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Steven A. Eisenberg

Steven A. Eisenberg maintains an active healthcare and business practice with an emphasis on counseling clients in the healthcare industry. These clients include hospitals, physicians, joint ventures, ancillary providers, pharmaceutical and information technology companies, medical device manufacturers and researchers.

Mr. Eisenberg has advised clients regarding a variety of business and regulatory issues, ranging from corporate structuring to compliance with the complex regulatory scheme facing clients in the healthcare industry. Representative engagements include one of the largest physician practice purchases ever by a health system, the purchase of a physician management company, numerous physician-hospital arrangements, including whole hospital joint ventures, co-management agreements and other arrangements; the sale of a reference laboratory business by a health system, multiple hospital acquisitions, outsourcing of a health system's supply chain functions, acquisition of a medical device distributor, outsourcing of information technology systems by a health system and technology licensing in the healthcare field. Mr. Eisenberg also assisted in the development of several accountable care structures.

Mr. Eisenberg has also advised clients regarding the organization and structure of healthcare entities and joint ventures, including surgery centers, imaging centers, cardiac catheterization centers and renal dialysis facilities. He is often involved in hospital-physician relationships such as joint ventures, physician recruitment, practice acquisitions and others. In addition, he has assisted clients in a variety of corporate planning alternatives in the healthcare field and has represented healthcare facilities in the outsourcing of services.

Mr. Eisenberg has been named an “Ohio Super Lawyer” in the field of Healthcare Law in a special issue of Law and Politics magazine for many years and he has been named in Best Lawyers in America each year since 2008. Mr. Eisenberg has written and spoken extensively on issues affecting clients in the healthcare industry. He is a member of the Ohio and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations.

Mr. Eisenberg is also active in the community. He is a past president of the Jewish Big Brothers/Big Sisters Association, a member of the Board of Trustees of Bellefaire JCB and Hattie Larlham. He is also a member of the Class of 2001 of Cleveland BridgeBuilders.

Mr. Eisenberg’s recent speaking engagements include:

• Community Hospital 100. October, 2010. Physician Alignment: Building a Delivery System That Provides Flexibility to Respond.
• Ohio Hospital Association Annual Meeting. June, 2010. Accountable Care: What Your Health System May Look Like in 2012.
• Baker Hostetler/Chartis Group. May, 2010. Something Old to Something New: ACO’s, Clinical Integration, Medical Homes and Other Emerging Models.
• Ohio Hospital Association Annual Meeting. June, 2008. Anatomy of a Hospital Affiliation.
• Medical Office Buildings & Healthcare Facility Projects. October 18-19, 2007, Dallas, Texas. Minimizing Operating Risks: Key Steps for Developers, Healthcare REITs and Investors.
• Physician Agreements and Ventures: Successful Strategies for Negotiating Medical Transactions and Investments, November 2 & 3, 2006, Chicago, IL. Joint Venture Possibilities in an Ambulatory Center.
• Ohio Society of CPAs Annual Health Care Conference. November 14, 2006, Columbus, Ohio. Physician-Hospital alignment strategies-equity and non-equity models.
• Physician Agreements and Ventures: Successful Strategies for Negotiating Medical Transactions and Investments, November 2 & 3, 2006, Chicago, IL. Specialty and Physician Joint Venture Hospitals.
• Hospital and Physician Relations: An Executive Summit. October 22-24, 2006, Scottsdale, Arizona. Pre-Summit Strategy Session: Proactive Physician Alignment and Employment Models.
• Physician Strategies Summit, February 7, 2006, San Diego, California. Physician Recruitment Readiness.
• OHA/SOHA Conference, September 23, 2005. Physician-Hospital Joint Venture Strategies.
• OHA Compliance Briefing Seminar. May 10, 2005. Revisions to the OIG Model Compliance Guidance for Hospitals.
• Baldwin-Wallace Health Care MBA Speaker Series. May 7, 2005. The Nuts and Bolts of Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures.
• Cleveland Bar Association Annual Health Law Institute. April 29, 2005. Session Chair.
• Cleveland Bar Association Speaker Series. January 19, 2005. Physician-Hospital Alignment Strategies.
• Ohio Hospital Association Annual Meeting. June 14, 2004. Physician-Hospital Joint Ventures.
• Ohio Hospital Association Annual Meeting. June 13, 2004. Emerging Issues for Tax-Exempt Hospitals.