Bella Law represents Alaska healthcare owners in a state where the law is mostly silent, and the silence has to be read.

Alaska has no corporate practice of medicine statute, no healthcare transaction notice law and no non-compete statute. Its rules are thinner and sharper. An ownership rule sits buried in the Certificate of Need regulations, a professional corporation act cannot be sold around, and a tribal health system runs on federal law. The firm's founder and managing attorney, Babak Kalbasigharavi, ran healthcare companies for twenty years before he practiced law. The firm reads Alaska's gaps the way a buyer's counsel will. The work below is what the firm does for an Alaska owner. Most of it is the same work as anywhere else. The Alaska part is knowing where the state stopped writing, and what fills the gap when it did. Most of it is the same work as anywhere else. The Alaska part is knowing where the state stopped writing, and what fills the gap when it did.

Choosing the Alaska entity that decides who may ever buy the practice, and drafting for the rule the Board can enforce

No Alaska statute bars a company from owning a practice, and no Alaska court has adopted the doctrine. The entity choice does that work instead. A professional corporation under Alaska Stat. ch. 10.45 may issue shares only to licensed physicians and may transfer them only to licensed physicians. It forbids proxies and voting trusts, so it cannot be sold to a non-physician or rolled up. An ordinary LLC under ch. 10.50 may render professional services with no member-licensure rule at all. The firm forms the one that fits the owner's exit, and writes down why.

The Medical Board can reach the physician, through a rule that adopts the AMA Code of Medical Ethics by reference (12 AAC 40.955). The firm drafts the management company and its fee so a physician client never has to defend the arrangement against that code.

For a health-tech founder the work is the entity, the equity, the code assignment and the founder agreements. It also covers Alaska's genetic privacy act, one of the sharpest in the country, and the telemedicine business registry every company serving Alaskans must join (12 AAC 02.600).

Read more: Alaska corporate practice. The Startups and Founders page covers the engagement.

Keeping a practice or product outside Certificate of Need review, and inside HIPAA and the FDA line

Alaska still runs a Certificate of Need program, at a $1.5 million line frozen since July 1, 2014. A sale alone does not trigger it. A physician office with any owner who is not a physician does trigger it, and few owners know it. The office exclusion holds only while physicians own 100% of the business and its assets (7 AAC 07.001(b)). The firm checks the test before an investor comes in, not after.

On the federal layer the work is the same as anywhere. Of the HIPAA actions the Office for Civil Rights closed in 2025, 76% included a finding on a missing or inadequate risk analysis (HIPAA Journal, 2025). The firm writes the analysis, the business associate agreements and the data terms to the stack you run. It maps a product against the FDA device rules and the clinical decision support tests.

Alaska joined the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact on June 23, 2026, along with the physician assistant compact and PSYPACT. A licensed provider may see a patient by telehealth without a prior in-person visit (Alaska Stat. § 08.02.130). The firm builds a telehealth company's licensure plan on the current rules, which every pre-2026 analysis now misstates.

Read more: Alaska Certificate of Need. The Digital Health and AI page covers the engagement.

Selling an Alaska healthcare business, with the license, the Medicaid file and the tribal relationships mapped before the buyer asks

Alaska requires no notice to any agency before a healthcare business changes hands. It wants the license and the Medicaid file instead. A facility license does not transfer without the Department of Health's authorization (Alaska Stat. § 47.32.080), so the buyer applies anew under the 7 AAC 12 or 7 AAC 75 rules for its facility type, and Medicaid enrollment is updated in writing within 30 days, 60 for some programs. The firm runs both filings and confirms the day-counts with the Division directly, because the ones that circulate could not be verified.

The tribal health layer is where an outside buyer stumbles. About 99% of the Indian Health Service's Alaska budget runs through tribal organizations under federal compacts. A clinician licensed anywhere may work in that system on a 14-day notice, and malpractice claims run against the United States. The firm maps every referral, payor and facility relationship a target has with a tribal health organization before diligence opens.

Non-competes are judge-made law in Alaska. Data Management, Inc. v. Greene, 757 P.2d 62 (Alaska 1988) lets a court rewrite an overbroad covenant only if the employer drafted it in good faith, with the burden on the employer. The firm drafts covenants a court can save and prices a practice on the ones it will. A seller with that rule in hand ahead of the buyer keeps the upper hand on price. A seller with that rule in hand ahead of the buyer keeps the upper hand on price.

Read more: Alaska licenses and Medicaid, Alaska non-competes, what is distinctly Alaskan. The Acquisition and Exit page covers the engagement.

The engagement is the same in every jurisdiction: one figure, one scope, and the attorney who took the first call

The first conversation is confidential, runs about twenty minutes, and carries no charge. Within forty-eight hours you receive one flat fee against a written scope that names the date the work ends. The attorney who takes the first call does the work, and the firm keeps a limited number of matters open at once so that promise holds.

Babak Kalbasigharavi is admitted in Alaska. Alaska clients are served by video from the firm's Houston office, and in person by arrangement. He is also admitted in Texas and New York, and he is not admitted in Florida. A matter under another state's law runs with co-counsel in that state, named to you before any work starts.

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This page describes the firm's services and is attorney advertising. The page is general information as of September 25, 2026, not legal advice. Reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Figures and rules on this page: Alaska Stat. chs. 10.45 and 10.50; Alaska Stat. §§ 08.02.130, 08.64.253, 08.64.254, 18.07.031, 18.07.111, 47.32.080; 7 AAC 07.001(b); 7 AAC 12; 7 AAC 75; 12 AAC 02.600; 12 AAC 40.955, 40.981; 25 U.S.C. §§ 1621t, 5321(d); Indian Health Service, Alaska Area; Data Management, Inc. v. Greene, 757 P.2d 62 (Alaska 1988); HB 110 (34th Legislature, law 2026-06-23); HIPAA Journal, 2025 OCR enforcement summary. Each is treated at length in the Alaska article series linked above.