The legal issues surrounding the health care industry are complex. At Cline Williams, our Health Care practice group counsels health care entities and professionals in virtually all legal issues that could impact them. As a result, we serve a wide variety of health care clients including for-profit and non-profit, tax-exempt health care entities, acute care general and rehabilitation hospitals, critical access hospitals, individual physicians, small and large physician practices, nurses, mental health providers, health professional organizations, imaging service providers, dialysis centers, ambulatory surgical centers, long-term care facilities, and assisted living facilities. We emphasize prevention, risk management and policy development to minimize potential problems or legal liability.
Our services reflect the broad spectrum of issues facing health care professionals and entities today and include:
- HIPAA privacy and security compliance
- Health care transactions
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Medical staff bylaws, medical staff credentialing and due process
- Medical malpractice defense
- Reimbursement
- Risk management
- Policy development
- Clinical ethics
- Patient rights
- Physician recruitment and contracts
- Defense of licensing investigations and complaints
- Health care fraud and false claims defense, civil and criminal
- Subpoenas and investigatory demands implicating patient privacy
- General health care compliance
- Exempt organizations
- EMTALA
- Anti-fraud and abuse
- Stark Law
- Lobbying and drafting of health care legislation
- Antitrust
- Guardianships, health care powers of attorney and living wills
