Healthcare

With 18 Healthcare attorneys, we offer a fully-integrated, multidisciplinary approach to solving the complex problems faced by Healthcare systems in today’s highly regulated, fiercely competitive climate.  The Firm offers significant experience in Joint Ventures, Mergers, and Acquisitions; Anti-Kickback and Stark Laws; Hospital, Physician, and Managed Care Contracting; Organization and Governance; Medical Staff Bylaws; HIPAA; EMTALA; CON; Clinical Research; Medical Malpractice; Risk Management; Medical Ethics; and Financing and Tax.

RECENT MATTERS

  • Served as lead counsel in the Greenville Hospital System’s acquisition of a 20-physician multi-specialty group practice
  • Re-wrote the medical staff bylaws of three hospitals to streamline and improve the organization, credentials, privileges, and dispute resolution provisions
  • Defended a teaching hospital in a multi-million dollar dispute with Medicare over reimbursement for the cost of indirect medical education
  • Formed a captive insurance company for physicians employed by a for-profit hospital 
  • Currently representing several hospitals in cases where the plaintiffs allege unfair pricing for uninsured patients and seek class action status
  • Obtained a defense verdict for a hospital in a premises liability case alleging serious bodily injury

CLIENT ADVISORIES

IRS Issues Notice Regarding Community Health Needs Assessment for 501(c)(3) Hospital Organizations - July 2011

CMS Eases Requirements for Telemedicine Credentialing - May 2011

How the Healthcare Reform Act Impacts 501(C)(3) Hospitals - April 2010

2010 Proposed Medicare Physican Fee Schedule - January 2010

HITECH Alert - May 2009

2009 Final Physician Fee Schedule - March 2009

Nursing Homes Should Brace for Increased Regulation, Transparency in 2009 - January 2009

Red Flag Alert - October 2008

Final Stark Changes 2009 in Patient Prospective Payment System - August 2008

 

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