Jonathan D. Fleece  |  Principal

Professional Activities:

• Jonathan serves as an advisor to the Sarasota, Manatee, and Hernando
  County Medical Societies.
• The Florida Bar Health Law Board Certification Committee.
• American Health Lawyers Association.

Cases and/or Experience:

• Forming entities and drafting and negotiating a variety of legal documents, including, partnership, shareholder and operating agreements, employment agreements and buy-sell agreements.
• Structuring and effectuating the sale and purchase of businesses, assets or divisions and joint ventures.
• Representing companies and individuals in debt and equity financing.
• Representing health care entities, including surgery centers, diagnostic facilities, oncology centers and catheterization laboratories.
• Auditing and analyzing arrangements to ensure that clients assume minimum risk under fraud and abuse, fee-splitting statutes, Stark II, related anti-referral laws and Medicare and Medicaid rules and regulations.
• Resolving various business disputes between partners and/or unrelated third parties.
• Frequently advises clients on licensure and disciplinary actions, professional liability/risk management issues, and medical records/patient confidentiality issues.
• Frequently provides advice regarding wealth preservation for high net worth individuals.
• Providing counsel to medical practices regarding compliant programs which increase profits and compensation.

Articles:

• What Makes A Physician Practice Successful?
• EXTRA EXTRA Read All About It!
  Exciting New Developments In Health Care Law
• More Confusion From The Florida
  Board Of Medicine
• 2007 Year in Review – For Physicians And Health Care Clients
• Health Care Law Review – It Never Ends – Stark II, Phase III And Sweeping New Diagnostic Testing Billing Rules
• The Arts, Culture and Us