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Robert J. Baudino, Jr. Attorney at Law
Robert J. Baudino, Jr.Attorney at Law
515.282.1010
Practice Areas
- Antitrust
- Corporate Law
- Transactional Law
- Tax Law and Tax Exemption
- Medicare and Medicaid
Bar & Court Admissions
- Iowa
Education
- JD, 1978 Drake University, School of Law. Des Moines, Iowa
- BA, 1975 Shimer College, With Distinction, Mt. Carroll, Illinois
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Health Law Section
- Antitrust Law Section
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Committee on Antitrust
- Committee on Hospitals & Health Systems
- Committee on Tax and Finance
- Iowa Bar Association
- Committee on Health Law
- Committee on Trade Regulations
- Committee on Administrative Law
- Sarbanes-Oxley Task Force
- American Bar Association
- Antitrust Law Section
- Hospital Merger Task Force
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Past Chairman of the Antitrust Committee Agency Advice Task Force
- Iowa Governor's Task Force on Long Term Care, 1986
- Iowa Department of Public Health, 1988
- Committee on Certificate of Need Law Revision
Recent Speaking Engagements
- ABA Emerging Issues in Healthcare 2014
- Antitrust Developments Affecting Healthcare
With thirty-eight years of antitrust, corporate, transactional and non-profit taxation experience, Robert J. Baudino, Jr. serves as counsel to 19 non-profit hospital systems throughout the United States with over 60 hospitals. He provides legal advice to health systems, hospitals and physician groups for day-to-day operations and a variety of transactions, including, but not limited to acquisitions, divestitures, formation of clinically integrated networks, collaborations, ACOs, physician alignment, crisis management, Certificate of Need, Medicare reimbursement and compliance, group purchasing organizations, and managed care contracting.
Additionally, he provides representation for long-term care and assisted living providers, including the largest privately held long-term care and assisted living provider in the United States.
Bob’s health law work has resulted in a high degree of interaction and familiarity with chief executive officers, senior administrative staff members and the board of directors of all Baudino clients, as well as the CEOs of many investor-owned companies such as HCA, Tenet, and Ardent. Additionally, Bob has represented a number of religiously affiliated health systems, is well versed regarding Canon Law and has a thorough knowledge of the 4th Edition of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Services.
Bob fosters a highly collaborative environment and assigns qualified and experienced lawyers to all matters, ensuring that the right level of expertise is leveraged to best serve the clients and their organizations. He is directly engaged with every client and oversees all case and project work produced by the firm.
Antitrust and Transaction Counsel
- Created the second successfully clinically integrated network in the U.S. following MedSouth
- Represented Hospital Authority of Albany-Dougherty County and Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc. for the acquisition of Palmyra Medical Center and its successful defense of an FTC challenge
- Currently counseled two major healthcare alliances through clinical integration process for physicians and hospitals
- Formed three new physician hospital organizations for long-term clients
- Successfully defended Antitrust illegal tying case against a hospital client that was dismissed by the U.S. District Court
General Representative Matters
- Negotiated a long-term lease and new hospital construction agreement for a nonprofit health system client, leading all aspects of the transaction
- Directed litigation team that successfully defended Qui Tam case on behalf of a health system client in which the Office of Inspector General declined to intervene after a lengthy investigation and review of critical key evidence produced by the firm
- Negotiated and executed two acquisitions for the same nonprofit health system client within one calendar year, leading all aspects of the transactions
- Worked closely with a client to strategically re-structure its organization to ensure it was well positioned for long-term sustainability
- Successfully led client through financing transaction and bond issuance for two hospital acquisitions, totaling $152.4 million
Career Experience
- Negotiated and managed over fifty-two hospital acquisitions, mergers or affiliations in the US since 1982
- Formed two regional group purchasing organizations
- Formed eight physician-hospital organizations
- Formed three physician-owned hospitals
- Served on the litigation defense team defending nonprofit hospitals in the nationwide uninsured class action litigation.
- Served as special transaction counsel to an investor-owned hospital company
- Represented various ambulatory surgery centers, independent practice associations, and the nation’s largest privately held long-term care provider