Professional Experience
Bob Crump is a partner with Walter & Haverfield LLP and serves on the firm's Management Committee. He has more than thirty years of experience in the commercial areas of legal practice and has developed a specialty in business transactions involving health care providers and other businesses in the health care industry. He is the section head of the firm's Health Care Practice Group. Bob has been recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine in the business/corporate and health care areas, and as one of Ohio's "leading lawyers" in Inside Business Magazine.
Presentations
Business Services and Capital Formation
Bob concentrates his business practice in service to health care industry businesses. He represents inventors, manufacturers and distributors of medical devices and medical products, physician specialty practices, limited license practitioner practices, single-specialty and multispecialty networks, ancillary diagnostic businesses, and ambulatory surgery centers. For these clients, Bob has handled mergers and acquisitions, projects involving Medicare reimbursement planning and avoidance of Medicare fraud and abuse violations, antitrust analysis and tax-exempt organization planning. Bob has also represented hospitals in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida on projects involving Medicare reimbursement and tax-exempt organization planning and reorganization of hospital structures.
Presentations
- "Health Care Technology, Legal and Business Perspectives", Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's Annual Health Care Law Institute, May 2, 2008.
- "Competitive Bidding Networks: How to Prepare for Joint HME Bidding Proposals," Medtrade Spring, Long Beach, CA, May 8, 2008.
- "Competitive Bidding in HME Networks," Medtrade Spring, Las Vegas, NV, April 26,2007 and October 2007, Orlando, FL.
- "Consolidations, Acquisitions and Mergers -- The What and Why for Shrinking the Tax-Exempt Community," Ohio Society of CPAs and United Way Services of Greater Cleveland, November 4, 2004. Articles
Professional & Community Associations
- American, Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center - Founding Trustee and two-time President
- Therapeutic Riding Center Foundation - Trustee
- Ohio State Bar Foundation Fellows Class of 2004
Education
Case Western Reserve University, J.D., 1968
Editor, Case Western Reserve Law Review, 1967-1968
Ohio Wesleyan University, B.A.,1965
Licensed to Practice
- Ohio
Awards & Recognitions2012 - Selected for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for his Health Care Law practice.2004 - present - Selected for inclusion in Inside Business magazine's listing of Northeast Ohio's "Leading Lawyers," an honor bestowed upon only one percent of the region's practicing attorneys - Health Care AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell 2005-2009 - Selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers magazine. Areas of practice: Health Care; Business/Corporate. 2005-2006: National Register's Who's Who In Executives & Professionals |
Articles by Robert J. CrumpDecember 2004 – Client Briefing on Health Care: Health Care Regulatory Update |
