<p>Mr. Hurd focuses his practice on representing health care systems, hospitals, long-term care facilities, physicians, home health entities, durable medical equipment suppliers, and other health care allied professional practices in corporate, regulatory, transactional, and compliance matters. His representative matters include the representation of medical professionals before state licensing boards; responding to OIG, CMS, and other agency investigative matters; counseling on fraud and abuse issues; corporate compliance, including patient transfer and EMTALA matters; tax-exempt issues; and Medicare and Medicaid billing and reimbursement issues; preparing contracts for medical services; creating joint ventures, partnerships, and other arrangements among healthcare providers. 
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Mr. Hurd also assists life sciences companies in opening markets for drugs and other pharmaceuticals, medical devices, foods, cosmetics, biotechnology products, nanotechnology products, genomics and combination products. His representation of these companies also includes matters before the FDA, EPA, OSHA, CPSC, and international regulatory bodies.