Robinson Bradshaw's health care practice group comprises an interdisciplinary team of attorneys with the broad range of experience required to advise participants in today’s complex health care environment. Our firm structure gives our health care clients seamless and cost-effective access to legal experience in all areas affecting the operation of their businesses, including corporate, tax, real estate and litigation. We call upon this experience to serve a diverse group of clients, including:
- Hospital and health systems, including private, nonprofit and governmental institutions
- Physicians and dentists, including physician groups and dental groups
- Pharmaceutical, pharma-contracting, and genomics companies
- Dialysis providers
- Home health agencies
- Long-term care facilities
- Medical device manufacturers
- Managed care organizations, including management service organizations (MSOs), physician practice management companies (PPMCs) and physician-hospital organizations (PHOs)
- Mental health agencies
- Insurance companies
- Private equity firms investing in the health care sector
- Investors, commercial lenders and underwriters in health care financing transactions
Some of the practice areas in which we regularly offer advice and counsel to our health care clients are:
- Antitrust counseling
- Corporate governance and compliance
- Credentialing and privileges
- Employee benefits and executive compensation
- Employment and labor
- Financing
- Fraud and abuse counseling and compliance
- HIPAA, privacy and security and EHRs
- Hospital/medical staff relationships
- Intellectual property and technology
- Joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions
- Licensure, accreditation and certificate of need
- Litigation, investigations and enforcement
- Long-term care facilities
- Managed care
- Physician group management and organization
- Real estate and construction
- Securities
- Tax advice for tax-exempt and for-profit entities
Our firm's life sciences practice group also serves our clients in the health care industry, with a particular emphasis on genetics and genomics companies, pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms, and clients who offer personalized health care services, medical diagnostics, and food and nutritional supplements. Lawyers in the life sciences group are dedicated to representing our life sciences clients at every stage of the company life cycle, including in core areas such as IP development, protection and maintenance, start-up and structuring, debt and equity capital raising (for both investors and companies), technology transfer and licensing, regulatory compliance, manufacturing and commercial contracts, and mergers and acquisitions.