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Our clients come from a broad range of healthcare organizations, including:

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Our clients come from a broad range of healthcare organizations, including:

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<li>Suppliers and pharmaceutical companies.</li>

<li>Long-term and post-acute care providers.</li>

Home health, hospice and specialized niche providers.

<li>Home health, hospice and specialized niche providers.</li>

Venture capital funds and private equity entities operating in the healthcare sector.

<li>Venture capital funds and private equity entities operating in the healthcare sector.</li>

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<ul><li>Hospitals and health systems.</li><li>Physician practices.</li><li>Suppliers and pharmaceutical companies.</li><li>Long-term and post-acute care providers.</li><li>Home health, hospice and specialized niche providers.</li><li>Venture capital funds and private equity entities operating in the healthcare sector.</li></ul>

We have counseled many of our clients, including some of the nation’s leading medical facilities, for decades. We provide responsive and creative solutions for navigating the multitude of legal and regulatory issues involved in this heavily regulated industry.

We have counseled many of our clients, including some of the nation’s leading medical facilities, for decades. We provide responsive and creative solutions for navigating the multitude of legal and regulatory issues involved in this heavily regulated industry.

We routinely assist our healthcare industry clients with addressing matters and issues of concern and relevance, including:

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We routinely assist our healthcare industry clients with addressing matters and issues of concern and relevance, including:

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<li>Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.</li>



<li>Private equity and venture capital fund investments in healthcare entities.</li>



<li>Affiliations, joint ventures and strategic alignments.</li>



<li>Portfolio company acquisition and disposal.</li>



<li>Liquidity and realization events.</li>



<li>Management buyouts.</li>



<li>Senior, mezzanine and warrant financings.</li>



<li>Strategic alignment.</li>
</ul>

<li>Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.</li>

Private equity and venture capital fund investments in healthcare entities.

<li>Private equity and venture capital fund investments in healthcare entities.</li>

Affiliations, joint ventures and strategic alignments.

<li>Affiliations, joint ventures and strategic alignments.</li>

Portfolio company acquisition and disposal.

<li>Portfolio company acquisition and disposal.</li>

<li>Liquidity and realization events.</li>

Senior, mezzanine and warrant financings.

<li>Senior, mezzanine and warrant financings.</li>

<ul><li>Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.</li><li>Private equity and venture capital fund investments in healthcare entities.</li><li>Affiliations, joint ventures and strategic alignments.</li><li>Portfolio company acquisition and disposal.</li><li>Liquidity and realization events.</li><li>Management buyouts.</li><li>Senior, mezzanine and warrant financings.</li><li>Strategic alignment.</li></ul>

Enforcement and Corporate Governance

Enforcement and Corporate Governance

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<li>Internal investigations and corporate oversight.</li>



<li>False Claims Act litigation and investigations.</li>



<li>Civil investigative demands and subpoenas.</li>



<li>Civil and criminal healthcare enforcement matters.</li>
</ul>

Internal investigations and corporate oversight.

<li>Internal investigations and corporate oversight.</li>

False Claims Act litigation and investigations.

<li>False Claims Act litigation and investigations.</li>

Civil investigative demands and subpoenas.

<li>Civil investigative demands and subpoenas.</li>

Civil and criminal healthcare enforcement matters.

<li>Civil and criminal healthcare enforcement matters.</li>

<ul><li>Internal investigations and corporate oversight.</li><li>False Claims Act litigation and investigations.</li><li>Civil investigative demands and subpoenas.</li><li>Civil and criminal healthcare enforcement matters.</li></ul>

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<li>Medicare and Medicaid coding and billing reviews.</li>



<li>Government and commercial prepayment and post-payment audits and appeals.</li>



<li>Payment suspensions.</li>



<li>Managed care payment disputes.</li>
</ul>

Medicare and Medicaid coding and billing reviews.

<li>Medicare and Medicaid coding and billing reviews.</li>

Government and commercial prepayment and post-payment audits and appeals.

<li>Government and commercial prepayment and post-payment audits and appeals.</li>

<ul><li>Medicare and Medicaid coding and billing reviews.</li><li>Government and commercial prepayment and post-payment audits and appeals.</li><li>Payment suspensions.</li><li>Managed care payment disputes.</li></ul>

Regulatory

Regulatory

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<li>Regulatory and compliance advice.</li>



<li>Anti-Kickback and Stark laws.</li>



<li>False Claims Act.</li>



<li>Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ) Act.</li>



<li>Emergency Medical Treatment &amp; Labor Act (EMTALA).</li>



<li>Licensing and certification matters.</li>



<li>Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).</li>



<li>Compliance program development.</li>



<li>Clinical research program development.</li>



<li>Audits and proceedings initiated by fiscal intermediaries, program integrity contractors, and federal and state governmental authorities.</li>
</ul>

<li>Regulatory and compliance advice.</li>

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ) Act.

<li>Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ) Act.</li>

Emergency Medical Treatment &amp; Labor Act (EMTALA).

<li>Emergency Medical Treatment &amp; Labor Act (EMTALA).</li>

<li>Licensing and certification matters.</li>

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

<li>Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).</li>

<li>Clinical research program development.</li>

Audits and proceedings initiated by fiscal intermediaries, program integrity contractors, and federal and state governmental authorities.

