PRACTICE

Home Health and Home Care

Overview

PierFerd’s Home Health and Home Care Team understands that home health and home care providers have unique legal needs and face unique legal challenges, especially as the industry becomes more regulated at the national and state levels. Moreover, as demand for home health and home care services continues to increase, the opportunities for investment in this industry by existing providers, entrepreneurs, hospital systems, and private equity firms continue to increase.

The PierFerd Home Health and Home Care Team is prepared to assist both providers and investors with the unique challenges and opportunities involved in the home health and home care industry.

  • Full Spectrum of Business Transactions

    Like traditional large law firms, we regularly assist clients in the full spectrum of business transactions and related company matters, a large portion of which involves mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and credit, employment, regulatory, corporate governance and board advisory, intellectual property, and financial restructuring and reorganization, among others.

  • Leveraging Technology

    Our Corporate team leverages cutting edge technology in all aspects of practice and our diverse all-partner teams focus on what matters most to our clients and stakeholders, delivering outcomes through shared values of strength, diversity, and collaboration.

  • Forging Close Partnerships

    We believe in forging close partnerships with our clients to better understand their business operations, enabling us to provide more effective counsel and to deliver exceptional value during pivotal moments that often shape profoundly the trajectory and success of our clients’ businesses.

  • Effective Low-Leverage Platform

    Our unique low-leverage platform is not only more cost-effective, it allows us to focus on fewer, targeted engagements than our peers at traditional, elite law firms. This model allows us to get closer to our clients and to know their businesses, preferences, and cadence, and to ultimately meet our clients where they are.

Capabilities

PierFerd’s clients include a wide variety of home health and home care providers, including Medicare-certified home health agencies, private duty nursing providers, and non-medical home care agencies (both franchised and independent).

Whether the matter involves a merger or acquisition, government investigation, employment dispute, or litigation, our Team has the industry knowledge and experience to jump in and provide strategic, practical advice. Matters handled by our Team include:

  • Corporate transactions, including the purchase and sale of home health and non-medical home care agencies

  • Federal and state regulatory compliance, including Medicare, HIPAA, Stark and Anti-kickback laws, state health department regulations, and state consumer protection regulations

  • Wage and hour issues including strategies for live-in caregiver compensation

  • Litigating and arbitrating disputes in court, before government/administrative agencies, and arbitration tribunals

  • Compliance with state domestic worker “bill of rights” laws

  • U.S. and state Department of Labor audits

  • Employee benefits plans

  • Responding to cybersecurity threats, including data breach notification

Members of the PierFerd Home Health and Home Care Team attend and present seminars at conferences hosted by national and local industry associations, including the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA).

For more information on how the PierFerd Home Health and Home Care Team can assist you, please contact a member of the team.

Our Team

Sami Asaad

Sami counsels home care agencies and provides innovative strategies on the unique issues agencies face, such as managing and compensating live-in aides. He has represented home care agencies in investigations by federal and state labor departments and has presented seminars and webinars to multiple home care franchise systems and industry groups, including the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA).

Radha Bachman

Radha represents (since at least 2010) several senior living affiliated home care agencies in day to day legal matters and purchase and sale transactions. This includes within Texas and Florida, specifically. Represented Companion and Homemaker licensees as well as staffing agencies in Florida. With respect to homecare clients, conducted full scale legal and compliance reviews, assisted with development of appropriate policies and procedures and guided clients through Federal investigations both with respect to fraud and abuse and HIPAA compliance.

Dan Messeloff

Dan represents home healthcare and home care clients, whether in litigation, advice on compliance with labor and employment issues, and generally assisting on the complex legal requirements that impact the home healthcare industry.

Alejandro Perez

Alejandro has represented home healthcare and home care clients with (a) employment-related issues (including drafting policies, training, advice and counsel, litigation); (b) labor issues; (c) investigations into wrongdoing/misconduct; and (d) drafting agreements for contractors.

Dean Wang

Dean has represented home health care clients on issues relating to State licensing, HIPAA compliance, and Fraud and Abuse. Dean also has experience with representing health care providers in M&A transactions and various corporate law matters.