Becca Waltuch
Partner
Overview
Rebecca "Becca" Waltuch is a healthcare transactions attorney in Holland & Knight's Boston office. Ms. Waltuch advises nonprofit and for-profit healthcare clients on a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters.
Ms. Waltuch counsels hospitals, health systems, healthcare investors and other health industry practitioners on complex operational and contracting matters, including multistate physician practice acquisitions, joint ventures, mergers and affiliations. Ms. Waltuch assists clients with structuring transactions and navigating health regulatory issues.
Ms. Waltuch draws on her previous role as in-house counsel for a large clinically integrated physician network and community hospital system to provide her clients with insights that address business needs while avoiding regulatory pitfalls. Ms. Waltuch is particularly skilled in handling the challenges that can arise in the context of provider contracting with large managed care organizations (MCOs) and the operational issues that can occur during physician practice acquisitions.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Waltuch was a partner at a global law firm in its Boston office.
Representative Experience
- Served as the lead counsel for a large hospital system in the sale and acquisition of physician practices
- Counseled on all regulatory and transactional aspects of multiple community hospital acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic affiliation deals in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors
- Managed numerous healthcare transactions, coordinating teams of subject-matter specialists for in-depth review of due diligence matters
- Advised nonprofit and for-profit health systems with the review of key payer agreements and template participation agreements
- Advised a large health system on the formation and operation of a Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) Model, Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) ACO Model and Medicaid ACO Model, including the preparation of certain fraud and abuse waivers
- Guided clients with voluntary self-disclosures, including submissions under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP)
- Drafted template provider agreements for a multistate physician network, national health system and academic medical center, including participation agreements, employment agreements and professional services agreements; used by the client during expansion of its business operations to streamline operations and mitigate compliance risks
- Counseled clients in responding to government investigations and conducting internal investigations into regulatory compliance matters identified during due diligence or internal audits
Credentials
- Northeastern University School of Law, J.D.
- Tufts University School of Medicine, M.P.H.
- Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A.
- Massachusetts
- New Jersey
- New York
- American Health Lawyers Association
- The Best Lawyers in America guide, Healthcare Law, 2023-2026