Practices & Industries

Health Care

The complex laws and regulations applicable to the health care industry are constantly changing. We stay apprised of the latest developments in the law and the business operations of our clients. We understand the market dynamics and legal concerns shaping the business of our clients and are able to anticipate and quickly respond to our clients' legal needs.

Our attorneys have extensive experience in providing legal services to a wide range of health care clients such as hospitals and health systems, publicly traded health services companies, physician practices, home health, home care and hospice agencies, diagnostic clinics, ambulatory surgical facilities, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, disease treatment centers, clinical laboratories, sleep disorder centers and trade associations.

Practice Areas and Services

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Experience

Certificate of Need

  • Served as general counsel to a state association of health care providers with more than 600 members
  • Obtained favorable decisions in contested CON cases before the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the North Carolina Division of Facility Services
  • Obtained favorable decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court regarding the scope of certain development activities permissible under North Carolina's certificate of need law
  • Counseled and guided clients through the application process for CONs, enabling them to expand their health care facilities, build new hospitals and acquire state-of-the-art technology. Successfully represented clients in CON-related administrative appeals.


Employment Law

  • Successfully resolved religious discrimination lawsuit brought by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against a hospice home care agency.
  • Successfully resolved sexual harassment allegations brought against a doctor by a physician’s assistant. 
  • Defeated at the agency level age discrimination charges brought by a certified nursing assistant against a hospital.
  • Successfully resolved disability discrimination case brought by a nurse against a physicians practice.
  • Defeated in federal court the discrimination claims of a salesperson previously employed by a national provider of laboratory services. 


Financing, including bond financing, HUD and private equity

  • Represented the borrowing hospitals in connection with three separate FHA insured mortgage revenue bond transactions involving tax-exempt bonds in the total amount of $204,000,000


Hospital Governance

  • Prepared and delivered a presentation on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to a hospital governing board


Information Technology and Electronic Medical Records

  • Represented the winning bidder in the state's largest information technology procurement involving a $171 million contract to replace and operate the state's Medicaid claims processing system and service the technology needs of several other state agencies


Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures

  • Represented buyer of health services businesses in series of strategic "rollup" acquisitions
  • Represented hospital system in series of physician practice acquisitions and related development of integrated health care system
  • Represented constituents in physician practice merger transactions
  • Represented both hospitals and physicians in various ambulatory surgery and other health services joint ventures
  • Represented a nonprofit hospital system in connection with a “virtual” merger with a hospital authority, pursuant a joint operating agreement


Reimbursement, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare

  • Enjoined program changes announced by the state's Medicaid agency that would have seriously affected industry providers


Tax Exempt Hospitals and Health Systems

  • Obtained a letter ruling for a public, nonprofit hospital that it is not subject to the Form 990 filing requirements

Experience

Certificate of Need

  • Served as general counsel to a state association of health care providers with more than 600 members
  • Obtained favorable decisions in contested CON cases before the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the North Carolina Division of Facility Services
  • Obtained favorable decisions from the North Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court regarding the scope of certain development activities permissible under North Carolina's certificate of need law
  • Counseled and guided clients through the application process for CONs, enabling them to expand their health care facilities, build new hospitals and acquire state-of-the-art technology. Successfully represented clients in CON-related administrative appeals.


Employment Law

  • Successfully resolved religious discrimination lawsuit brought by Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against a hospice home care agency.
  • Successfully resolved sexual harassment allegations brought against a doctor by a physician’s assistant. 
  • Defeated at the agency level age discrimination charges brought by a certified nursing assistant against a hospital.
  • Successfully resolved disability discrimination case brought by a nurse against a physicians practice.
  • Defeated in federal court the discrimination claims of a salesperson previously employed by a national provider of laboratory services. 


Financing, including bond financing, HUD and private equity

  • Represented the borrowing hospitals in connection with three separate FHA insured mortgage revenue bond transactions involving tax-exempt bonds in the total amount of $204,000,000


Hospital Governance

  • Prepared and delivered a presentation on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to a hospital governing board


Information Technology and Electronic Medical Records

  • Represented the winning bidder in the state's largest information technology procurement involving a $171 million contract to replace and operate the state's Medicaid claims processing system and service the technology needs of several other state agencies


Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures

  • Represented buyer of health services businesses in series of strategic "rollup" acquisitions
  • Represented hospital system in series of physician practice acquisitions and related development of integrated health care system
  • Represented constituents in physician practice merger transactions
  • Represented both hospitals and physicians in various ambulatory surgery and other health services joint ventures
  • Represented a nonprofit hospital system in connection with a “virtual” merger with a hospital authority, pursuant a joint operating agreement


Reimbursement, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare

  • Enjoined program changes announced by the state's Medicaid agency that would have seriously affected industry providers


Tax Exempt Hospitals and Health Systems

  • Obtained a letter ruling for a public, nonprofit hospital that it is not subject to the Form 990 filing requirements
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