Hospitals
Our hospital clients rely on the legal team at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd to help them succeed in a highly regulated, fiercely competitive environment. With more than a dozen attorneys in our healthcare industry practice group, our firm offers a fully-integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to solving the complex problems faced by hospitals and healthcare systems.
HOSPITAL LAW AREAS OF PRACTICE:
- Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Anti-Kickback and Stark Laws
- Hospital, Physician and Managed Care Contracting
- Organization and Governance
- Medical Staff By-laws
- HIPAA
- EMTALA
- Certificate of Need, Licensure and Accreditation
- Clinical Research
- Professional Negligence
- Risk Management
- Medical Ethics
- Financing and Tax
EXPERIENCE:
- 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
