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HunterMaclean’s skilled and experienced health care lawyers can effectively guide your organization through the dynamic and demanding health law landscape, offering comprehensive regulatory, transactional, and litigation services, coordinated with HunterMaclean’s full array of legal professionals, including fraud and abuse, corporate, information technology, tax, employment, real estate, immigration, and litigation experts.

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 Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court; a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who led the Civil Division in the Southern District of Georgia; and a Special Assistant Attorney General for both the Georgia Department of Human Services and the Georgia Technology Authority. We also include a former chairman of the Product Liability Advisory Council, an Assistant U.S. Trustee, former federal judicial clerks, IRS attorneys, JAG Corps attorneys, and trial attorneys with the U.S. Department of Justice. Our attorneys have chaired national bar committees, led healthcare law organizations, and served on the board of the Maritime Law Association. Many are members of respected groups including the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the American Health Lawyers Association, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. They are admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Tax Court, and courts across the country.

Experience

• Obtaining a favorable letter ruling from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division on a joint collaboration between two competing hospital systems for supply purchasing
• Representing a major hospital system in U.S. Department of Justice qui tam/whistleblower investigation and settlement involving the False Claims Act, Stark, and the Anti-Kickback Statute
• Hospital-physician structures and ventures including integration strategies, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and medical office buildings
• Strategic and regulatory counseling, fair market value assessments, managed care contracting and strategy, and negotiation and implementation of contractual and employment arrangements with physicians and other health care providers
• Representing a major hospital system in U.S. Department of Justice qui tam/whistleblower investigation and settlement involving the False Claims Act, Stark, and the Anti-Kickback Statute
• 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
• HIPAA (including HITECH) compliance and development of business associate agreements
• Represented providers, business associates, and other covered entities in OCR investigations for alleged HIPAA privacy and security violations.

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