Thriving Through Transformative Change
Our healthcare team – legal, legislative, regulatory and business pros – can help predict and respond to today’s most pressing challenges and opportunities facing anyone impacted by this multi-trillion dollar industry, including technology innovators, providers and suppliers.
Tier 1
Consistently Ranked Nationally, Health Care Law, U.S. News & World Report Best Law Firms
$20 Billion
Healthcare Transactions Managed
10+
Years Average Client Retention Rate
5/10
of Becker’s Hospital Review Top 10 largest hospitals and health systems in America are represented by Buchanan
We Offer Healthcare Clients
- Deep and broad healthcare industry experience across a spectrum of providers, including representing four of the top 10 largest for-profit U.S. health systems and many of the nation’s top not-for-profits.
- Transactional know-how – we’ve led 40+ major healthcare transactions valued at more than $20 billion.
- A powerful, multi-disciplinary bench skilled in handling bet-the-institution complex litigation.
- Road-tested corporate compliance programs and training, specially customized to address the unique issues of the healthcare industry.
- Significant experience on both sides of establishing an ACO – with providers establishing an ACO and with payors setting up their product. In fact, we assisted a major health system in establishing one of the first ACOs ever approved for participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program and continue to provide assistance as that ACO has reapplied for subsequent programs.
- Healthcare technology thought leadership, including software licensing agreements and telemedicine collaborations
- Long-standing relationships and robust experience in Federal, state and local government relations, legislative strategy and advocacy
- Experience with real estate deals that drive healthcare industry growth, from land use and zoning to financing.
- Game-changing facilities management ideas – like energy co-generation – to help you more effectively run your campus.
- Workforce management and labor relations know-how, including HIPAA compliance, employee rights, workplace safety, union negotiations and immigration law.
- Deep experience helping health-tech innovators – from entrepreneurs to large medical centers – to launch, advance and protect their intellectual property.
- Strong credentials including past leadership positions within CMS, state Medicare and Medicaid organizations, national health insurers and healthcare systems.
- Comprehensive experience representing rural healthcare providers – including sole community hospitals (SCH) and critical access hospitals (CAH) - with a dedication to the health of America’s smaller communities.
Healthcare Services
Related Healthcare Services
- ANTITRUST & TRADE REGULATION
- BANKRUPTCY & CREDITORS' RIGHTS
- CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY
- ENERGY
- IMMIGRATION
- INSURANCE & REINSURANCE
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
- LABOR & EMPLOYMENT
- LITIGATION
- MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
- POST-ACUTE & LONG-TERM CARE
- REAL ESTATE
- REIMBURSEMENT & MANAGED CARE
- WHITE COLLAR DEFENSE, COMPLIANCE & INVESTIGATIONS
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Healthcare Clients We Serve
- For-profit and not-for-profit hospitals and health systems
- Accountable Care Organizations and Clinically Integrated Networks
- Ambulatory surgery centers
- Post-acute, long-term care and assisted living, senior living, home health and hospice care facilities
- Behavioral health facilities and addiction treatment centers
- Health technology companies
- For-profit and not-for-profit dialysis companies
- Durable medical equipment companies
- Multi-state insurance companies
- Physician practices and faculty practice plans
Healthcare Services We Offer
- Transactions, entity formation, corporate reorganization, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and antitrust counseling
- Healthcare technology, artificial intelligence, telehealth, mobile apps
- Cybersecurity and data privacy, HIPAA, HITECH
- Regulatory compliance – Stark law, Anti-Kickback fraud and abuse, whistleblower claims
- Negotiation of managed care agreements and resolution of reimbursement disputes for alleged underpayments and/or overpayments
- Litigation, grand jury, OIG and Medicaid investigations, white-collar defense
- Medicare and Medicaid compliance
- Certificate of Need applications and appeals
- Medical staff proceedings and disciplinary issues
- Federal and state government relations lobbying, legislative strategy and advocacy
- Intellectual property, including patent procurement, patent office litigation, copyright and trademark
- Workforce management, including employee relations issues, safety, benefits, ERISA, labor relations and litigation
- Real estate, including healthcare campus expansion, permitting, zoning, regulatory compliance, eminent domain and all aspects of real estate finance
- Tax, including corporate, non-profit and real estate tax counseling and structuring of pass-through entities
- Complex immigration matters unique to healthcare including J-1 waivers, O-1 petitions, and other immigration matters specific to physicians and other healthcare workers.
- Challenges to non-profit health organizations’ tax-exempt status