Representing healthcare providers. With compassion.

Healthcare Law

EXPERIENCE / AREAS OF FOCUS / COMPLIANCE COUNSEL / MEET OUR TEAM

Providing health care to a community is a noble pursuit and essential for the well-being of society.  Successfully starting, maintaining, and growing a health practice requires knowledgeable and effective legal counsel to help a practice avoid regulatory pitfalls relevant to the type of health care a provider furnishes or is considering, assert its rights with respect to predatory behavior that has become all too common among third-party payers.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR EXPERIENCE.

We counsel hospitals and other health care providers on patient care issues, such as informed consent, privacy and other patient rights and ethics issues. We have experience drafting and reviewing consent and release documents and are familiar with patient bills of rights.

We also provide legal advice on all manner of issues directly impacting the delivery of clinical services to ensure quality of care and patient safety. For example, we frequently counsel our clients on health care professional scope of practice, medical record documentation, emergency protocols, risk management concerns.

AREAS OF FOCUS

• Death and End of Life Issues
• Home Health
• Integrated Clinical Systems

We represent providers in:

• State and federal investigations,
• Claim audits,
• Qui tam and government actions,
• Licensure and certification proceedings, and
• Reimbursement litigation.

COMPLIANCE COUNSEL

Health care providers of all types function in a high-risk regulatory environment, and are common targets of governmental investigations as regulators and legislators continue to prioritize enforcement actions against perceived provider fraud and abuse.

• Medicare, Medicaid, and other Third-Party Payor Utilization / Documentation requirements
• Fraud and Abuse
• Antikickback Counsel and Safe Harbors
• Stark Law and Exceptions
• Governance, licensing and accreditation issues that arise in various health care settings.
• Regulatory compliance, reimbursement and payment practices.
  • Our team members have experience and expertise with Medicare and Medicaid administrative appeals, Medicare/Medicaid compliance strategies and reimbursement analyses associated with federal and state law impacting payment from governmental payers.