Overview
Matthew Keuten focuses his practice primarily on advising clients in connection with healthcare regulatory, corporate, and transactional matters. A significant portion of his practice is dedicated to representing clients in a wide array of transactions involving information technology matters.
- Represents clients in connection with affiliations, mergers, and acquisitions
- Advises healthcare providers regarding compliance matters, including the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, state fraud and abuse laws, and the corporate practice of medicine
- Drafts and negotiates commercial contracts related to information technology matters, including licensing agreements, hosting agreements, software as a service agreements, reseller agreements, collocation agreements, and hardware acquisition and maintenance agreements
- Counsels clients on health care licensure and certification issues
- Advises clients regarding data privacy and security matters, including HIPAA issues
- Counsels clients on general corporate law matters and organizational issues
Services
Practice Areas
Industries
Experience
Representative Matters
- Assisted a large national Catholic healthcare system in various acquisition and divestiture transactions, including the acquisitions of hospitals, nursing facilities, and senior living facilities
- Assisted healthcare systems in the acquisition of physician practices
- Assisted private equity funds in the acquisition of healthcare portfolio companies, including companies providing intraoperative neuromonitoring services, rehabilitation and therapy services, and dental services
- Assisted home health provider in the acquisition of multiple home health companies
- Assisted clients in the formation of healthcare management services organizations
- Assisted for-profit healthcare system with the acquisition of a nonprofit community hospital
- Represented national provider of kidney care and renal products with various commercial contracts related to healthcare and information technology matters
- Assisted healthcare system with contractual negotiations for the deployment of an enterprise-wide electronic medical record system for its ambulatory service line
- Structured electronic health record donation programs for healthcare systems
- Assisted global industrial company in the restructuring of its information technology outsourcing arrangement
- Assisted provider of home care and infusion pharmacy services with unwinding of a joint venture with a large healthcare system
- Represented start-up companies, including a health and wellness information technology company and a hydration therapy company, with organizational matters, data privacy and security issues, and commercial contracting
Credentials
Education
Wayne State University Law School, J.D.
- cum laude
- Wayne Law Review, 2004-2006
Michigan State University, B.A.
- Political Economy
- with high honors
Admissions
- Michigan
Recognition
Awards
- The Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2024
- Recognized in practice area of Health Care Law
- Michigan Super Lawyers, Recognized as a Rising Star, 2008 and 2010-2012
- DBusiness, Top Lawyers, 2023-2024
Professional & Community Involvement
- State Bar of Michigan
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- Health Law Section
- Chair, 2017-2018
- Vice Chair, 2016-2017
- Treasurer, 2015-2016
- Health Care Law Section Council, 2014-2019
- Substantive Law Committee
- Chair, 2014-2015
- Vice Chair, 2013-2014
- Technology Subcommittee, 2010-2013
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- American Health Lawyers Association
- Michigan Health and Hospital Association
- Committee on Hospital-Physician Alignment, 2010-2011