Experience
Our wide-ranging client base includes a number of Fortune 500 companies, including:
- health care providers of all types;
- medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers;
- hospitals and nursing homes;
- companies specializing in medical information technology, e-health and biotechnology;
- academic medical centers;
- industry trade associations;
- clinical laboratory companies;
- health plans;
- managed care companies;
- pharmacy benefit managers;
- medical billing and clearinghouse companies;
- physician groups; and
- investment banks, private equity firms and other institutions that finance the health care industry.
Accolades
Consistently ranked by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Alston & Bird’s health care practice “has a truly national scope,” offering “top-quality representation on the most sophisticated matters.”
Bringing Value to Our Clients
A major advantage Alston & Bird offers clients is our ability to work effectively with federal, state and local regulators. Our attorneys are recognized leaders and bring a unique and practical results-oriented perspective to client issues.
Our health care attorneys include:
- the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS);
- a former U.S. Senator who was the longest serving Republican Senate Leader in the history of the United States;
- a former health policy advisor and counsel to the Senate Finance Committee;
- a former associate commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;
- a former associate chief counsel for medical devices and for enforcement at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;
- four lawyers listed by The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of health law;
- One lawyer ranked among the top 10 litigators in the country by The National Law Journal;
- two former in-house hospital counsel and one former physician practice in-house counsel;
- one attorney who is a certified procedural coder;
- two former U.S. attorneys and a number of former assistant U.S. attorneys;
- the immediate past chair of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section;
- the current co-chair of the American Bar Association Food and Drug Administration Committee;
- two current vice chairs of practice groups of the American Health Lawyers Association;
- a past chair of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Health Care Committee;
- a past chair of the State Bar of Georgia’s Health Care Section;
- three past presidents of the Georgia Academy of Health Care Attorneys;
- a past president of the American Counsel Association;
- the chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Annual Program on Antitrust Issues in Health Care;
- the vice-chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Annual Hospital Law Institute;
- a former member of the board of directors of the American Health Lawyers Association; and
- the author of one of the nation’s first books on health care credentialing and peer review.