Robert J. Crump

Professional Experience

Bob Crump is a partner with Walter & Haverfield LLP and Section Head of its Health Care Practice Group. He also serves on the firm's Management Committee. He has over 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.

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 the American Health Lawyers Association, Hospital Financial Managers Association, and St. Louis University, and he has also spoken at many regional and local programs sponsored by the Ohio and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations, the Ohio CPA Society, and private seminar presenters.

Bob also served for many years as Trustee and President of the Board of Trustees of the Riverside Academy of Music and is a Founding Trustee as well as a two-term President of Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center, which is 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 also a member of the Advisory Board for a number of these clients.