Practice overview
Clark Hill health care attorneys have experience representing clients in all aspects of the health care industry - with a practice that dates back to the emergence of heath care law as a separate legal specialty. Our health care clients include inpatient and outpatient health care and mental health care providers, licensed health care and mental health care practitioners, third-party payors and managed care organizations. The core principle of our practice is legal expertise and experience must always be applied with a focus on our clients' goals, and we partner with our clients to achieve those goals.
Although health care law encompasses a vast scope of legal issues, a sample of the areas in which our health care attorneys have extensive experience are as follows:
- Formation of joint ventures, physician organizations, and other forms of business combinations
- Planning for and compliance with Medicare and third party payor reimbursement regulations
- Licensure and certificates of need
- Medical staff
- Managed care
- Patient care
- Professional liability insurance
- Policies and procedures for health care issues
- Medical malpractice defense
- HIPAA compliance
- Drafting and proposing new laws and regulations affecting the health care industry
Our health care attorneys are also able to access the expertise of other members of the firm to assist our clients in such matters as antitrust compliance, real estate acquisition, employee relations, employee benefits, nonprofit tax issues, business and tax planning, estate and retirement planning, and general contract review and negotiation.
Our approach to legal representation of health care clients is the same as that for all of Clark Hill clients. We seek to add value to our clients' business, and to do this, we are uncompromising in our work to gain a knowledge of our clients' industry or profession. We are also conscious of the cost and competitive pressures that our clients are under, and adopt an approach that will achieve the results our clients desire.
Our health care attorneys use this approach in every matter we undertake, whether it be an acquisition or expansion of business of a health care institution, the formation of new and innovative health care groups, or advising individual physicians as to estate planning matters.
Some of the recent health care matters we have worked on are:
- Establishment of a network of mental health care providers to provide managed mental health care on a regional basis.
- Advice to large physician organizations and physician associations regarding litigation to assert rights against major third-party payor in managed care contracts.
- Successful negotiation and drafting of contract for joint venture to provide turnkey computer and information technologies services to a large hospital chain.
- Advice and drafting of legislative proposals to effectuate medical malpractice liability reforms.
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