Health Care

Health care organizations compete in an environment marked by rising costs, shrinking reimbursement, increasing regulatory requirements, and intense compliance scrutiny. With a team of 25 attorneys focused on the health care sector, Nixon Peabody has the comprehensive resources health care clients need to successfully meet these challenges.

Our lawyers have extensive industry knowledge and experience and are aware of both current and emerging trends. We serve as outside general counsel to numerous hospitals and other health care businesses and providers and are frequently retained to serve as special counsel on particular projects, transactions, or issues. We provide counsel on:

  • Corporate matters
  • Regulatory matters, including licensing and certificates of need
  • Compliance counseling and government investigations
  • Reimbursement and payment systems
  • HIPAA regulations and compliance
  • Graduate medical education and residency accreditation
  • Other accreditation matters
  • Health care turnarounds
  • Medical research
  • Health information technology issues
  • FDA regulatory compliance
  • Discharge and financial planning and recovery
  • Physician/hospital and medical staff issues
  • Patient care and long-term care issues
  • Physician practice issues
  • Managed care contracting and network development
  • Pharmaceutical company marketing and promotion issues
  • Development and financing of capital projects

Nixon Peabody’s health care clients include:

  • Health and hospital systems
  • Academic medical centers and community hospitals
  • Physician/hospital organizations and independent practice associations (IPAs)
  • Physician groups
  • Regional health information organizations (RHIOs)
  • Nursing homes and assisted living facilities
  • Home health agencies
  • Hospices
  • Mobile diagnostic imaging companies
  • DME suppliers
  • Pharmaceutical companies
  • Health service management companies
  • Clinics and freestanding ambulatory surgery facilities
  • Psychiatric facilities
  • Rehabilitation facilities
  • Early intervention providers

Our Health Services Group draws on the skill and experience of more than 700 attorneys across the firm to provide targeted advice on areas of law that affect health care clients, including:

  • Antitrust
  • Charitable giving
  • Employee benefits and ERISA
  • Environmental
  • Financings
  • Health care litigation
  • Intellectual property
  • Tax, including not-for-profit and tax-exempt entities
  • Labor and employment
  • Government relations
  • Real estate
  • White collar crime
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