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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 providers, technology innovators and suppliers.
Our Healthcare section is routinely ranked as a Tier 1 National Health Care Law practice by Best Law Firms and has been ranked Band 1 in Pennsylvania by Chambers USA for the past 10 consecutive years.
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The Firm’s work highlights are often eye-catching, demonstrating its expertise in transactional healthcare matters as well as its capabilities in regulatory issues.”
Source: Chambers USA
We Offer Healthcare Clients
- Deep and broad healthcare industry experience across a spectrum of providers, including representation of 5 of the 10 largest hospitals and health systems in the U.S.
- Transactional know-how – we’ve led 40+ major healthcare transactions valued at more than $20 billion in just the past few years.
- A powerful, multi-disciplinary bench skilled in handling bet-the-institution litigation.
- Road-tested corporate compliance programs and training, specially customized to address the unique issues of the healthcare industry.
- Significant experience establishing an ACO. 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.
- Workforce management and labor relations know-how, including HIPAA compliance, employee rights, workplace safety, union negotiations and immigration law.
- Healthcare technology thought leadership, including software licensing agreements and telemedicine collaborations.
- Long-standing bi-partisan 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.
- 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. Our attorneys have also served as in-house counsel at major health systems, providing an insider’s view to the challenges faced by healthcare providers.
Healthcare Clients We Serve
- Academic medical centers, for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals and health systems
- Post-acute, long-term care and assisted living, senior living, home health and hospice care facilities
- Behavioral health providers and addiction treatment centers
- Physician practices and faculty practice plans
- Ambulatory surgery centers
- Accountable Care Organizations and Clinically Integrated Networks
- Health technology companies
- Non-profit organizations, including foundations, colleges and universities, and charitable organizations
Healthcare Services We Offer
- Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other combinations, along with related antitrust analysis and counseling.
- Entity formation, corporate reorganization, and corporate governance.
- Regulatory compliance – Stark law, Anti-Kickback, fraud and abuse, and whistleblower claims.
- Representation of healthcare providers in reimbursement disputes with public and private payors, billing and other internal investigations, and in connection with managed care contracting.
- Cybersecurity and data privacy, HIPAA, HITECH.
- Litigation, grand jury, OIG and Medicaid investigations, white-collar defense.
- Certificate of Need applications and appeals.
- Medical staff proceedings, licensure matters and disciplinary issues.
- Workforce management, including employee relations issues, safety, benefits, ERISA, labor relations and litigation.
- Federal and state government relations lobbying, legislative strategy and advocacy.
- 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; challenges to non-profit health organizations’ tax-exempt status.
- Complex immigration matters including J-1 waivers, O-1 petitions, and other immigration matters specific to physicians and other healthcare workers.
- Healthcare technology, artificial intelligence, telehealth, mobile apps.
- Intellectual property, including patent procurement, patent office litigation, copyright and trademark.
Firm-Wide Dedicated Healthcare Industry Group
Buchanan's Healthcare Industry Group is a dedicated team of professionals across a wide spectrum of our practice groups, all of whom spend a significant amount of time on matters involving the healthcare industry. This team includes attorneys from real estate, public finance, corporate finance, tax, intellectual property and employment, as well as federal and state government relations professionals. This collaboration creates a team of “go-to” specialists who know the industry intimately, speak the language, and can anticipate trends to plan for future challenges and opportunities.
As a result, we bring unparalleled credibility in our interactions with health system leadership and litigation witnesses; sensitivity to healthcare culture and hierarchy; and an understanding of the unique pressures facing the industry on a national and global scale.
