Our firm has significant experience in the large and complex body of health and healthcare law which encompasses areas such as disability law, elder law, hospital law, and mental health law. We provide specialized representation and legal counseling of private and public healthcare providers, which consistently face complex and drastic changes in the laws and regulations with which they must comply. We represent public and private healthcare providers in a wide variety of issues, including:

• Provider contract drafting and analysis
• Joint venture agreements and regulatory analysis
• Assessment of private insurance coverage of state-of-the-art therapeutic procedures
• Lobbying and legislative services
• Medical malpractice and insurance coverage issues
• Patient care
• HIPAA
• Medical guardianship applications
• Development and expansion of integrated delivery systems
• Development of hospital corporate compliance programs
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Structuring for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals
• Handling and analysis of healthcare fraud and abuse matters
• Creation of hospital/physician joint ventures
• Corporate Management and Governance
• Licensure
• Certificates of Need (CON)
• Negotiation of bond financing
• Hiring and retention
• Reimbursement
• Peer Review and Risk Management
• Investigations and Mandatory Reporting
• Facility Privilege Actions and Reporting
• National Practitioner Data Bank and Healthcare Integrity & Protection Data Bank Issues and Reporting
• STARK
• Tax

We work proactively to identify and defuse potential problems before they develop. As a multi-disciplinary firm, we are able to provide our hospital clients with attorneys who not only specialize in healthcare law, but can also call on the expertise of attorneys who focus in the related fields of mergers and acquisitions, bond financing, business law and transactions and government relations.