Dutton, Thomas E.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

For more than 25 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 handled every type of physician-hospital joint venture (including ASC, diagnostic imaging, cancer center, and specialty/whole hospital syndications), co-management and gainsharing arrangements, physician practice acquisitions, and the development of provider-based clinics and regulatory-compliant physician employment compensation models. Tom has led deal teams in dozens of hospital, HMO, and insurance company mergers and acquisitions, including innovative whole hospital and service line revenue mergers and those involving distressed companies. Tom has substantial experience advising companies on Stark Law matters. He is co-chair of the Firm's Health Care Practice.

Representative matters include: counseling ProMedica Health System regarding its acquisition and employment of the leading cardiology practice in Northwest Ohio, representing Catholic Health Initiatives in developing the Louisville joint venture of its Caritas Health operations and those of Jewish Hospital Healthcare System, developing cardiovascular and orthopedic service line co-management arrangements for Tucson Medical Center, helping City of Hope National Medical Center navigate its way through the complex Stark Law considerations governing its arrangements with its exclusive medical group, and representing the Creditors Committee of the Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation in the sale through bankruptcy of its hospital operations in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Tom is a frequent lecturer at national conferences on the latest models for physician-hospital integration, Stark Law compliance, and other health law issues and has authored numerous articles on health law-related topics.

Areas of Practice

• Health Care
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Business Transactions/Health Care
• M&A
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances

Representative Cases

• AHERF creditors' committee pursues claims against certain officers and trustees of health care system
• AHERF creditors' committee sells Philadelphia and Pittsburgh hospitals
• Catholic Health Initiatives merges subsidiary with Jewish Hospital HealthCare
• Catholic Health Initiatives puts compliance policies in place
• City of Hope National Medical Center enters into new professional services agreement with City of Hope Medical Group
• Far Hills ambulatory surgery center formed by joint venture between Miami Valley Hospital and interested surgeons
• Iowa Health System forms ambulatory surgery center joint ventures with interested surgeons
• Knox Community Hospital forms joint venture with physicians
• Kroger invests in The Little Clinics , (2009)
• Midwest health system forms Radiation Therapy joint venture with two group practices
• Northeast hospital acquires cardiologist practice , (2009)
• Premier Health Partners acquires Dayton Heart Hospital
• Premier Health Partners forms Radiation Therapy joint venture with Dayton physicians
• Premier Health Partners implements employment arrangements
• ProMedica acquires 22-cardiologist practice , (2009)
• ProMedica forms ambulatory surgery center joint ventures with interested surgeons , (2009)
• ProMedica forms co-management companies with physicians to co-manage its orthopedic and cardiovascular service lines
• ProMedica implements employment arrangements
• Sentara Health implements employment arrangements , (2009)
• SSM Health Care forms ambulatory surgery center joint ventures with interested surgeons
• St. Anthony Hospital forms co-management companies with physicians to co-manage its cardiovascular, orthopedic and gastroenterology service lines
• St. Luke's Hospital acquires cardiologist practice , (2009)
• TMC HealthCare forms co-management companies with physicians to co-manage its orthopedic and cardiovascular service lines
• University Hospitals Health System acquires joint venture interest of Columbia/HCA in its Northern Ohio partnership with the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine , (2009)
• West Suburban Hospital seeks licensure for nursing college
• Western hospital enters into a professional services agreement with multiple oncologists to serve its provider-based cancer center patients

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Disability, Dissolution, Elder Law, Food & Drug Administration, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Nursing Home, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Social Security -- Disability, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

• Northwestern University
• Washington and Lee University

Published Works

• Navigating the Stark Law's Changing Landscape: Implications for Transactions, Business Law & Governance, 2008
• Stark Phase III: Is The Third Time The Charm?, AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly, Vol. 5, Iss. 35, 2007
• Stark on the Fast Track: Separate Rulemaking Threatens Many Common Deals, 2007
• Back to Basics, Trustee Magazine, Vol. 59, No. 3, 2006
• Medicare HMOs Mirror Overall Enrollment Drop, Cited Expert/Detailed Comments, Managed Healthcare Executive, 2003
• New Partnerships in Cardiovascular Programs, Journal of Cardiovascular Management, 2003
• CMS Publishes Changes to Provider-Based Regulation, 2002
• Summary of Key Provisions of Stark II Final Regulations, 2001

Address

P.O. Box 165017
325 John H. McConnell Boulevard
Suite 600
Columbus, OH 43216-5017

Phones

1.614.281.3897 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.614.461.4198 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

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