Our Health Care Group understands the medicine behind the matters. We work with our clients to create a team of professionals to match their needs. We are dedicated to partnering with our clients in order to provide access and ease of communication. The Health Care Group draws on the resources of our employee benefits, intellectual property, labor, tax, corporate, and trial practice groups to address specific client issues.
We bring unparalleled commitment and depth of experience to our representation of health care clients in transactional, compliance, and advocacy matters.
Our attorneys regularly counsel and represent the following types of organizations on health care matters:
areas of emphasis
- Bioethics
- Contracts
- Corporate and transactional matters
- Corporate governance
- Coverage and reimbursement
- Credentialing and peer review
- Employee benefits
- Employment and labor law
- Food and Drug Administration
- Fiduciary and board issues
- Fraud and abuse compliance
- Group health plan compliance issues
- Health information technology
- HIPAA compliance and health information and security
- Intellectual property
- Healthcare legislation and advocacy
- Licensing and certification
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Managed care arrangements
- Medical staff and peer review
- Mergers, sales, acquisitions, and reorganizations
- Patient consent
- Pharmacy benefit management
- contracts
- Physician organizations
- Private equity financings
- Public law
- Real estate
- Regulatory compliance
- Tax and tax-exempt issues
- Tax-exempt bond financing
representative services
regulatory
Our health care lawyers counsel clients with respect to a full range of health care regulatory matters at the state and federal levels. We guide clients in licensing, accreditation, investigatory, and enforcement actions. We review clients’ business practices and operations to ensure compliance with the Stark Laws, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and state equivalents.
financings
Our attorneys have served as bond counsel and borrower’s counsel for a variety of tax-exempt financings for healthcare institutions, including bond issues for hospitals and health systems, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, and hospice facilities. In addition to serving as counsel with respect to tax-exempt debt, our attorneys provide hospital systems and long-term care providers’ assistance with other types of financing transactions, including structuring and implementing revolving credit and equipment leasing programs and assisting with the structuring and oversight of debt management programs to maximize the effectiveness of swaps and other interest rate hedges.
Our lawyers have structured and implemented a number of significant financings for hospital systems and other healthcare providers. These transactions included:
- New money combined with both current and advance refundings of existing debt
- A combination of fixed rate uninsured bonds and insured auction rate bonds
- Related swaps including integrated forward fixed payor swaps and a "rate lock" swap
HIPAA compliance
Our attorneys have assisted a wide range of clients, from nationally known institutions to small physician offices, with all matters related to compliance with the HIPAA privacy and security rules. Our services include assessment of privacy procedures and potential risks, drafting and/or review of privacy policies and procedures, review of Business Associate Agreements, and ongoing advice as to HIPAA compliance. We have helped clients respond to breach events and have successfully resolved numerous enforcement actions with the HHS Office for Civil Rights.
group health plan contracting
Our lawyers serve as outside counsel to several public employment retirement systems with respect to their self-insured and insured health plans. We counsel these plans as to contracting with providers, ASO and PBM agreements, HIPAA, and Medicare Part D issues, such as participation in the retiree drug subsidy program.