<li>Audits and proceedings initiated by fiscal intermediaries, program integrity contractors, and federal and state governmental authorities.</li>

<ul><li>Regulatory and compliance advice.</li><li>Anti-Kickback and Stark laws.</li><li>False Claims Act.</li><li>Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ) Act.</li><li>Emergency Medical Treatment &amp; Labor Act (EMTALA).</li><li>Licensing and certification matters.</li><li>Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).</li><li>Compliance program development.</li><li>Clinical research program development.</li><li>Audits and proceedings initiated by fiscal intermediaries, program integrity contractors, and federal and state governmental authorities.</li></ul>

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<li>Privacy law compliance, both federal and state.</li>



<li>Data breach response, including crisis management and investigations or audits.</li>
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Privacy law compliance, both federal and state.

<li>Privacy law compliance, both federal and state.</li>

Data breach response, including crisis management and investigations or audits.

<li>Data breach response, including crisis management and investigations or audits.</li>

<ul><li>Privacy law compliance, both federal and state.</li><li>Data breach response, including crisis management and investigations or audits.</li></ul>

Policy

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<li>Legislative and regulatory proposals involving healthcare issues.</li>



<li>Communication with those on Capitol Hill and administration policymakers, administrative agencies and enforcement officials.</li>
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Legislative and regulatory proposals involving healthcare issues.

<li>Legislative and regulatory proposals involving healthcare issues.</li>

Communication with those on Capitol Hill and administration policymakers, administrative agencies and enforcement officials.

<li>Communication with those on Capitol Hill and administration policymakers, administrative agencies and enforcement officials.</li>

<ul><li>Legislative and regulatory proposals involving healthcare issues.</li><li>Communication with those on Capitol Hill and administration policymakers, administrative agencies and enforcement officials.</li></ul>

We provide a full range of services to clients that need help in many different areas and matters affecting their businesses and operations. Our attorneys routinely work with clients to form new entities and ventures and to assist them with the negotiation and implementation of strategic transactions. We help clients respond to data breaches and other privacy matters, identify and advise on specific fraud and abuse risk areas, support their defense against enforcement investigations and proceedings, and develop and execute legislative and regulatory strategies, among many other tasks.

We provide a full range of services to clients that need help in many different areas and matters affecting their businesses and operations. Our attorneys routinely work with clients to form new entities and ventures and to assist them with the negotiation and implementation of strategic transactions. We help clients respond to data breaches and other privacy matters, identify and advise on specific fraud and abuse risk areas, support their defense against enforcement investigations and proceedings, and develop and execute legislative and regulatory strategies, among many other tasks.

We help hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and other medical providers grow through many different avenues, including facility acquisitions and leasing, financing arrangements, management contracts, affiliate agreements, and the creation of new relationships with relevant partners.&nbsp;Additionally, we counsel them on the full range of operational matters. We work with physician groups of all sizes to structure joint ventures and other relationships among physicians, physician groups, hospitals, specialty healthcare service providers and others in the industry.

We help hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and other medical providers grow through many different avenues, including facility acquisitions and leasing, financing arrangements, management contracts, affiliate agreements, and the creation of new relationships with relevant partners.&nbsp;Additionally, we counsel them on the full range of operational matters. We work with physician groups of all sizes to structure joint ventures and other relationships among physicians, physician groups, hospitals, specialty healthcare service providers and others in the industry.

Our Healthcare Privacy team excels at addressing HIPAA issues and has provided timely and discreet advice to clients through more than 500 data breach responses, including responses to the three largest U.S. healthcare data breaches ever reported. We counsel healthcare providers and other covered entities on HIPAA and state privacy law compliance, breach response, crisis management, and regulatory investigations and audits. In this period of aggressive regulatory enforcement, our enforcement and compliance attorneys help keep our clients out of the headlines by proactively identifying and providing advice on their specific risk areas, including those related to the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws, the False Claims Act, HIPAA and the HITECH Act, EMTALA, licensing and certification matters, OSHA, and a wide range of coding and billing issues. Our team has substantial experience defending providers in all facets of audits and proceedings initiated by fiscal intermediaries, program integrity contractors, and federal and state governmental authorities, among many others.

Our Healthcare Privacy team excels at addressing HIPAA issues and has provided timely and discreet advice to clients through more than 500 data breach responses, including responses to the three largest U.S. healthcare data breaches ever reported. We counsel healthcare providers and other covered entities on HIPAA and state privacy law compliance, breach response, crisis management, and regulatory investigations and audits. In this period of aggressive regulatory enforcement, our enforcement and compliance attorneys help keep our clients out of the headlines by proactively identifying and providing advice on their specific risk areas, including those related to the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws, the False Claims Act, HIPAA and the HITECH Act, EMTALA, licensing and certification matters, OSHA, and a wide range of coding and billing issues. Our team has substantial experience defending providers in all facets of audits and proceedings initiated by fiscal intermediaries, program integrity contractors, and federal and state governmental authorities, among many others.

