We represent clients before state certificate of need authorities and before state departments of public health in connection with threatened or actual license revocation actions. Assisting health industry clients to develop new sources of revenue is another aspect of our general health care industry law practice. We represent numerous practices in the area of ambulatory surgery development. We prepare contracts for health system-based physicians, revise relationships between health systems and physician practices, and participate in the development of physician recruitment strategies and the implementation of physician contracts which comply fully with the requirements of Medicare and the Internal Revenue Service. We also work with clients to deal effectively with impaired physicians and nurses in a manner which seeks treatment and retention of appropriate individuals.
Health care is a stringently regulated industry.
We work closely with our clients to ensure compliance with health care anti-fraud, labor, OSHA, environmental, and other regulatory matters, and have helped design internal corporate compliance programs. Our attorneys have extensive experience in analyzing and developing cost-effective acquisition and financing contracts for major construction programs, computer and other equipment acquisitions, and other significant projects. We also participate in negotiations for group purchasing plans. We have developed and implemented patient consent programs, policies concerning the release of medical records, treatment of minor patients, the handling of emergency patients, and programs to treat mentally ill or chemically dependent patients. The firm has also designed strategies for health industry clients to deal with patients in need of legal guardians, both for general treatment and specific emergency treatment circumstances typically involving objections based on religious convictions.