Mr. Stadler's practice is principally devoted to advising healthcare clients and tax exempt organizations in various transactions and disputes.  He represents healthcare providers, practitioners, and related enterprises in all aspects of their operations including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; corporate structuring and reorganization; contracting; managed care issues; professional rights disputes; reimbursement appeals; licensure and regulatory compliance matters; tax exemption issues; and antitrust compliance.  Mr. Stadler provides general counsel services to several hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies and other healthcare related entities.  He also has an active healthcare litigation practice which encompasses tax exemption disputes, healthcare contract claims, professional rights litigation, and the like.  The balance of his practice involves the representation of for profit and not for profit businesses in commercial transactions and litigation.

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Supreme, Superior and Commonwealth Courts of Pennsylvania

Education

• J.D. (Law Review) University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1981
• B.A. Yale University, 1978

Representative Matters

• Assisted a university in establishing a medical school.
• Represented local community leaders in acquiring governance and control of a local hospital from a national healthcare system.
• Structured and implemented joint ventures to own and operate nursing facilities, surgery centers, renal dialysis facilities, radiation treatment facilities and the like.
• Negotiated and closed hospital merger, asset sale and affiliation transactions.
• Represented both physicians and institutions in structuring and consummating physician practice acquisitions.
• Successfully resolved Medicare fraud and False Claims Act prosecutions involving both institutional providers and individual practitioners.
• Represented hospitals in developing and implementing physician recruitment and retention programs.
• Negotiated managed care and third-party payor contracts for hospitals, a large multi-specialty physician practice, and other providers.
• Represented hospitals, nursing facilities and home health agencies in successful reimbursement appeals before the PRRB, the Department of Public Welfare and throughout the state and federal courts.
• Represented hospitals and physicians in medical staff privilege disputes and related court proceedings.
• Established numerous non profit corporations and assisted them in securing applicable tax exemptions.

Memberships

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Allegheny County Bar Association, Health Law Section
• Pennsylvania Society of Hospital Attorneys
• American Health Lawyers Association

Professional Activities

• Board Member and Treasurer, Vincentian Home
• Member, Vincentian Collaborative System Finance Committee
• Board Member and Treasurer, Yale Club of Pittsburgh
• Delegate, Yale University, Association of Yale Alumni
• Member, North Catholic High School Futures Committee
• Board Member, Young Inventors International
• Past President and Board Member, Lloydmont Association
• Past Treasurer, Allegheny County Bar Association, Health Law Section
• Past Member, University of Pittsburgh Institutional Review Board
• Past Member, Treesdale Golf & Country Club Board of Directors
• Past President and Board Member, St. Alphonsus Athletic Association
• Past Member, St. Alphonsus Parish Building Committee

Seminars & Speeches

• Speaker, Representing Tax-Exempt Organizations, Lorman Educational Services (March 2006)
• Speaker, Advanced Issues for Pennsylvania Tax-Exempt Organizations, Lorman Education Services (August 2001)
• Speaker, Impaired Physicians, University of Pittsburgh Medicare Center – University of Pittsburgh Physicians (October 2000)
• Speaker, Hospital Gainsharing Arrangements, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (January 2000)
• Speaker, Emerging Medicare Issues, Fraud & Abuse/Compliance, Leadership Health Care, National LTC Conference (November 1999)
• Speaker, Hospital and Physician Compliance Issues, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (January 1999)
• Speaker, Compliance: Hotlines and Employee Issues, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (January 1999)
• Speaker, Physician Credentialling, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (September 1998)
• Speaker, Connections to Compliance, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (March 1998)
• Speaker, Tax Exemption and Fraud and Abuse Aspects of Health Care Employment Arrangements, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (January 1998)
• Speaker, Physician Employment Contract Issues, Washington Hospital (December 1997)
• Speaker, Managed Health Care: Balancing Quality and Cost, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Health Law Society (March 1996)
• Speaker, Strategic Planning and the New Certificate of Need Legislation, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (March 1993)
• Speaker, Confidentiality of Medical Records, Medical Educational Services (April 1990)

Publications

• Author, What Does HIPAA Mean to Your Organization?, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 2002)
• Author, Golf Fundraisers Unlikely to Raise Fraud and Abuse Concerns, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer 2001)
• Author, The Office of Inspector General Revives Gainsharing, Assisted Living Success (September 2000); Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 2001)
• Author, Transactions with Tax-Exempt Organizations, Assisted Living Success (September 2000); Cohen & Grigsby Review (Winter 2000)
• Author, Effective Collection Practices, Assisted Living Success (June 2000)
• Author, Management of Trust Funds Held by Nonprofit Corporations, Hospital News (June 2000)
• Author, Fundamentals of Risk Management, Assisted Living Success (December 1999)
• Author, Is There a Future for Hospital/Physician Gainsharing, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer/Fall 1999)
• Co-author, Purchase and Sale of Assisted Living Facilities:  Taking One Step at a Time Guarantees a Smoother Process, Assisted Living Success (August 1999)
• Author, Beware of Latent Fraud & Abuse Problems, Assisted Living Success (May 1999), Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 1999)
• Author, AHERF Bankruptcy Promises to Shed Light on Significant Non-Profit Healthcare Issues, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Winter 1999)
• Author, PPS and Assisted Living, Assisted Living Success (January 1999)
• Author, OIG Provides Guidelines for Hospital Compliance Plans, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 1998)
• Author, Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act Clarifies PA Tax-Exemption Issues, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Winter 1998)
• Author, Medicare Targets Home Healthcare Fraud, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Fall 1997)
• Author, Sunset on CON, Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 4, STAT, A Monthly News Bulletin of the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania (May 1997)
• Author, Pennsylvania Not-for-Profit Corporations, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (November 1990)
• Author, Hospital Compliance with Medicare Secondary Payor Program, Hospital Law Newsletter (November 1987)