Health Care

For over 40 years our healthcare practice has been devoted to representing the needs of healthcare providers and businesses. We provide services to an array of clients, including:

• Hospitals
• Medical groups and physicians
• Independent Practice Associations
• Management Service Organizations
• Surgery centers
• Endoscopy centers
• Imaging centers
• Sleep laboratories

Our focus on the healthcare industry has enabled us to develop expertise on a wide-variety of the unique issues that health care providers and businesses face in a marketplace that is constantly changed by forces such as managed care, government regulation, consumer empowerment and information technology. To assist our clients with those issues we provide advise and counsel regarding the following matters:

• Fraud and abuse and "Stark" compliance
  
• Medical group, IPA and MSO formation and operations
• Managed care contracting
• HIPAA compliance
• Surgery center, endoscopy center and imaging center development
• Hospital-physician contracting
• Licensing and certification
• Practice and facility purchases, sales, mergers and syndications
• Medical office leasing

In addition to advising our clients with respect to typical healthcare law issues, our other departments serve our health care clients' related business law needs including general corporate, litigation, labor and employment, tax, real estate and estate planning.