Health Law

Our Health Law Practice Group specializes in counseling health care providers and health care businesses regarding a broad range of business and regulatory issues that affect the health care industry in today’s highly-regulated environment.  The attorneys in our Health Law Practice Group draw on their health law, business, and corporate law experience to counsel clients, including hospitals, health systems, physician practices, pharmacies, health information businesses, and other health care providers and health care businesses.  We have counseled our clients regarding:

• Fraud and abuse, including Anti-kickback, Stark, and state anti-referral laws
• HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule compliance and audits, and state law privacy and confidentiality
• Professional practice and management entity structuring, formation, and corporate matters
• Mergers, acquisitions, practice restructuring, and other business transactions
• Physician recruitment, retention, and compensation
• Physician-hospital affiliations, joint ventures, and hospital-based physician contracts
• General corporate, contract, and employment matters
• Facility licensure, certification, and regulatory requirements
• Managed care contracting
• Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health care programs
• Tax-exemption issues