R. Gregory Cochran

Gregory Cochran is a physician/healthcare attorney with broad experience in hospital and medical staff matters. Mr. Cochran's clients include medical staffs, medical groups, individual physicians, hospitals and health systems. His work is informed by more than a decade of experience as an emergency medicine physician.

Representative Work

Structured and negotiated healthcare transactions, including hospital-physician contracts, financing transactions, and joint ventures on behalf of hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare providers.

Advised clients on all aspects of hospital-physician relationships, including the federal anti-kickback statute, the Stark and Speier laws, tax-exemption laws, and the corporate practice of medicine doctrine.

Advised healthcare providers on regulatory and compliance matters, including those pertaining to practitioner credentialing, disciplinary hearings, state licensing, Medicare certification, health facility accreditation, medical staff and governing body bylaws, EMTALA, bioethics, medical records, consent, confidentiality, HIPAA, and California privacy and security laws.