The healthcare industry continues to face unprecedented innovation as regulatory complexity, rate pressure and patient demands keep evolving. These accelerated structural and operational challenges require clients to examine their capabilities and processes and develop a commitment to drive transformative growth while maintaining ongoing compliance.  Working together, we help organizations build tomorrow’s healthcare ecosystem by creating skillful models to mitigate risk and address the myriad challenges that are top of mind for healthcare executives across geographies, including:

• ACO, CIN, MSO, PHO formation and operation
• Compliance program structure
• Corporate practice of medicine, dentistry and veterinary compliance (including fee-splitting rules)
• Fraud and abuse compliance (including anti-kickback and Stark law reforms)
• Internal governance
• HIPAA, 42 C.F.R. Part 2 and state-level privacy compliance
• Management services arrangements
• No Surprises Act, Hospital Transparency Act and other transparency law compliance
• Medicare & Medicaid regulations
• Physician practice organization and management
• Scope of practice, licensure and supervision requirements for mid-level providers, nurses, and medical assistants in hospital, urgent care and post-acute care settings.

Technology trends in today’s digital world can be both an organization’s greatest asset as well as vulnerability. It is only by fully understanding the technology that underpins many of the privacy opportunities and challenges that we help healthcare companies address their full suite of privacy needs.

Our team assists clients navigate the intersection of complicated global and US laws that uniquely apply to health care and life sciences organizations, such as the EU and UK GDPR, the CCPA/CPRA and other emerging US state laws, as well as HIPAA, 42 C.F.R. Part 2 and state-level privacy laws.

Having a world-class incident response practice helps you navigate major security incidents and data breaches, such as ransomware. We help you identify and remediate gaps in readiness and train executives on how to respond to breaches effectively.

With healthcare policy top of mind for policymakers, you need a full-service firm that uses turn-key government strategy and regulatory solutions regarding federal healthcare policies for transformative growth. We have experience in:

• legislative drafting and analysis;
• development of regulatory strategies;
• identifying and securing federal funding; and
• policy forecasting that helps healthcare participants sharpen their focus on innovative business plan development.

Our bipartisan team includes many former senior government officials, including assistant U.S. attorneys and chief counsels of congressional committees.

This collaborative team provides us with a wide variety of established strong working legislative, state and congressional relationships with key healthcare decision-makers on Capitol Hill.

From single-asset deals to large scale portfolios, our global Real Estate Healthcare Team delivers dynamic client service, and practical, business-oriented advice on the full range of healthcare transactions.

Owners, operators, developers, managers, REITs, institutional investors, public sector bodies, and other health industry organizations rely on our strong understanding of the key issues to anticipate and avoid potential hazards.

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We combine global coverage with local knowledge of markets and regulatory regimes. This means we provide commercially-focused, full-service competition and regulatory counsel to help you identify — and avoid — potential competition issues before they become problems.

However, when concerns do arise, we are well-equipped to offer innovative, efficient, and effective solutions to help you assess your options and develop a strategy to minimize your risks. We are continually recognized for our work, and Global Competition Review has named us “one of the world’s leading competition practices”. 

We offer advice on day-to-day employment matters to high-stakes litigation and transactional support.

Our team spans 21 offices in the U.S., UK, Dubai, France, and Germany, as well as a strong presence and extensive experience advising in Asia.

We have a strong track record of advising healthcare industry participants across these jurisdictions in common employment issues such as:

• policies
• training and benefits
• safeguarding of trade secrets
• enforcement of non-competes
• physician employment and affiliations
• equity incentive arrangements
• physician employment; and
• affiliations.

Healthcare enforcement continues to be a top priority world-wide.  We ensure that your interests are protected today and are prepared to withstand regulatory scrutiny tomorrow. From domestic courts to specialist tribunals and  international arbitration, we are known for our experience in handling multijurisdictional matters in all areas, including:

• Acute-care violations
• Class actions
• Commercial litigation and civil disputes
• Contract disputes
• Disputes with third-party payors
• Enforcement actions
• Insurance coverage disputes
• Internal and criminal investigations
• Labor and employment disputes, Non-compete litigation
• Government investigations
• False Claims Act Medical malpractice defense and non-medical personal injury defense
• Physician termination disputes
• Qui tam (whistleblower)
• White collar criminal litigation, including alleged Antikickback, Stark law and False Claims Act violations

We work in concert with all types of healthcare organizations to develop tailored strategies to drive business and maximize goals through: 

• Corporate research and marketing partnerships
• Due diligence
• Financings and reorganizations
• Joint ventures, combinations and strategic alliances, including management arrangement and other innovative alignments
• M&A, including multistate roll-ups and dispositions
• Private equity and venture capital
• Review, negotiation and preparation of agreements
• Structuring review and guidance related to fraud and abuse and corporate practice of medicine compliance.