Practice Areas

Our firm’s health law practice includes the following areas and issues:

  • Compliance with state and federal regulations;
  • Healthcare transactions and contracting (e.g.,  joint venture, management, managed care, physician recruitment, computer, lease, employment, and services agreements);
  • Fraud and abuse compliance (i.e., pertaining to illegal remuneration, prohibited self-referrals, corporate practice of medicine, fee splitting, and OIG advisory opinions);
  • Serve as ADR neutral at arbitrations and mediations by and among hospitals, health care plans, physicians, physician groups, IPAs, third party payors, and other health care businesses;
  • Serve as hearing officer/arbitrator at peer review proceedings/fair hearings in hospitals, health plans and other managed care settings;
  • Medical staff and peer review (including counseling clients on matters pertaining to establishing and/or maintaining credentialing and peer review programs, and representing institutions and practitioners in credentialing and disciplinary matters);
  • Medicare and Medi-Cal reimbursement and third-party payor issues;
  • Sale and purchase of health care businesses and practices;
  • Utilization review and quality assurance;
  • Assisting health care providers to form and operate new  businesses;
  • Represent health care providers/institutions before regulatory agencies (including advocacy before in-state and out-of-state licensing and regulatory agencies, local government and the California Legislature);
  • Defend against practitioner exclusions and other discipline by Medicare and Medi-Cal Programs and state regulatory agencies;
  • Assist health care providers being investigated by federal and state health care regulatory agencies;
  • EMTALA defense;
  • Represent clients seeking to obtain provider status with private and governmental third party payors;
  • Medical record confidentiality (including HIPAA and CMIA) and informed consent;
  • Draft admission agreements, consent forms, and operational policies and procedures;
  • Facility licensure and accreditation;
  • Not-for-profit organizations/tax-exempt issues;
  • Civil and administrative litigation relating to disputes between health providers and between providers and regulatory agencies;
  • Prepare comprehensive liens for health care facilities to obtain recoveries on their patients’ claims against third-parties, and track such claims on behalf of clients.