Integrating Care but Increasing Liability : Mitigating Risk in Non-Profit Health System Acquisitions of For-Profit Managed Services Organizations

Non-profit healthcare systems may seek to create an integrated care delivery system by acquiring other healthcare companies. Particular risks arise when nonprofit healthcare systems purchase for-profit management services organizations. In this Contribution, Victoria Hamscho, Daniel Weinstein, and Ryan Knox ('19) call attention to some significant risks non-profit healthcare systems face in acquiring for-profit managed services organizations (including fraud and abuse, corporate practice of medicine laws, antitrust violations, and tax violations) and suggest possible means of mitigating these risks