Marci Rose Levine
Partner
Marci Levine is a partner with SNR Denton's Health and Life
Sciences sector team and is a practice leader for the health care
team. She has extensive corporate experience representing a broad
range of health care organizations, including hospitals and health
systems, physician practices, managed care organizations, group
purchasing organizations, trade associations, and pharmaceutical
and medical device manufacturers.
Marci provides counsel to private
equity firms, venture capitalists and other organizations in the
financial services sector that are investing in the health care
industry. On behalf of these organizations, Marci has structured,
negotiated and documented various corporate transactions, including
mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, debt financing
arrangements and health facilities development.
She also advises clients with respect
to a wide range of contracting practices, such as physician
recruitment and employment, medical directorships, managed care
contracting, and management services arrangements.
Representative Experience
- Participated in comprehensive due diligence review in
connection with a multibillion-dollar acquisition in the dialysis
products market.
- Conducted regulatory due diligence, negotiating key deal terms
and interfacing with federal and state regulators on behalf of a
private equity firm investing in a managed care organization.
- Participated in the development of a hospital/physician joint
venture heart hospital, including preparing the confidential
private placement memorandum for physician investors.
- Assisted a hospital in structuring affiliation with a large
multispecialty medical group (100 physicians), including the
extension of a subordinated loan facility to the medical group to
satisfy the solvency requirements of its provider-sponsored HMO and
the negotiation of equity participation by the hospital in the
medical group.
- Conducted extensive due diligence in connection with the
acquisition of an insolvent women's hospital by a regional health
system.
- Prepared comprehensive hospital contracting policies and
template contracts related to physician recruitment and relocation,
medical directorships, hospital/physician joint ventures and other
personal services arrangements.
- Structured buy-ins into and separations from physician practice
groups.
Honors and Awards
- Marci was recognized in 2007 by Nightingale's Healthcare News
as one of the nation's "Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers."
Organizations
- Vice President, Board of Directors, Wonders Child Care,
2011–2012
- Former Vice Chair, American Health Lawyers Association,
Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group
- District of Columbia Bar Association, Health Law Section
Publications
- Co-author, "The Stark Law: A User's Guide to Achieving
Compliance," 2nd Edition, HCPro, Inc., September 2009
- Editor, Hospitals and Health Systems Rx, American
Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), April 2009
- Co-author, Corporate Governance Implications of Nonprofit
Executive Compensation, First Edition, 2009
- Co-author, "CMS Implements Potentially 'Sweeping' Changes to
Stark Regulations," BNA Health Care Fraud Report, Vol. 12,
No. 19, September 24, 2008
- Co-author, The Medicare Improvements for Patients and
Providers Act Member Briefing, AHLA, August 22, 2008
- Editor, Hospitals and Health Systems Rx, AHLA, June
2008
- Co-author, "An Overview of CMS's Latest Proposed Changes to the
Stark Regulations," BNA Health Care Fraud Report, Vol. 12,
No. 10, May 7, 2008
- Co-author, "Phase III Regulations Result in Dramatic Changes to
Stark Law," BNA Health Law Reporter, Vol. 16, No. 40, Oct.
11, 2007
- Co-author, "Stark II Phase III Final Rule: No End in Sight,"
AHLA, Sept. 2007
- "CMS Proposes Significant Changes to Stark and Related
Regulations," BNA Health Care Fraud Report, Vol. 11, No.
16, Aug. 1, 2007
Presentations
- Co-presenter, "Stark Law Phase III Update: Analysis of Recent
Changes," audioconference sponsored by HCPro, December 11,
2008
- Co-presenter, "Stark Law Update: Physician Recruitment in the
Post-Stark II, Phase III World," audioconference sponsored by
HCPro, September 10, 2008
- Co-presenter, "Stark Law Update: Analysis of Phase III and
Strategies for Compliance," audioconference sponsored by HCPro,
December 6, 2007
- Co-presenter, "Compliance Tips for Pharmaceutical Manufacturer
Sales Activities," audioconference sponsored by the Centers for
Business Intelligence, Oct. 31, 2007
- "Medicare Advantage Contracting Strategies," audioconference
sponsored by the American Hospital Association, May 24 and 31,
2006
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