Kinal Mahesh Patel advises health care, life sciences, and insurance companies on complex transactional, alternative payment model and risk contracting, and regulatory compliance matters. Combining both regulatory and transactional experiences, he delivers legal advice with practical solutions to support clients’ short and long-term goals as they navigate regulatory reforms and industry trends.

Transactional Counsel

Kinal delivers pragmatic deal advice and risk mitigation-oriented solutions to help guide health care providers, plans, and other companies through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. He has experience with hospital, provider, pharmacy, and health plan acquisitions. He also leads the implementation of partnerships among health care companies and physician and non-physician provider alignment strategies.

Alternative Payment Models and Risk Contracting

Kinal routinely advises clients on alternative payment models and shared-risk arrangements; and on provider network structures, like CINs, ACOs, IPAs, and PHOs, related to compliance with federal and state health care, insurance, and general business laws. He is a sharp negotiator counseling health care providers on managed care and other risk contracting; and provider networks on risk-bearing entity activities, participation agreement design, payor contracting structures, and provider relationship. He supports clients on a variety of payment and service delivery models from CMMI and CMS, including MSSP, BPCI-A, PCF, DCE, GPDC, GUIDE, and other non-governmental risk adjustment models.

Regulatory Compliance

Kinal provides regulatory compliance counsel on regulatory, compliance, licensing, and managed care arrangements. He helps clients navigate pending and suspected compliance issues and government enforcement actions, government payor program enrollment and participation requirements, and licensing and accrediting support. He also has experience handling Medicare and Medicaid billing and reimbursement issues for a variety of providers and suppliers.

Kinal is a member of the firm’s Health Care Practice Group; and co-chair of the Health Care & Life Sciences Sector’s Payor Provider Convergence Area of Focus.