Health Law
ShuffieldLowman’s Health Law Section offers a broad base of industry experience to serve the legal needs of health care providers and suppliers, including hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, home health care and hospice agencies, mental health and other clinic providers, long-term care facilities, physicians and physician groups, and suppliers of health care products, equipment and IT-related services.
Areas of experience include:
- Health regulatory matters, state and federal
- Structuring and development of health care programs and facilities
- Health care affiliations, joint ventures, and corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, venture capital and public financings
- Health information technology and privacy issues, including requirements imposed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
- Issues in health facility operations, bio-ethics and patient care
- Health care compliance, including compliance programs and defense of audits and investigations
- Bio-technology outsourcing agreements, licensing partnerships and intellectual property
- Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, grants and other payment and reimbursement matters
- Physician-hospital relationships, including medical staff and peer review
- Clinical research, health policy and legislation
- Representation of provider associations and networks
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