The firm provides legal services to hospitals, physicians, and other health care institutions and practitioners on a wide variety of matters. These include certificate of need and facility licensure concerns; medical staff privileges and corrective action; professional licensing and investigations by licensing agencies; physician recruitment and retention, managed care; alternate health care delivery systems; medical group practices, provider networks, professional corporations and partnerships; joint ventures; Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse; state and federal self-referral ("Stark II"); compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; hospital-based physicians; patient care, risk management; employment and labor issues; reimbursement and insurance concerns; environmental issues; contract matters; and tax concerns.
