Bio

For 38 years, Thomas Dutton has helped hospitals, health systems, insurance companies, and large physician groups design and successfully implement cutting-edge integration and delivery strategies. He has led deal teams in innovative service line revenue mergers; dozens of hospital, health maintenance organization, insurance company, and clinical laboratory mergers, acquisitions, and joint operating agreements; statewide/multistate health system collaboratives; and distressed company transactions. Tom has handled dozens of specialty/primary care physician practice acquisitions, including physician private equity transactions, and developed regulatory-compliant physician employment compensation models, created dozens of provider-based clinics and co-management arrangements, developed accountable care organizations (ACOs) and advised regarding the use of ACO waivers, and implemented every type of physician-hospital joint venture. Representative matters include: advising Duke University Health System and WakeMed regarding their development of heart and cancer service line revenue mergers; counseling Yale New Haven Health regarding its acquisition of PriMed, a 120 physician/American College of Physicians (ACP) group practice; advising UPMC regarding the development of its provider-based oncology clinics; counseling Bon Secours Health System regarding the joint venture of its Charity Health System operations with Westchester Medical Center; developing numerous cardiovascular, orthopedic, oncology, and other service line co-management arrangements for UnityPoint Health facilities throughout Iowa and Illinois; and representing the Creditors Committee of AHERF in the sale through bankruptcy of the AHERF hospital operations in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Tom is a frequent lecturer at national conferences on the latest models for physician-hospital integration and has authored numerous articles on health law-related topics.