Health Care   | Health Care Speakers Bureau

 

Our health care practice group spans a broad spectrum of activities including the representation of hospitals, managed care entities, large multi-specialty provider groups, conventionally-sized single specialty groups, individual physicians, and related entities such as clinical laboratories and physical therapy providers.

 

Our services include:

 

  • Affiliations, mergers and acquisitions
  • Antitrust, unfair competition, and trade regulation
  • Asset protection
  • Certificate of need matters
  • Compliance plans and programs
  • Creditors' rights issues
  • Criminal
  • E-health, including Internet communications and Website agreements
  • FDA-related issues
  • Fair hearing procedures
  • Federal and state regulatory compliance
  • Fraud and abuse prevention
  • Health care financing
  • Health care policies and procedures
  • Hospital and medical staff bylaws
  • Insurance and risk management
  • Integrated delivery systems
  • Joint ventures
  • Licensure
  • Litigation, including complex professional and pharmaceutical drug litigation
  • Medical malpractice defense
  • Managed care contracting
  • Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and appeal
  • Physician-provider agreements
  • Practice formation and maintenance
  • Professional rights
  • Tax-exempt issues
  • Tax planning

 

In addition, we:

 

  • Assist hospitals and other institutional entities with federal and state regulatory compliance matters
  • Advise health care entities with regard to general institutional corporate matters including agreements with physicians and other providers
  • Represent hospitals in the acquisition of medical practices and the review of managed care agreements
  • Counsel physicians regarding the formation and maintenance of their practices
  • Assist with the procurement and structuring of financing for various types of medical business ventures

 

Recent changes in the health care profession have required us to counsel our clients in new areas. We now assist physician clients in complying with a more complex structure of federal and state regulatory requirements. Our Firm also counsels practitioners in their relationships with managed care and other healthcare entities. Our attorneys have assisted practitioners wishing to sell their practices to hospitals or other entities, and have also helped smaller practices merge into more significant entities in order to deal more successfully with managed care entities.

 

Our Firm has a well established reputation in the specialty of professional liability defense. We represent a number of insurance companies issuing professional liability insurance in the medical field. In Illinois, we represent the largest provider of professional liability insurance to physicians in the state. In addition, our Firm provides counseling and representation to a number of hospitals and provider networks which are self-insured.

 

We are equipped to provide assistance to our clients through the anticipated periods of change that lie ahead in the health care area.