Hospitals and Health Systems

We provide general legal representation and counsel for numerous small, medium, and large hospitals and health systems. Our representation involves all substantive areas of law that hospitals and health systems encounter, including fraud and abuse compliance, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Physician Self-Referral Law, False Claims Act, medical staff issues, corporate and governance issues, tax-exempt status issues, and all types of hospital and physician contracting.

We represent a variety of physicians, ranging from one-physician practices to multi-group practices in all legal matters. The experience and perspective our lawyers have acquired in representing hospitals and health systems assists us in counseling physicians in their relationships with those hospitals and health systems. In addition, our services cover the wide spectrum of health care issues that physicians face, including HIPAA compliance, False Claims Act, fraud and abuse, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Stark Physician Self-Referral Law compliance, as well as reimbursement issues.

We have counseled a variety of health care providers and organizations with respect to HIPAA and health information privacy and security issues and assisted in the development of a variety of compliance programs.

Every health care transaction and contract must be analyzed in light of the complex federal and state fraud and abuse compliance requirements, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Stark Physician Self-Referral Law. We have significant experience in counseling and defending clients in this constantly evolving area of the law.

We advise and counsel our hospital, health system, physician group and health care organization clients regarding the federal and state antitrust issues inherent in many contractual, joint venture, and other affiliation transactions commonly encountered in the health care industry today.

The health care industry is quickly evolving with respect to electronic matters. Communications among all of the industry players (from payors to health care providers to patients) are being accomplished more and more through electronic and digital means. For example, there is a significant movement underway toward computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems. These types of communication have unique issues that require significant legal experience to navigate. Our lawyers have that experience.

We have assisted in a variety of financings in connection with health care entities and transactions. We have frequently served as counsel to hospitals and health systems in both taxable and tax-exempt public hospital revenue bond financings.

Our attorneys have represented a variety of health care providers and organizations in connection with acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and joint ventures. This representation has ranged from the development of small ancillary health care service joint ventures between hospitals and physicians to a combination of large health systems.