Elise LeGros

Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP

Elise LeGros

Healthcare

Life sciences and healthcare

Elise joined Norton Rose Fulbright in 2016. Elise's practice focuses on a broad range of healthcare regulatory and transactional matters. Elise has experience working on various types of transactions in the healthcare industry, including health system and hospital mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, and joint ventures. She also assists clients with drafting and negotiating physician-hospital agreements, including recruitment, employment, professional services, and co-management.

Elise advises clients on a broad range of healthcare regulatory matters, including compliance with the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Civil Monetary Penalties statute. She is regularly involved in the health regulatory compliance due diligence associated with transactions. She also has experience in addressing the regulatory implications of healthcare entity changes of ownership.

Additionally, Elise’s experience includes graduate medical education matters, including counseling sponsoring institutions and individual programs on compliance with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) institutional and common program requirements and responding to ACGME citations.

Representative clients include health systems, hospitals, and large physician groups.

Professional experience

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Education

JD, SMU Dedman School of Law, magna cum laude, 2016
BA, St. Edward's University, Global Studies, magna cum laude, 2010

While in law school, Elise was a member of the International Law Review Association.

Admissions

Texas State Bar

Representative experience

Represented major health systems in acquisitions of specialty and primary care physician practices.
Represented health systems in joint ventures involving urgent care and imaging centers.
Led regulatory due diligence in various provider acquisitions, including of hospital systems, ambulatory surgery centers, and urgent care centers.
Advised health systems in structuring arrangements to comply with the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, and in self-disclosures of Stark Law violations.
Represented a physician developer in structuring and forming an ambulatory surgery center joint venture.
Assisted multiple graduate medical education Sponsoring Institutions and individual programs in responding and resolving accrediting agency (ACGME) citations.
Advised academic medical centers and other sponsors of graduate medical education on GME organizational infrastructure and operations for compliance with accreditation requirements.

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