Stephen T. Moore

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"I provide timely service and clear communication to help clients achieve their business goals, while ensuring compliance with complex laws and regulations."

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Stephen T. Moore

Partner

He/Him

"I provide timely service and clear communication to help clients achieve their business goals, while ensuring compliance with complex laws and regulations."

815-490-4903

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About Steve

With more than 30 years of experience, Steve represents hospitals, hospital systems, physician groups, surgery centers, and other health care providers, with a focus on regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions and other forms of transactions.

Steve counsels clients on joint ventures, corporate organization and governance, tax exemption, Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute compliance, physician compensation, physician integration strategies, and tax-exempt and taxable financing transactions.

Steve assisted a large health care system reorganize to assure continued sponsorship by the Roman Catholic Church in light of the dwindling number of Sisters in the sponsoring Order of Nuns. His services helped achieve the client's goal to assure continued provision of Catholic health care services to the large geographic area served by the client.

Areas of Focus

Industries:

Services:

- Corporate & Transactions;
- Mergers & Acquisitions

Experience

Represented a publicly traded company in the acquisition of multiple physician practices in multiple states.
Represented a Catholic-sponsored health care system in the acquisition of a majority interest in a long term acute care hospital (LTACH) from a national for profit corporation.
Represented a large regional hospital system in the syndication of de novo ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, and sleep centers.
Represented a Catholic religious order in the sale of a large assisted living facility to a not for profit provider.

Represented a Catholic-sponsored health care system in the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of two separately licensed Catholic-sponsored acute care hospitals and a licensed home health agency.
Represented a Catholic-sponsored health care system in acquiring from another Catholic-sponsored health care system substantially all of the assets of a number of ambulatory free standing clinics, an urgent care center, and a licensed acute care hospital which ceased operations concurrently upon closing the transaction, followed by opening of a free standing emergency room located in the former hospital.
Represented a hospital system in the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of a critical access hospital.
Represented a behavioral health service provider in the acquisition of an outpatient counseling clinic.
Represented a home health agency in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a for profit company.
Represented a large regional foundation in a change of control transaction, preserving board independence with limited reserve powers.
In two separate, unrelated transactions, represented not for profit hospital systems in joint ventures with a for profit owner and operator of urgent care centers. To assure continued access to care and to improve operating efficiencies, the parties organized a jointly owned entity that managed urgent care centers and contributed to the joint venture between the parties in each transaction.
Represented a financially distressed critical access hospital in exploration of potential affiliation options and its ongoing negotiations with bondholders and in support of its successful efforts to achieve financial stability through refinancing its bonded debt.
Represented a hospital district in its conversion to a tax-exempt not for profit corporation, and in the financing and construction of a replacement critical access hospital.
Represented a multi-specialty physician group practice in an equity sale of all stock to a community hospital.
Represented large regional hospital systems and community hospitals as borrower’s counsel in multiple tax-exempt and taxable financing transactions.

Recognition

Martindale-Hubbell, AV® Peer Review Rating
The Best Lawyers in America®, Health Care Law, 2017 – 2026
American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell, Top Rated Lawyer, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2013

Credentials

Education

Drake University Law School, JD, with honors
Western Illinois University, BS

Bar Admissions

Illinois

Thought Leadership

Presentations

Steve has spoken at the annual meetings of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Annual Health Law Symposium of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys, the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Association, and the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.

He has also presented at conferences sponsored by the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and at seminars attended by hospital governing boards, medical staffs, nursing staff, and administrators. Other presentations include:

"Conflicts of Interest," Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) Institute Hospital Board Education, Video Series, May 13, 2021
"Good Governance," ICAHN Rural Health Fellowship 2021, Virtual Event, March 24, 2021

Events

Healthcare Alerts

Hinshaw Alert

Illinois Supreme Court Declares Statutory Limits on the Recovery of Non-Economic Damages Unconstitutional, Feb 4, 2010

Hinshaw Newsletters

Health Care Newsletter - Third Quarter, 2018 Edition, Sep 18, 2018
OIG Report Indicates CMS Paid Practitioners for Telehealth Services that did not meet Medicare Requirements, May 7, 2018
Medical Litigation Newsletter - December 2016 Edition, Dec 21, 2016

In The News

Press Releases

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Interests

Did you know...
A seasoned world traveler, African destinations hold the top spots for Steve. On the local scene, he enjoys spending time with family and friends, and outdoors activities such as golf, hiking, biking, and fly fishing.

Community/Civic Activities

OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center, Ethics Committee Member; Advisory Board, Honorary Member, Former President; Internal Review Board, Former Member
Northern Illinois Hospice Association, Former Board Member
Crusaders Community Health Foundation, Former President
Rock River Valley Blood Center, Former Board Member
Jeremiah Development, NFP, Founding Director; Former President
River District Association, Former Director, Former President

Thought Leadership

Presentations

"Conflicts of Interest," Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network (ICAHN) Institute Hospital Board Education, Video Series, May 13, 2021
"Good Governance," ICAHN Rural Health Fellowship 2021, Virtual Event, March 24, 2021