We have specialized healthcare reimbursement experience in Medicare and Medicaid program payment matters, having handled major reimbursement disputes in both Medicare and Medicaid graduate medical education (GME) and disproportionate share hospital (DSH) issues. We assist with a wide range of Medicare and Medicaid appeals and audits. We also represent hospitals and physicians in managed care negotiations and contracting and payment disputes, and we are experienced in Medicare and Medicaid managed care law and regulations. We work to manage enrollment, changes in ownership and certification issues, licensing and Joint Commission responses, and corrective action issues. We have lawyers skilled in reimbursement appeals and financial payment concerns arising with state and federal government payers as well as commercial payers. Changes in administration can create significant changes in the manner in which healthcare can be delivered and Medicare and Medicaid may be funded. Our Healthcare Public Policy team closely monitors emerging policies, advancing our clients’ interests on Capitol Hill with relevant healthcare agencies and with the then-current administration. We routinely assist clients in developing legislative and regulatory proposals and legislative language to help them effectively communicate; advocate on their behalf; develop strategies for advancing their goals; and manage the adverse impacts that healthcare legislation and regulation may have on their organizations. We also work with trade associations in partnering to advance their message.

We have specialized healthcare reimbursement experience in Medicare and Medicaid program payment matters, having handled major reimbursement disputes in both Medicare and Medicaid graduate medical education (GME) and disproportionate share hospital (DSH) issues. We assist with a wide range of Medicare and Medicaid appeals and audits. We also represent hospitals and physicians in managed care negotiations and contracting and payment disputes, and we are experienced in Medicare and Medicaid managed care law and regulations. We work to manage enrollment, changes in ownership and certification issues, licensing and Joint Commission responses, and corrective action issues. We have lawyers skilled in reimbursement appeals and financial payment concerns arising with state and federal government payers as well as commercial payers. Changes in administration can create significant changes in the manner in which healthcare can be delivered and Medicare and Medicaid may be funded. Our Healthcare Public Policy team closely monitors emerging policies, advancing our clients’ interests on Capitol Hill with relevant healthcare agencies and with the then-current administration. We routinely assist clients in developing legislative and regulatory proposals and legislative language to help them effectively communicate; advocate on their behalf; develop strategies for advancing their goals; and manage the adverse impacts that healthcare legislation and regulation may have on their organizations. We also work with trade associations in partnering to advance their message.

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Our attorneys routinely work with clients to form new entities and ventures and to assist them with the negotiation and implementation of strategic transactions. We help clients respond to data breaches and other privacy matters, identify and advise on specific fraud and abuse risk areas, support their defense against enforcement investigations and proceedings, and develop and execute legislative and regulatory strategies, among many other tasks.We help hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and other medical providers grow through many different avenues, including facility acquisitions and leasing, financing arrangements, management contracts, affiliate agreements, and the creation of new relationships with relevant partners.&nbsp;Additionally, we counsel them on the full range of operational matters. We work with physician groups of all sizes to structure joint ventures and other relationships among physicians, physician groups, hospitals, specialty healthcare service providers and others in the industry.Our Healthcare Privacy team excels at addressing HIPAA issues and has provided timely and discreet advice to clients through more than 500 data breach responses, including responses to the three largest U.S. healthcare data breaches ever reported. We counsel healthcare providers and other covered entities on HIPAA and state privacy law compliance, breach response, crisis management, and regulatory investigations and audits. In this period of aggressive regulatory enforcement, our enforcement and compliance attorneys help keep our clients out of the headlines by proactively identifying and providing advice on their specific risk areas, including those related to the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws, the False Claims Act, HIPAA and the HITECH Act, EMTALA, licensing and certification matters, OSHA, and a wide range of coding and billing issues. Our team has substantial experience defending providers in all facets of audits and proceedings initiated by fiscal intermediaries, program integrity contractors, and federal and state governmental authorities, among many others.We have specialized healthcare reimbursement experience in Medicare and Medicaid program payment matters, having handled major reimbursement disputes in both Medicare and Medicaid graduate medical education (GME) and disproportionate share hospital (DSH) issues. We assist with a wide range of Medicare and Medicaid appeals and audits. We also represent hospitals and physicians in managed care negotiations and contracting and payment disputes, and we are experienced in Medicare and Medicaid managed care law and regulations. We work to manage enrollment, changes in ownership and certification issues, licensing and Joint Commission responses, and corrective action issues. We have lawyers skilled in reimbursement appeals and financial payment concerns arising with state and federal government payers as well as commercial payers. Changes in administration can create significant changes in the manner in which healthcare can be delivered and Medicare and Medicaid may be funded. Our Healthcare Public Policy team closely monitors emerging policies, advancing our clients’ interests on Capitol Hill with relevant healthcare agencies and with the then-current administration. 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<li>Healthcare: Highly Regarded ‒ USA – Nationwide (2021 to 2024)</li>
<li>Healthcare: Pharmaceutical/Medical Products Regulatory ‒ Washington, D.C. (2021 to 2024)</li>
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<li>The Legal 500 United States
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<li>Industry Focus – Healthcare: Service Providers (2018 to 2024)</li>
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<li>U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” – National Rankings
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