Massachusetts Council of Community Hospitals - April 2006
Joint Ventures & the Impact on Managed Care contracting, Including Antitrust Issues, Health Care Roundtable for Managed Care & Revenue Officers - March 2005
Relationships With Oncologists, Health Care Roundtable for Chief Executive Officers - April 2004
Joint Ventures to Address Physician Competition & Collaboration, Health Care Roundtable for Strategic Planning & Marketing Executives - April 2004
Economic Credentialing, Health Care Roundtable for Strategic Planning & Marketing Executives - March 04, 2004
Physician Recruitment: Legal Considerations Update, Healthcare Roundtable for Chief Executive Officers - September 16, 2003
State of the States' Physician Joint Ventures, Healthcare Roundtable for Corporate Counsel - May 09, 2003
Antitrust Investigations as They Relate to Physician/Hospital Integration, Voluntary Hospitals of America Payment & Market Strategy Executive Affinity Group - October 1, 2002
Bad Things Happen to Bad People and Sometimes to Good People, Too: AHERF and Allina, on Enron-type issues, 6th Annual Health Care Compliance Forum - October 2002
Sharing of Hospital Cost Savings With Physicians, Voluntary Hospitals of America Senior Operating Officer Affinity Group Meeting - September 2002
Physician and Hospital Partnerships: New Models, New Approaches, American Hospital Association Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development - September 2002
New Medicine & New Technology & New Legal Theories – Legal Consequences, Health Care Roundtable for Corporate Counsel - September 2001
Business Relationships Between Hospitals and Physicians, Voluntary Hospitals of America Mountain States Leadership Forum - July 2001
Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures, Voluntary Hospitals of America, CFO Affinity Group - October 1999
Healthcare Insolvencies and Workouts Conference, chair, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, The Hunter Group and Jones Day - November 1998
Your Tax Dollars at Work: The Stark II Regulations, Rev. Rul. 98-15, PSO Regulations & More, American Academy of Medical Administrators - October 1996
Responding to the Siren Song of the For-Profits, Catholic Health Association, In-House Counsel Committee Meeting - March 1996
Legal and Regulatory Issues in Forming Provider-Sponsored Organizations, American Hospital Association and McManis Associates - February 1996
Collaborative Ventures Between Payors and Providers: What Works and What Does Not, Center for Health Services Management Research - June 1995
How to Build and Manage an Integrated Health Care Network: Legal and Business Strategies, cochair, Aspen Law & Business - March 1995
Understanding Integrated Delivery System Models, Global Business Research - March 1995
Successful Managed Care Initiatives, Healthcare Financial Management Educational Foundation Capital Conference - September 1994
Mergers & Acquisitions in the Health Care Industry – Major Issues Affecting the Structure of the Deal, Prentice Hall Law & Business - June 1994
What Physicians Need to Know About Managed Care Contracts, Physician Strategies 2000 - May 1994
Toledo, Ohio: Buffeted by the Vanguard of Emerging Integration Strategies As Blue Cross Blue Shield of Ohio Acquires Riverside Hospital, Integrated Healthcare Symposium - March 1994
Combinations and Alliances in the Health Care Industry, cochair, Prentice Hall Law & Business
- Northwestern University (J.D. cum laude 1983); Washington and Lee University (B.A. in Politics magna cum laude 1980; Phi Beta Kappa)
- Ohio
First named to Best Lawyers in America — health care in 1995 at age 36 and named in every subsequent edition
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the field of health care (2012-2023)
BTI Client Service All-Star (2018)
Twice selected for Nightingale's Healthcare News List of Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers