Health Care

Our health care practice is one of the most developed, full-service health care practices in the United States, combining extensive corporate, securities, merger and acquisition and regulatory compliance skills with one of the most credentialed health policy and legislative practices in the country.  Our health care practice draws on 60 years of experience and the expertise of over 100 lawyers, including a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a former counsel to the Senate Finance Committee during the adoption of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, a former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, a former FDA Associate Commissioner and a former CMS liaison to the White House and Congress.

EXPERIENCE

Our experience encompasses areas of keen importance to the health care industry:
Corporate
Regulatory Compliance
Legislative & Public Policy
Food, Drug & Device/FDA

DIVERSE CLIENTS

Our health care practice serves a very broad range of clients, including academic medical centers, national and regional hospital and health systems (profit and nonprofit) and many other health care businesses, such as medical equipment and supply distributors, medical systems providers, dialysis companies, home health providers, diagnostic imaging businesses, medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies.  Our clients also include medical trade associations, health information technology companies, clearinghouses, health plans and insurers, and financial advisors and equity sponsors for the health industry.

SIGNATURE STRENGTH

The signature strength of our health care practice is our ability to master complex representations that draw on the coordinated expertise of the many areas of our firm focused on the health care industry, such as regulatory, compliance, public policy, FDA, privacy and security, transactional, biotechnology, government investigations, information technology, antitrust, tax exemption issues, managed care and medical products litigation.  Because of the breadth of our client base and the depth of our experience in every facet of the health care industry, we offer our clients a thorough understanding of and feasible solutions for their legal issues.