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Sharlene A. Hunt
Shareholder
Ms. Hunt devotes her practice primarily to Health Care Law, counseling individuals and both profit and non-profit entities. She advises clients with regard to pertinent legal developments facing health care providers in the modern health care environment.
Ms. Hunt represents health care providers and individual practitioners in the preparation and negotiation of contracts including partnership, shareholder and operating agreements, employment agreements, managed care agreements, clinical trial agreements, leases, and all types of contracts for services, supplies, etc. She advises clients on a broad array of regulatory compliance issues including licensure, confidentiality of patient information, fraud and abuse, self-referral laws, issues involved in clinical studies, and issues affecting the everyday operations of health care providers.
Ms. Hunt counsels clients regarding business structures including group practices, merger and consolidation of health care providers, establishment of joint ventures, reorganization of health care providers, and formation of new providers. Ms. Hunt advises clients in the purchase and sale of provider practices/businesses, including the preparation and negotiation of purchase agreements, loan documents, and supporting documentation. She advises nonprofit clients regarding proper formation, obtaining and maintaining tax exempt status, and compliance with regulatory restrictions on tax exempt entities including the intermediate sanctions provisions.
Firm clients include hospitals, physicians and physician groups, other licensed professionals, nursing homes, ambulatory care facilities, hospice providers and home health agencies, ambulance and invalid carriers, and industry-wide associations.
Articles/Publications
"Post-Employment Physician Restrictive Covenants Upheld" Garden State Focus
"Your Provider Number = Your Responsibility" Garden State Focus
Professional Activities
Member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, past Chair, Health and Hospital Law Section
Member of the American Health Lawyers Association
Member of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging
Honors/Awards
AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Seminars/Presentations
"Arts Plan New Jersey-Exploring Funding Partnerships," sponsored by the Monmouth County Arts Council, October 1, 1998
Other Professional and Personal Information
Ms. Hunt has appeared before numerous groups in the health care community on a variety of health care legal matters and served for many years on the Board of Education in Roosevelt, New Jersey, three of them as President.
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