Robert J. Crump

Area of Emphasis

Health Care and Bioscience Business Transactions

Bob represents inventors, manufacturers and distributors of medical devices and medical products, physician specialty practices, limited license practitioner practices, single-specialty and multi-specialty 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.

Bob has spoken at national programs sponsored by such organizations as the American Health Lawyers Association and the Hospital Financial Managers Association.

He is also a founding trustee as well as a two-term president of Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center, one of the country's leading programs for equine therapy programs for handicapped individuals. Bob now serves as a director of the Therapeutic Riding Center Foundation and the DDC Clinic for Special Needs Children, and as an officer and director of Horses and Humans Research Foundation. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and was named an Ohio Super Lawyer in the field of health care by Law & Politics magazine from 2004 through 2009.

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

Areas of Practice