About Ronak
Ronak Chokhani is a health care transactional and regulatory attorney, whose clients consider him to be a strategic legal, business, and operational advisor. Ronak’s clients particularly appreciate his unparalleled responsiveness, thoroughness and attention to detail, and eagerness to understand their business as well as they do.
Ronak advises providers, payors, and other health care organizations on a variety of complex matters, including affiliations and joint ventures, M&A and financing, provider contracting, fraud and abuse, private and government reimbursement and audit, privacy and security, licensing and scope of practice, medical staff and credentialing, peer review, corporate practice of medicine, etc.
In addition to serving his clients, Ronak also serves as the Chair of the Stoel Rives Associates of Color affinity group and First Vice-Chair of the Washington State Bar Association, Health Law Section’s Executive Committee (term: 2022–23; previously served as Member at Large, 2021–22).
Type of Work Ronak Does
Ronak advises clients on a wide range of complex health care matters, including affiliations amongst provider and payor organizations and provider contracting (including preparing professional service agreements, medical director agreements, payor contracts, managed care payment arrangements, employment agreement for physicians and other licensees); M&A and financings (e.g., purchase/sale of provider groups/clinics/facilities, investments in health technology and life science entities); corporate governance and entity formation; corporate practice of medicine compliance including structuring management service/dental service organizations); Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement matters including enrollment, overpayment audits and self-disclosures; fraud and abuse compliance (Stark Law/Physician Self-Referral Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Anti-Rebate Law, False Claims Act); privacy and security matters (HIPAA Part 2, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Attorney General investigations and data breach response including ransomware attacks, information blocking compliance, FERPA, state privacy laws); complaints against providers and investigations by licensing boards; medical staffing; peer review; licensing and credentialing; scope of practice; and care delivery issues.
Types of Clients Ronak Represents
Ronak advises providers, payors, and health care organizations (and firms who invest in such organizations), such as physician and other provider groups, hospital systems, health plans and insurers, managed care entities, health technology and biomedical/life science companies, clinics and facilities (hospitals, urban Indian organizations, federally qualified health centers, ambulatory surgical centers, skilled nursing facilities, clinical labs, rural health clinics, assisted living and intermediate care facilities, behavioral health clinics, SUD treatment clinics, imaging centers, etc.), and individual licensees (physicians, physician assistants, nurses and nurse practitioners, psychologists, counselors, therapists, social workers, behavioral analysts, and other allied health professionals).
Commitment to the Community and the Firm
In addition to practicing law, Ronak supports organizations such as Project Access Northwest, Legal Voice, Choose 180, and SOUND health.
He serves as a board member of Project Access Northwest, a member of Washington Medical Legal Partnership’s Lawyer Referral Committee and Stoel Rives Coaching and Mentoring Committee, and as the Chair of the Stoel Rives Associates of Color affinity group and the Young Lawyer Subcommittee of the Washington State Bar Association, Business Law Section’s Executive Committee.
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