Health Care

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, and litigation experts.

Overview

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, 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 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.

  • 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.

Business Transactions

HunterMaclean’s business transactions attorneys handle a variety of corporate issues for clients throughout Georgia and the United States.

Corporate

HunterMaclean’s corporate law practice group represents clients in securities transactions, private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, and business and asset dispositions.

Corporate Taxation

HunterMaclean’s corporate taxation practice group provides outstanding counsel for clients who need assistance with an array of tax issues.

Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

The cybersecurity and data privacy team at HunterMaclean helps clients take a practical and strategic approach to managing the legal, business, and reputational risks associated with sensitive data.

Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense

HunterMaclean’s Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense attorneys provide comprehensive legal support to navigate these challenges. Our team is dedicated to protecting your rights and minimizing your exposure in the face…

Immigration

HunterMaclean’s immigration practice group has over twenty years of experience in a wide range of complex immigration issues and has represented foreign nationals and companies from all over the world.

Information Technology & Outsourcing

HunterMaclean’s information technology and outsourcing practice group provides clients with effective, practical, and dynamic solutions to technology-related contracting and legal compliance needs.

Litigation

HunterMaclean’s litigation attorneys regularly represent clients in federal and state courts, administrative proceedings, arbitration panels, and other alternative dispute resolution tribunals.

Mergers & Acquisitions

HunterMaclean’s mergers and acquisitions practice group has represented clients in a wide range of industries over the years, including consumer products and services, e-commerce, manufacturing, technology, logistics, commercial real estate,…

Nonprofit Organizations

HunterMaclean’s corporate and tax attorneys handle the formation and governance of nonprofit entities for a broad spectrum of clients and activities.

Sub-Practices

Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense

HunterMaclean’s Government Investigations & White-Collar Defense attorneys provide comprehensive legal support to navigate these challenges. Our team is dedicated to protecting your rights and minimizing your exposure in the face…

Health Care Compliance & Regulation

HunterMaclean’s health care attorneys provide advice and counseling to major health care providers on the entire spectrum of strategic and regulatory matters including fraud and abuse, managed care, arrangements with…

Health Care Litigation & Qui Tam Investigations

HunterMaclean’s skilled health care lawyers provide comprehensive legal services to health care providers, physicians and specialty practice groups, pharmaceutical companies, laboratory services, and other organizations within the health care industry…

HIPAA & Health Care Cybersecurity

HunterMaclean understands the critical importance of protecting health care information and ensuring compliance with the Health Information Portability and Accessibility Act (HIPAA). Our HIPAA & Health Care Cybersecurity team provides…


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Healthcare Hacks

December 1, 2019

Diana McKenzie, Chair of the IT & Outsourching Practice Group As hospitals become more dependent on technology, the risk of cybersecurity threats grows. Diana J. P. McKenzie discusses the cybersecurity…

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