The health care industry is complex and heavily regulated, demanding skilled legal advocates who are highly experienced in the many issues affecting modern health care organizations.
Thompson Coburn’s Health Care team provides business-focused and solution-oriented legal services. We take a methodical approach that ensures we ask the critical questions to craft solutions tailored to the specific needs of each client.
Our Health Care team excels in managing the sophisticated transactions, complicated regulatory and compliance issues, and high-stakes litigation for hospitals and health systems, health plans, group purchasing organizations, physician groups, and other health care entities. Our lawyers have a broad industry perspective and a targeted focus on finding practical solutions that align with client goals.
sophisticated transactions
We guide clients through a variety of transactions within the health care industry including mergers, acquisitions and affiliations; joint ventures; hospital-based and other physician services agreements; value-based care arrangements; managed care agreements; technology agreements; group purchasing agreements; and clinical trial agreements. Our team helps clients to navigate the intricate contractual and regulatory issues involved in these transactions, seeing that all arrangements are structured to meet our clients’ goals and comply with relevant laws.
regulatory compliance
The complex web of government regulations in this sector can be daunting, but our team regularly counsels health care entities through these challenges, helping them to resolve compliance concerns. Our services include in-depth guidance on regulatory concerns including Stark and Anti-kickback laws, False Claims Act, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, and EMTALA. We also assist providers with structuring and managing internal compliance programs and investigations, government investigations, and self-disclosures. Our lawyers have significant experience in HIPAA and data privacy and security compliance and assisting clients with incident responses.
high-stakes litigation
When it comes to high-stakes lawsuits, our skilled litigators are ready to represent health systems, hospitals, and health care providers in a range of matters before federal and state courts or in arbitrations involving managed care reimbursement disputes, state prompt pay statutes, ERISA, and False Claims Act. Due to our extensive experience litigating on behalf of health care systems and providers and based upon our deep health-care-transactional-attorney bench, our litigators uniquely know and understand the industry and the health care business landscape in a way that allows them to handle any dispute. We also represent clients facing investigations before government enforcement agencies including the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, state attorneys general, the Office of Civil Rights, and others.
Every client is important to us, no matter its size or point in its life cycle. We want to understand your business and your specific long-term goals, which we are invested in helping you achieve.
Our approach is holistic. Practicing law today requires knowledge of your industry and markets. We take the time to get to know you to be a true partner.
We work with clients of all sizes, from startups to well-established, large multinational corporations, addressing their needs efficiently and cost-effectively.
We protect our clients, positioning them in the best possible way to operate their business.
