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Practice Areas
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Practice Area | Health Care
- Overview
- Attorneys
- Representative Matters
- Industries Represented
With
the rapid pace of change in health care, it is important to have legal counsel
who can effectively navigate the maze of laws and regulations applicable to
this complex sector. Our health care attorneys have served clients in the health care field for over 25 years. We counsel clients on business, operational, transactional,
financial and regulatory activities as well as offering representation in
malpractice cases and providing risk management services.
Practice Focus
- Medical
staff and practitioner professional licensing and credentialing for hospitals,
clinics, managed care organizations and insurers
- Licensure,
Medicare/Medicaid certification, HMO qualification, and private accreditation
(JCAHO)
- Corporate
governance
- Tax
exempt status and state charitable trust guidance
- Tax-exempt
bond financing
- Mergers,
acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures
- Medicare
and Medicaid payment and participation
- Fraud
and abuse, including the Stark and Anti-Kickback statutes
- Certificate
of Need
- HIPAA
and state confidentiality laws
- Health
information technology
- Quality
assurance and risk management
- Defense
of medical negligence claims
- Medical
ethics, including patient consent and competency
- Anti-dumping
statute (EMTALA)
- Employment
- Immigration
- Antitrust
counseling
- Provider-payor
contracting
- Government
and community relations
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Our Health Care attorneys have:
- Guided health care clients through challenging requirements and opportunities, such as corporate compliance plan, electronic medical records, and HIPAA implementation
- Helped organize cooperative joint ventures among different providers, including to share expensive mobile and fixed technologies, to offer managed behavioral health care, and to establish a northern New England initiative designed to improve the health of mothers and newborns
- Assisted clients seeking approvals for innovative approaches to health care delivery by representing them before state facility and professional licensing agencies and the Certificate of Need Board
- Regularly participated in all aspects of facility construction, including the real estate, regulatory, financing and contracting processes
- Responded, on a daily basis, to the myriad questions that arise in health care operations such as patient confidentiality and consent.
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- Assisted living and nursing homes
- Health care
- Hospitals
- Pharmacy
- Physicians
- Residential care facilities
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