We advise administrators, physicians, health system executives and in-house counsel on legal and business issues facing health care providers. For clients without in-house legal staff, we offer services on a project basis or as part of an integrated and comprehensive Virtual General Counsel Program. For clients with in-house staff, we can extend your legal department capacity in times of high demand or staff absences.
Our expertise includes:
- Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
- Contracts and clinical service agreements
- Physician recruitment & professional contracting
- Medical staff bylaws & credentialing
- Medical staff investigations
- Compliance counseling, including internal compliance investigations
- Remediation of regulatory violations
- Joint Commission accreditation
- Medicare Conditions of Participation
- Corporate bylaws
- Nonprofit governance
- Clinical-care crises
- End-of-life decision-making
- Medical records release and HIPAA requirements
- Treatment of minors
- Behavioral health questions
- Law-enforcement and government investigations
- Hearing officer services
- Hospital tax exemption issues
- Form 990 compliance
When clients face significant or high-profile litigation, we provide comprehensive litigation management services, helping you identify and select appropriate litigation counsel, negotiate rates and fee structures, evaluate alternative dispute resolution options and assess settlement options.