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Practice Areas

• Health Care
• Medical Fraud and Abuse

Practice Focus

• Health and Hospital Law
• Nonprofit Law

Education
Rutgers University School of Law - Camden
  J.D., 1983
  with honors
University of Kansas
  B.S., 1980

Bar Admission
New Jersey
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

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Sharlene A. Hunt
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Ms. Hunt devotes her practice primarily to Health Care Law. She counsels both individuals and entities, and advises clients with regard to pertinent legal developments facing health care providers in the modern health care environment. She also 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.

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, mergers and consolidations, establishment of joint ventures, and formation of new entities. 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.

Firm health care 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.

Ms. Hunt is the co-author of The New Jersey Healthcare Law Blog, a blog dedicated to providing Federal and State healthcare news, laws, regulations, and upcoming events pertaining to the healthcare field.

Articles/Publications

• "HIPAA Changes Bring New Challenges," TechLifeSciNews, March 2013
• “Before The OIG Comes Knocking,” Physician Advocate
• "Legal Q&A," TechNews, December-January 2009
• "Post-Employment Physician Restrictive Covenants Upheld" Garden State Focus
• "Your Provider Number = Your Responsibility" Garden State Focus-June 2001

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 LeadingAge, formerly the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging

Honors/Awards Seminars/Presentations

• “New Jersey Senior Executive Educational Program”, St. Luke’s Warren Hospital, March 19, 2012
• "Interpreting the Language in Your Payor Contracts," Medical Society of New Jersey, May 13, 2011
• "Legal Issues for Practitioners in Private Practice," New Jersey Counseling Association Annual Conference, April 28, 2008
• "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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