Angela Rust is a Shareholder in the Health Law Section. She focuses her practice on representing independent providers, such as physician clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, and provider-owned networks. Angela has extensive experience structuring and implementing innovative health care delivery models such as bundled payment programs, on-site/near-site clinics, and centers of excellence agreements in multiple states.

She assists clients with topics such as:

• ACO, PHO, IPA and other provider network arrangements 

• Value-based provider/payer contracting

• Provider employment and shareholder agreements

• Hospital/physician alignment agreements

• Privacy and security laws, such as HIPAA

• State level health laws (including corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting issues)

• Contracts among provider-owned companies for real estate leases, clinic timeshares, purchase and rental of clinical equipment, professional services, and other arrangements

• Stark and Anti-kickback compliance

Angela routinely manages the legal needs of health providers on an in-house basis. Working inside clinics and surgery centers as part of a multi-disciplinary team has given Angela a first-hand perspective of the fast-paced environment in which her clients must react to legal questions and concerns. Angela prides herself on providing efficient, practical advice that is also good for business.