Healthcare Law
If you are in the healthcare business, congratulations! You are in the business of improving the quality of life and you participate in an industry that seems to grow without regard to the national economy. On the other hand, you are working in the most highly regulated industry in the world, you probably contract with the federal government for a significant portion of your revenues and all macroeconomic indicators point to declining future payments from all payor categories. Some have said that the healthcare industry is in “critical condition.” Making good decisions in this environment is also critical!
In addition to the standard business law and business transaction services we provide for healthcare clients, we strive to skillfully assist you in making the best possible strategic decisions and in developing “real world” solutions when faced with challenges in the following healthcare specific categories:
- Fraud and abuse, self-referrals and false claims.
- Negotiation and dispute resolution.
- General healthcare transactions.
- Hospital/physician arrangements.
- Physician practice management.
- Hospital licensing and regulation.
- Health system licensing and regulation.
- Physician organizations.
- Managed care and commercial reimbursement.
- Government program reimbursement.
- Healthcare antitrust issues.
- Billing and collection matters.
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In each of these areas, our services span from regulatory advice to operational advice to licensing issues to policy development to dispute resolution to contract implementation.
Why is it important to retain a healthcare legal specialist?
In today's healthcare business world of increasing liability and shrinking margins, the federal and state lawmakers will continue passing healthcare related laws. That’s a given. And the various regulatory authorities have become extremely serious about enforcing these laws. Many of the most egregious corporate wrongdoers are already on the hot seat and many more will find themselves facing civil and criminal penalties for activities they justified as industry-wide practices.
With this in mind, we believe that your relationship with your healthcare attorney has never been more important! One poor decision, unfortunately, can be devastating.
With the volume of new healthcare laws
and regulations over the past decade, you probably would not be surprised
to know that the practice of healthcare law has become very specialized,
with many attorneys working full time in a single aspect of healthcare
law (such as HIPAA compliance). Due to our past interaction with numerous
healthcare specialists and our current involvement with legal professionals
in all of the healthcare legal associations, we are very familiar with
the industry’s premier legal experts. If your matter needs subspecialty
legal consultation beyond our expertise, we will not hesitate to put you
in touch with the right specialist. In other words, we know what we don’t
know and we know who does know.
  
“In my over thirty years in healthcare, I have never met an attorney quite like Steve. He has an unparalleled understanding of the multitude of healthcare legal issues, ranging from the clinical to contractual to regulatory to reimbursement. From a regulatory standpoint, he has a sixth sense of about how the government will react to arrangements. His honesty and integrity is very refreshing in a world where most attorneys will just tell you what you want to hear or justify potentially dangerous behavior instead of steering you away from it.”
- D. Honigman, President
Strategic Resource Group West, Inc.
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