Overview

Alberto M. Hernandez is a healthcare attorney in Holland & Knight’s Miami office. He has significant experience in the representation of publicly traded, privately held and not-for-profit healthcare entities. Mr. Hernandez focuses in healthcare transactional and regulatory matters and has represented numerous healthcare entities, including physician practice management companies, hospitals, health maintenance organizations and other managed care organizations, diagnostic centers and other healthcare providers and delivery systems. Previously, Mr. Hernandez served as former general counsel to a publicly traded physician practice management company.

Representative Healthcare Experience

  • Main general, regulatory and transactional counsel to various provider sponsored organizations, including involvement in all aspects of reimbursement and payment issues under the Medicare Advantage Program, as well as the review and negotiation of all provider and network agreements
  • Lead transactional and regulatory healthcare counsel in numerous mergers and acquisitions involving healthcare entities such as managed care organizations, hospital systems, medical practices, diagnostic centers and ambulatory surgical centers
  • Regulatory counsel to operator of emergency room management services
  • Representation of shareholders in sale of health maintenance organization
  • Representation of numerous not-for-profit entities, including integrated delivery health systems and long-term care facilities
  • Representation of publicly traded and privately held companies, serving as both transactional and regulatory counsel in a wide range of commercial matters
  • General representation of numerous healthcare entities, including physician practice management companies and health maintenance organizations, in transactional and regulatory matters
  • Representation of numerous investors in acquisitions and sales of health maintenance organizations

Credentials

Education
  • University of Miami, BBA
  • University of Miami School of Law, J.D.
  • Loyola University New Orleans, MBA, cum laude
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Florida
Memberships
  • Cuban-American Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Miami Dade County Bar Association
  • American Health Lawyers Association
Honors & Awards
  • The Legal 500 USA, Real Estate & Construction: Real Estate, 2014
  • The Legal 500 Latin America, Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions, 2012
  • Top Dealmaker of the Year - Distressed Real Estate, Daily Business Review, 2012
  • Florida Legal Elite, Florida Trend magazine, 2007, 2008
Spoken Languages
  • English
  • Spanish