Applied Behavioral Analysis and Medical and Education Services (BAMES)

Garfunkel Wild's Applied Behavioral Analysis and Medical and Education Services (BAMES) Practice Group is constantly evolving due to an extensive and ever-changing regulatory landscape, increasing demand for services, evolving care coordination and delivery elements, legislative mandates regarding reimbursement and licensure, and health plan enrollment, reimbursement and denial issues.
 
The BAMES team consists of subject-matter experts who understand the market, the continuum of care, and the complex regulatory and reimbursement environment.  Uniquely positioned as a name known throughout the health care sector for excellence, Garfunkel Wild can work with your management team to achieve efficient business solutions and implement cohesive, comprehensive, and compliant delivery models. 
 
The BAMES team works with client providers who offer a continuum of services that span a full array of coordinated program options for infants, toddlers, youth, teens, adults and seniors, including:
 

• Applied Behavior Analysis and Care Management Services
• Early Intervention/Special Education Programs
• Developmental Disability Centers and Hospitals
• Specialized Schools
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse Clinics
• Housing and Group Homes
• Social, Recreational and Therapeutic Services
• Federal and State Educational Support and Programs
• Home and Community Based Waiver Services
• Children's Camps

The BAMES team often collaborates with other Garfunkel Wild Practice Groups to work with all types of health care providers, private equity funds, and industry investors to facilitate M&A transactions, real estate development and transactions, and public finance work related to the BAMES sector, and routinely:
 

• Assists providers and their investors to establish and build delivery models from the ground up.
• Helps clients respond to government and payor audits, investigations and compliance matters.
• Assists with all types of credentialing and reimbursement issues.
• Assists with licensure applications with state Department of Health agencies, Medicare, and Medicaid.
• Negotiates all of types agreements and arrangements, including acquisition agreements, operating or shareholders’ agreements, equity issuance documents, and employment agreements that are necessary to take our clients’ programs from concept to implementation and beyond.