Healthcare Commercial Litigation
Disputes between healthcare organizations can damage business relationships, disrupt operations, and lead to significant out of pocket costs. As independent experts, VMG Health can help organizations navigate an expeditious and cost-effective resolution to disputes with thorough and objective analysis, and fair and honest advice. And when compromise is not possible, these same qualities make the testimony of VMG Health experts highly compelling before a trier of fact, giving your organization a strong foundation for a successful outcome.
VMG Health experts have provided deposition and trial testimony before State and Federal courts, and in mediation and arbitration. Our experience includes actions involving:
- Business Interruption / Lost Profits
- Breach of Contract
- M&A disputes
- Intellectual property disputes
- Bankruptcy / Troubled and Distressed Businesses
- In addition to in an expert capacity, VMG Health also provides litigation support services including assistance with damages theory, financial due diligence and document review, market research, rebuttal analysis and deposition preparation for opposing experts, and settlement review and consultation
Representative Engagements
- Valuation of ambulatory surgery centers and the orthopedic practice involved in a qui tam matter; testified at deposition
- Valuation of a physician-owned surgical hospital involving a partner dispute; testified at deposition
- Valuation of various management services agreements involving diagnostic imaging centers and an ASC; testified at deposition and arbitration
- Valuation of a general acute hospital involved in a post-transaction dispute between the buyer and seller; testified at deposition and trial
- Valuation of the royalty rates for various orthopedic implant devices in a dispute between the physician-surgeons and the medical device company; testified at deposition
- Valuation of the underlying collateral for loans made to a physician-owned surgical hospital involved in a bankruptcy; testified at trial
- Valuation of a regional ambulance company involved in a bankruptcy
- Valuation of a free-standing emergency room clinic involved in a partner dispute; testified at deposition
- Valuation of a cardiology practice involved in a bankruptcy; testified at deposition
- Lost profits analysis related to a dispute involving a cardiology practice and a health system; testified at deposition
- Valuation of a first right of refusal involving a health system and a diagnostic imaging center; testified at trial
- Valuation and lost profits analysis involving a failed de novo ASC, physician investors, and a management company; testified at arbitration
- Valuation analysis related to the breach of fiduciary duties and breach of contract involving an early stage ASC; testified at trial
- Valuation analysis related to a physician’s purported loss of privileges; testified at deposition
- Lost profits analysis related to a theft of a member list and trade secrets of a health insurance plan; testified at deposition
