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Our health care attorneys provide advice and counseling to major health care providers regarding, among other matters: strategic and regulatory counseling, managed care contracting and strategy, negotiation and implementation of contractual and employment arrangements with physicians and other health care providers, establishment of and ongoing operational advice to independent physician associations and physician-hospital organizations, analysis and advice concerning compliance with Fraud and Abuse, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and Stark statutes and regulations, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, development and implementation of strategies to create vertically integrated delivery systems, CON and licensure compliance, and provider consolidation and related mergers, acquisitions, and joint venture transactions.

Our partnership includes a former chairman of the Product Liability Advisory Council, an Assistant U.S. Trustee for the District of Delaware, a former trial attorney with the U.S. Trustee Program in Delaware, former Assistant U.S. Attorneys, former federal judicial law clerks, former attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service, former attorneys in the U.S. Air Force’s and U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, a past chairman of the Admiralty Committee of the American Bar Association’s TIPS section, a former member of the board of directors of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, past presidents of the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys, and members of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the American Trial Lawyers Association. Our attorneys are also admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, U. S. Tax Court, several federal appellate and district courts, and numerous state courts.

Related practices

Related Practices

• Business Litigation
• Commercial Real Estate
• Corporate
• Corporate Taxation
• Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
• Employment
• ERISA & Employee Benefits
• Health Care
• Immigration
• Information Technology & Outsourcing
• Insurance Coverage & Defense
• Litigation
• Medical Malpractice
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Product Liability
• Professional Malpractice

Representative Engagements

• Analysis and advice concerning compliance with Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark, False Claims Act, qui tam/whistleblower investigations, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement

• Obtaining a dismissal of a defendant in a U.S. Department of Justice qui tam/whistleblower action against a health system and members of its medical staff

• $80M expansion of a software license, and establishment of a hosted services arrangement, for an EMR system on behalf of a large integrated health care delivery network in the Midwest

• $67M licensing and implementation of health information system of major health care vendor for multi-entity academic hospital medical center

• Intermediate sanctions/IRC Section 4958 and IRC Section 409A compliance and private inurement/private benefit analysis

• Counseling and assisting health care clients in methods of reducing their exposure to future medical malpractice claims, including providing educational in-service programs to employees on such issues as documentation and medical charting.

• Litigation relating to general liability of medical providers including claims involving improper security and physical or sexual assault of patients, visitors, or employees.

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