Overview
Ralph is an experienced health care attorney and senior executive who has worked on integrated delivery systems and operations in both law firm and health care system settings. He advises health care clients on a broad range of regulatory and transactional matters.
His operational responsibilities have included executive oversight of risk management, physician clinics, cardiovascular services, plastic surgery services and a residency program. Ralph worked extensively on integration of individual physicians and physician practices into new healthcare delivery system settings.
Services
Experience
Ralph's areas of law practice include hospital and health law, particularly representation of systems, hospitals and other health care providers on a broad spectrum of legal issues including:
- Health care contracting
- Managed care contracting and related managed care advice
- Regulatory matters relating to insurers and HMOs
- Formation and ongoing operations of integrated delivery systems, including hospitals, HMOs and physician practices
- Acquisition of physician practices
- Extensive fraud and abuse analysis
- Medicare, Medicaid and other reimbursement matters
- Patient consent
- Health care decision making, bioethical and medical/legal ethics issues
- Medical review board issues
- General physician-institution matters
- Medical staff matters
- Employment related matters
- Health care related litigation
Credentials
Education
- University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A.
Admissions
- Wisconsin
Clerkships
- Law Clerk, Judge Barbara B. Crabb, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
Languages
- English
Recognition
- Phi Beta Kapa, Phi Kappa Phi
- Order of the Coif