Matthew C. Jones concentrates his practice in the areas of healthcare and corporate law. His healthcare practice is focused on counseling clients such as hospitals, health systems, physicians, practice groups, pharmaceutical companies and other service providers on various aspects of healthcare transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, the formation of joint ventures, licensure and regulatory issues and tax issues affecting both nonprofit and for-profit entities. Mr. Jones also provides advice to clients on transactional, corporate governance and general contractual matters.

Mr. Jones was recognized by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of the Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers of 2004.

Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts, he is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations.

Mr. Jones is a 1995 summa cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law and a graduate of Lafayette College (B.S., Chemical Engineering).

Areas of Practice

Corporate Law
Healthcare Law

Representative Matters

Assisted cardiology practice in the negotiation and formation of an "under arrangement" joint venture with a nonprofit hospital, for a diagnostic cath lab.
Represented a three-hospital nonprofit health system in negotiating and implementing its acquisition of a neighboring nonprofit community hospital and related physician, services and real estate companies.
Represented faculty practice plan of major academic medical center in structuring and forming a new outpatient vascular access center, as a joint venture between the practice plan and an individual physician investor.
Worked with local counsel to advise for-profit 200-physician Midwestern multi-specialty physician group in its acquisition by a non-profit multi-hospital system, on issues such as governance, physician group management structure and physician compensation plan.
Represented faculty practice plan of major academic medical center in negotiation of a new exclusive affiliation and services contract with another large faculty practice plan.
Represented nonprofit HMO, owned by group of hospitals and healthsystems, in sale of its 20,000-member Medicare managed care business to a for-profit HMO.
Counsel to County in Idaho in connection with negotiation of agreement with a nonprofit healthcare system, to consolidate the County's general acute care hospital into the nonprofit system and construct a new hospital to replace the existing County facility. Representation included assistance in obtaining voter approval of transaction (through referendum), interim lease of existing County hospital to nonprofit system, and creation of County-controlled charitable "remainder foundation" to serve health needs of County citizens post-closing.
Represented nonprofit health system in the sale of a 180-bed nursing facility (asset sale) to another nonprofit healthcare organization.
Represented community hospital located in Western Pennsylvania in the structuring and implementation of a joint venture with a large academic medical center to jointly develop and operate an outpatient oncology center. Project involved a variety of issues including fraud and abuse matters, the use of a "friendly physician" ownership model in accordance with corporate practice of medicine regulations, and ensuring that the joint venture "leased employee" arrangements complied with third party payor requirements.
Represented the 700-physician faculty practice plan of a major academic medical center in structuring and negotiating a comprehensive affiliation agreement between the practice plan and the medical center, including agreements for clinical services, teaching and teaching administrative services, medical director services, space rental, research services and employee leasing.
Represented physician group in the formation of an outpatient radiation oncology center joint venture with a nonprofit hospital and contribution of the nonprofit hospital's inpatient oncology department to joint venture.
Represented physician group in the formation of an outpatient radiation oncology center joint venture with a nonprofit hospital.
Represented faculty practice plan in negotiation of a master affiliation agreement with the Dubai Health Authority, and related agreements for provision of physician credentialing and information technology services by our client.
Represented Massachusetts radiology group in the formation of a subsidiary to own and operate an outpatient elective diagnostic imaging center (full-body scan).
Represented nonprofit healthcare system in New York State in the formation of a joint venture between a for-profit company and our client to own, operate and develop outpatient dialysis clinics, and the contribution of existing clinics and businesses to the joint venture, including preparation of and evaluation of responses to RFP.
Represented nonprofit community hospital in the sale of the hospital and related assets to a for-profit hospital operator. This asset sale included the preparation of and evaluation of responses to an RFP, and the creation of a charitable "remainder foundation" to further the health needs of the community that had been served by the nonprofit hospital.
Represented New York nonprofit healthcare system in the divestiture of four physician practices to physicians.
Represented nonprofit healthcare system in an affiliation agreement between our client and a nonprofit dialysis company, for provision of inpatient and outpatient dialysis services at multiple nonprofit facilities.
Represented ophthalmologist in the formation of telemedicine start-up and negotiation and documentation of investment in the start-up by a public company.
Represented nonprofit community hospital in Delaware in the sale of its outpatient dialysis clinic to a public company.
Represented nonprofit health system in the acquisition of an acute care hospital from a for-profit company.
Represented nonprofit academic medical center in the drafting and negotiation of exclusive professional services agreements for an emergency medicine department and a pathology department of a nonprofit hospital.
Represented physician group in the formation of a joint venture with a nonprofit hospital, to develop, own and operate an outpatient radiation oncology center.
Represented nonprofit community hospital in the negotiation of a lease and services agreement between our client and a for-profit rehabilitation hospital, for an inpatient rehabilitation facility and a long-term acute care hospital.
Represented nonprofit health system in the formation of joint venture between our client and a publicly-traded ambulatory surgical center company, for the development and operation of outpatient surgery centers with physician investors.
Represented nonprofit psychiatric hospital in an academic affiliation agreement between our client and a nonprofit medical school.
Represented Colorado nonprofit general acute care hospital in the follow-on offering, to physician investors, of units in a hospital/physician-owned outpatient surgery center, and related amendments to the operating agreement.
Represented nonprofit psychiatric hospital in the formation of "whole hospital" joint venture between our client and a publicly held for-profit hospital company. Transaction also involved the creation of a condominium scheme of ownership for psychiatric hospital's real property, the ground lease of certain parcels to the joint venture, and the creation of a charitable "remainder foundation" to further the behavioral health needs of the community that had been served by the nonprofit psychiatric hospital.
Represented a physician in the formation of a limited partnership to develop, own and operate a 20-bed physician-owned general acute care hospital and an offering of partnership interests to physician investors. Our work included the negotiation of a construction contract for building and an opinion letter on CMS specialty hospital moratorium.
Local regulatory and borrowers' counsel for a New York-based investment fund in connection with the acquisition and financing of two assisted living facilities in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The representation included document review, CHOW and licensure applications and regulatory and loan agreement opinion letters.
Represented nonprofit healthcare system in negotiation and structuring of affiliation agreement with nonprofit community health system, to create new nonprofit corporation and develop, own and operate a new general acute care hospital to replace an existing hospital facility.

Professional Activities

Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
American Health Lawyers Association

Admissions

New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Education

Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1995
Lafayette College, B.S., Ch.E., 1990

Experience

Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2004-present
- Associate, 1995-2003
National Starch and Chemical Company, Bridgewater, New Jersey
- Technical Service Representative, Adhesive Division, 1990-1992

Honors and Awards

Recognized by Nightingale's Healthcare News as one of the Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers of 2004

Selected Publications

Co-author, "A Series of Unfortunate Events: Is This the End of the Physician/Hospital Joint Venture?" Health Lawyers News, February 2009