Mr. Murphy provides comprehensive legal counsel to a diverse range of clients in the health care sector, including hospital and health systems, physician groups, ambulatory surgical centers, private investors, management service organizations, diagnostic imaging centers, home care agencies, and health care entrepreneurs. He assists his clients with a wide variety of strategic, operational, and regulatory matters.
Mr. Murphy's extensive experience spans advising clients on business strategy and development, early round financing, corporate compliance, licensure, and ownership syndication. He also offers guidance on navigating managed care and government payor program issues. His practice includes representing clients in complex transactions, including asset and stock sales, mergers, consolidations, joint ventures, and alignment transactions, as well as in divestitures, partner disputes, liquidations, and dissolutions.
He is highly skilled in counseling clients on regulatory matters, including structuring business ventures in compliance with health care fraud and abuse laws (including federal and state anti-kickback rules and self-referral prohibitions), corporate practice of medicine restrictions, and licensure and certification requirements. Mr. Murphy also drafts and negotiates a wide range of agreements, including business combinations, shareholder agreements, operating and partnership agreements, debt instruments, professional service contracts, employment agreements, management agreements, equipment purchase and leasing agreements, and more.