Thomas R. Neal

Tom Neal is the Chair of the firm's Health Care Practice Group.  Mr. Neal's practice concentrates on strategic, corporate, organizational and management matters for physician practices, hospitals and various forms of health care provider organizations. He is a former Deputy Corporation Counsel for the City of Indianapolis and Deputy Attorney General for the State of Indiana.  Mr. Neal also served as general counsel for The Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County. He serves as counsel for hospitals, organized hospital medical staffs and a variety of physician practices, networks and physician-hospital organizations.  Mr. Neal is a past Chairman of the Health Care and Medicine Section of the Indiana State Bar Association and is a frequent speaker on physician practices and managed care issues for the Indiana State Medical Association. He is the author of numerous articles on law and medicine.

Representative Experience

• Represented hospital in acquisition of large multi-specialty physician group with many ancillary businesses
• Represented large physician group in sale of assets to hospital and subsequent employment of physicians within health system
• Organized and represented several ambulatory surgery centers, multi-specialty and single-specialty, joint ventured with hospitals and free-standing physician companies, organized as under arrangements, provider-based and free-standing facilities  
• Organized  and represented a variety of managed care contracting organizations, PHOs, IPAs and MSOs, represented PHOs and physician organizations in managed care contracting involving financially integrated and clinically integrated  systems
• Represented physician group of significant size in merger with another medical group
• Represented both hospitals and medical groups in joint ventured ancillary businesses
• Represented academic professionals in creating faculty practice plan
• General representation of municipal hospital system and community mental health center

Education

• Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis, Indiana (J.D., 1972)
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (A.B., 1967)

Bar Admissions

• Indiana, 1972
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, 1972
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1973

Professional Associations

• American Health Lawyers Association (Member)
• Indianapolis Bar Association - Health Care Section (Member)
• Indiana State Bar Association - Healthcare & Medicine Section (Past Chair)
• American Bar Association - Health Care and Antitrust Sections (Member)

Awards and Recognitions

• Outstanding Physician Practice Lawyer, 2008 – Nightingale’s Healthcare News
• Indiana Super Lawyers, 2004 - 2012
• Best Lawyers In America®,  Health Care Law, 1993-2012
• Outstanding Health Care Attorney, Indiana Business Magazine, 2006

Seminars and Presentations

• Guest Lecturer, Health Policy, I.U. School of Public & Environmental Affairs, 1985 - 1990
• Numerous presentations for the Indiana State Medical Association and Indiana University School of Medicine as well as various trade and professional associations

Publications

• "Legal Issues in Managed Care Contracts" (edited by Steven F. Isenberg, M.D.), Managed Care, Capitation & Outcomes in Otolaryngology, Thieme Publications, 1997
• "Provider Sponsored Networks: Real Change in the Health Care Market", Indianapolis CEO, 1996
• "Managed Care Slowly Makes Inroads in Indiana", Indiana Medicine, Indiana State Medical Association, Vol. 88, No. 5, September-October 1995
• "It's Here, Now What? An Assessment of the Impact of AIDS in the Law in Indiana", Res Gestae, Indiana State Bar Association, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1989
• "Informed Consent: Developments in Indiana", The Marion County Medical Society Bulletin, 1988
• "A Duty to Warn", The Marion County Medical Society Bulletin, 1987
• "Medicare Fraud & Abuse", Topics in Healthcare Financing, 1986