William (Bill) H. Thompson

Attorney | Indianapolis

Phone: (317) 977-1424
| Fax: (317) 633-4878

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Indianapolis

Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.
500 N. Meridian Street
Suite 400
Indianapolis, IN 46204-1293

About William

Bill Thompson started his career in health administration, serving in administrative roles at a safety-net hospital affiliated with a large academic medical center. After completing his law degree, Bill joined Hall Render and gained experience in a wide array of health law issues. Today, Bill concentrates his practice on complex transactional matters, assisting clients with a wide range of deal structures. With dedicated industry knowledge to provide practical solutions to clients’ complex challenges, Bill serves as a trusted partner with the experience and drive necessary to get the deal done. Working alongside his clients nationwide, which include hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and children's hospitals, he embraces the opportunity to navigate complex transactions.

Bill’s experience includes counseling clients through a number of complex transactional arrangements, such as mergers and acquisitions, contractual arrangements and joint ventures. He has proven experience in strategically and efficiently advising his clients, whether they are looking to sell a hospital, acquire a physician practice or create a clinically integrated network. Additionally, Bill advises clients on alternative risk financing vehicles, including captive insurance companies, with a focus on offshore companies.

Bill currently serves as Chairman of the Firm, having previously served as Managing Partner for 10 years. He is actively involved within the legal community as a member of the American Health Law Association, the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Indiana State and Indianapolis Bar Associations. Additionally, Bill sits on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. In his free time, Bill is an avid polo player.

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EDUCATION

Indiana University, B.S. - 1980; Indiana University, M.H.A. - 1983

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, J.D. - 1987

ADMITTED TO BAR

  • Indiana - 1987
  • U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana - 1987
  • U.S. Court of Appeals - 1987
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims - 1993

memberships

  • American Health Law Association
  • American College of Healthcare Executives
  • Indiana State Bar Association
  • Indianapolis Bar Association

Experience

  • Acquisition and integration of a large faculty practice plan into a health system physician enterprise.
  • Affiliation of a large health system with the medical school of a large university.
  • Acquisition of a large pediatric anesthesia practice by a children’s hospital.
  • Representation of a blood products supplier in numerous acquisition and strategic affiliation arrangements.
  • Representation of numerous hospitals and health systems relative to ASC development and acquisition strategy.
  • Formation of Suburban Health Organization, Inc., an affiliation of a number of community-based hospitals.
  • Representation of a large health care system in the acquisition of a majority interest in a value-based enabling company.
  • Member substitution transaction resulting in the acquisition of a hospital by a large health system.

honors

  • Thompson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer
  • Ranked in Chambers USA, Healthcare
  • The Best Lawyers in America – Health Care Law

Representative Transactions Experience

  • Lead counsel involving a comprehensive management services agreement between a real estate/private debt alternative investment company and a health system to manage the health system’s post-acute services.
  • Lead and regulatory counsel for the joint venture between a health system and orthopedic group of two separately located ambulatory surgery centers, one existing center and the other a new development.
  • Support counsel where a hospital system transferred its physician group assets to a non-profit health system and redeemed its interest in a joint venture with the non-profit health system.
  • Lead counsel for a health system in a joint venture formation for a jointly owned linear accelerator.
  • Lead counsel for an academic medical center in the buyout of a minority interest in a radiation oncology center joint venture.
  • Lead counsel for a children’s hospital in the transfer of employment of 35 pediatric anesthesiologists from a national medical group of physicians and advanced practice providers to our client.
  • Supporting counsel to a health system for a joint venture which provided radiology services. Our client purchased another entity’s interest in the joint venture to become the sole owner.

Press Releases

94 Hall Render Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers®
[08/21/25 ] SEE MORE

Publications

How Independent and Smaller Hospitals Can Stay Afloat in the Wake of Transaction Scrutiny and Medicaid Cuts
[09/09/25] SEE MORE

Presentations

Practical Health Retreat 2023
[02/02/2023] SEE MORE

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