Overview
When our clients need guidance on regulatory compliance and government inquiries, business matters, or representation in litigation, hearings, and appeals, we work closely with them to anticipate issues and find solutions. We assist with matters related to governmental oversight, reimbursement, licensure, labor and employment, antitrust, governance, fraud and abuse, medical staff, privilege, physician-hospital disputes, and business transactions. We also provide counsel and representation in audits and investigations as well as confidentiality, privacy, security, and technology matters.
Serving many different types of individual and institutional health care providers nationwide, our clients include:
- Academic medical centers
- Adult and child daycare centers
- Ambulatory surgery facilities
- Assisted living residences
- Behavioral health and developmental disability providers
- Children, youth and family agencies
- Community homes for individuals with intellectual disabilities
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)
- Dialysis providers
- Drug/alcohol substance abuse treatment programs and facilities
- Governing bodies
- Home care and home health agencies
- Hospices
- Hospitals
- Health care systems
- Individual health care professionals
- Long term care nursing facilities
- Management companies
- Medical device and durable medical equipment manufacturers
- National and state trade associations
- Mental health facilities and agencies
- PACE/LIFE agencies
- Patient Safety Organizations
- Pediatric Extended Care Centers
- Personal care homes
- Pharmaceutical manufacturers
- Physician practice groups
- Practice management groups and billing companies
- Private equity/ health care management companies
- Psychiatric hospitals and residential programs
- Residential treatment facilities
- Retail and clinical pharmacies and pharmacy networks
- Telehealth/telemedicine providers
Health care legal issues can have many facets, and we apply a multidisciplinary approach to assist clients as efficiently and effectively as possible. Our attorneys know the industry, bringing health care-specific perspectives from multiple practice areas.
Our attorneys are thought leaders in their respective disciplines, both individually, and in collaboration with clients. They engage in public policy analysis to help clients understand new initiatives and to affect change, including in the legislative and regulatory arenas.
Regulatory
- Accreditation, licensure and certification
- Antitrust and trade regulation
- Anti-Kickback and False Claims
- Compliance
- Corporate governance
- Government investigation/audits
- Health information management
- HITECH, HIPPA security, privacy and breach counseling
- Hospital-physician relationships
- Internal investigations
- Labor and employment
- Managed care contracting
- Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers
- Office of Inspector General (OIG) exclusions
- Patient care and quality of care
- Voluntary disclosures
Litigation
- Administrative
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy
- Civil
- Class and collective-action
- Commercial
- Employment and employee relations
- Fiduciary duty
- Fraud and abuse, including defense of qui tam whistleblower suits
- Licensure
- Medical staff
- Post-trial and appellate
- Professional liability defense
- Wage and hour
- White collar defense
- Workers' compensation defense
Transactions
- Bankruptcy
- Business and corporate
- Change of ownership
- Consolidations
- Contract drafting and negotiation
- Financing
- Insurance
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Restructurings
- Stark analyses
Attorneys
Paula G. Sanders
Principal
Chair, Health Care Practice Group
Harrisburg
Phone: 717-612-6027
Fax: 717-731-1985
F. Traynor Beck
Principal
Chair, Corporate Practice Group
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1148
Fax: 215-587-1444
Brian W. Bisignani
Principal
Chair, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Practice Group
Lancaster
Phone: 717-612-6041
Fax: 717-291-1609
Kathleen Chancler
Principal
Professional Liability
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1007
Fax: 215-587-1444
James J. Kutz
Co-Chair, Appellate Department
Chair, Regulatory & Administrative Agency Law & Professional Licensure Practice Groups
Harrisburg
Phone: 717-612-6038
Fax: 717-731-1985
Ronald H. Levine
Senior Counsel
Internal Investigations & White Collar Defense
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1071
Fax: 215-587-1444
Abraham J. Rein
Principal & Chair, White Collar Practice Group
Chair, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1057
Fax: 215-587-1444
News & Insights
Paula G. Sanders
Principal
Chair, Health Care Practice Group
Harrisburg
Phone: 717-612-6027
Fax: 717-731-1985
F. Traynor Beck
Principal
Chair, Corporate Practice Group
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1148
Fax: 215-587-1444
Brian W. Bisignani
Principal
Chair, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Practice Group
Lancaster
Phone: 717-612-6041
Fax: 717-291-1609
Kathleen Chancler
Principal
Professional Liability
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1007
Fax: 215-587-1444
James J. Kutz
Co-Chair, Appellate Department
Chair, Regulatory & Administrative Agency Law & Professional Licensure Practice Groups
Harrisburg
Phone: 717-612-6038
Fax: 717-731-1985
Ronald H. Levine
Senior Counsel
Internal Investigations & White Collar Defense
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1071
Fax: 215-587-1444
Abraham J. Rein
Principal & Chair, White Collar Practice Group
Chair, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice
Philadelphia
Phone: 215-587-1057
Fax: 215-587-1444
Regulatory
- Accreditation, licensure and certification
- Antitrust and trade regulation
- Anti-Kickback and False Claims
- Compliance
- Corporate governance
- Government investigation/audits
- Health information management
- HITECH, HIPPA security, privacy and breach counseling
- Hospital-physician relationships
- Internal investigations
- Labor and employment
- Managed care contracting
- Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers
- Office of Inspector General (OIG) exclusions
- Patient care and quality of care
- Voluntary disclosures
Litigation
- Administrative
- Antitrust
- Bankruptcy
- Civil
- Class and collective-action
- Commercial
- Employment and employee relations
- Fiduciary duty
- Fraud and abuse, including defense of qui tam whistleblower suits
- Licensure
- Medical staff
- Post-trial and appellate
- Professional liability defense
- Wage and hour
- White collar defense
- Workers' compensation defense
Transactions
- Bankruptcy
- Business and corporate
- Change of ownership
- Consolidations
- Contract drafting and negotiation
- Financing
- Insurance
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Restructurings
- Stark analyses