Regulatory Compliance

Alston & Bird’s health care regulatory compliance practice is devoted to helping clients negotiate the complex and challenging regulatory issues that confront all aspects of the health care industry every day. Our regulatory lawyers have extensive experience in dealing with the agencies that oversee health care, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Office of Inspector General of DHHS (OIG), as well as state agencies involved in health care oversight. 

EXPERIENCE 

Antitrust Clinical trials Compliance programs                 Contracts Transactional analysis EMTALA Fraud and abuse

Litigation Health facility compliance HIPAA, data security, data breaches Managed care Pharmaceutical and device Reimbursement Tax exemption

TEAM STRENGTH 

Our understanding of the intricacies of the health care system enable us to advise our clients on a broad spectrum of issues.  For example, we have assisted health care clients with Medicare coverage and reimbursement issues, fraud and abuse issues (e.g., the federal anti-kickback law, the Stark self-referral law and the False Claims Act), HIPAA privacy and security requirements, Medicare and Medicaid terminations and appeals, antitrust issues, the PhRMA and AdvaMed Codes, EMTALA, governmental investigations, research and clinical trials, health care facility compliance and accreditation, physician recruitment, state licensing and regulatory matters, medical staff relationships, biomedical waste and the whole range of administrative law matters affecting all types of health care entities.

RECOGNITION

The excellence of our regulatory compliance practice stems from the personal experience behind the lawyers who make up the team – the former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the current co-chair of the Food and Drug Committee of the American Bar Association, two current vice chairs of practice groups of the American Health Lawyers Association, a past member of the board of directors of the American Health Lawyers Association, and a member of the advisory board of BNA’s Plan and Provider Reporter. One of our attorneys served as the chair of the Health Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia and as president of the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys. Additionally, our team includes three lawyers who have served as in-house counsel, a registered medical technologist and a health claims procedural coder.

WHY ALSTON & BIRD?

Alston & Bird can offer a thorough understanding of legal issues that most firms cannot, due largely to the breadth of our experience with all of the participants in the health care field, including providers, payors and drug and device manufacturers. The depth of our experience in every facet of the health care industry makes Alston & Bird the ideal choice for outside legal counsel.