Our
Practice
For years the firm has been recognized as the region’s leading
medical malpractice law firm defending healthcare providers. To
compliment the defense practice, we have a full service business
practice for healthcare entities including:
Business
Structure & Organization
Establish start-up professional corporations, nonprofit corporations,
limited liability companies, joint ventures and other partnerships;
Retirement Plans & Employee Benefits
Design, implementation and maintenance of retirement plans and
other employee benefit plans;
Compliance Plans
Development and implementation of compliance plans addressing
issues such as the processing of patient medical information and
billing for services rendered to enrollees of federal and state
healthcare programs, HMOs and insurance companies;
Service Agreements
Negotiate on behalf of physicians, hospitals and other providers
of service agreements with HMOs and insurance companies;
Licensing
Physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers
and facilities;
Anti-Kickback
& Stark Counseling
Advice concerning the federal and state anti-kickback and Stark
anti-referral statutes and regulations and antitrust laws.
Our
Strength
The Healthcare group includes lawyers with decades of experience representing healthcare providers
and service companies, managing hospitals and outpatient
facilities and developing and managing physician and hospital
owned managed care organizations.
The
group’s lawyers are well supported by other Sulloway lawyers
specializing in employment law, tax, trusts and estates, real
property and business litigation issues.
Our
Success
We
are recognized as aggressive advocates for our physician
and hospital clients, and we have achieved success in organizing
large practice groups, networks of provider groups and physician/hospital
joint ventures; developing outpatient ancillary service facilities;
representing providers negotiating contracts with HMOs; and
assisting providers in resolving issues of alleged fraud
and abuse with government enforcement agencies. We have broad
and complementary experience which has enabled us to address
a wide array of business and legal issues presented to our
healthcare clients.