Healthcare

Our healthcare lawyers counsel companies and providers in the heavily regulated and rapidly changing healthcare industry. Our practice encompasses transactional and regulatory matters, litigation, and corporate counseling. Providing a deep level of understanding and experience in the healthcare industry, we know how to navigate the laws and work with the regulatory bodies that govern them.

Our team guides clients through intricate government regulations, negotiates complex corporate transactions, and advocates on their behalf in complex litigation. We advise clients across the industry, including:

• Academic medical centers
• Ambulatory surgery centers
• Hospitals
• Federally qualified health centers
• Home care providers
• Hospice
• Large commercial insurers
• Life science & biomedical researchers
• Managed care organizations
• Medicaid managed care plans
• Pharmaceutical & medical equipment manufacturers
• Physicians, physician groups, & other healthcare professionals
• Providers of mental health, substance use disorder, & intellectual and developmental disability services
• Skilled nursing facilities
• Treatment centers

In our healthcare transactional work, we advise clients through corporate structuring and reorganization, mergers and acquisitions, financing and affiliations. We also help clients deal with government regulations such as federal and state fraud and abuse laws and professional practice laws.

When defending healthcare professionals, we represent them in a range of matters related to threats of exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid programs, termination from insurance plans, allegations of false claims or misconduct, and claims audits.

Across our entire practice, we apply the first-hand experience of lawyers who have worked in government agencies to provide insight into the most productive approaches to successfully representing our clients. We are proud of the strong relationships we develop across many agencies and work closely with the Department of Health, Office of Mental Health, Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, and other agencies that regulate the healthcare sector.

In the changing face of healthcare, we help clients who are encountering new technologies and weather the increasing financial and regulatory pressures of provider consolidations. To that end, we:

• Help providers operate in the value-based purchasing (VBP) environment. We work to ensure they understand the implications of new risk arrangements and the best ways to construct these arrangements, drafting and memorializing agreements, and providing litigation services when contracting parties do not live up to their agreements. We also help providers access the financial support available to assist in their transition to the VBP environment.
• Advise clients interested in (or forced into) potential consolidations. We help them identify the optimal partners—of the same provider type or across provider types—and arrangements. Even more important, when providers are being forced into consolidations, we help push back against unfair legislation and regulations.
• Help providers and payors respond to the challenges of emerging healthcare delivery technologies. We leverage our in-depth understanding of state and federal telehealth regulations to help providers operate on the cutting edge of healthcare technology while remaining in compliance.

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