COZEN O'CONNOR | The Confidence to Proceed

Overview

Our health law attorneys come from a variety of backgrounds and legal disciplines, and are experienced and well-respected national and regional health law practitioners. The chair of the Health Law Practice Group formerly served as deputy chief counsel to the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for all civil litigation and related regulatory matters under the Medicare and Medicaid programs nationally. Another health law attorney recently served as president of the Pennsylvania Society of Health Care Attorneys. Other health law attorneys have extensive experience in all types of transactional and regulatory matters and healthcare-related litigation.

SERVING A FULL RANGE OF HEALTHCARE CLIENTS

Clients include a full range of nonprofit and for-profit healthcare organizations, including:

  • Trade Associations
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Hospitals
  • Nursing Homes and Long-term-care Facilities
  • Hospital, Nursing Home and Pharmacy Trade Associations
  • Health Maintenance Organizations
  • Physician Practice Management Companies
  • Academic Healthcare Institutions
  • Individual Entrepreneurs
  • Home Healthcare Companies
  • Management Service Organizations
  • Pharmacies
  • Physician Groups and Practices
  • Banks, Financial Institutions and Others Involved in the Financing of Healthcare Enterprises

ADDRESSING ALL OF YOUR NEEDS

Specific areas of experience include:
  • Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings of hospitals and other healthcare organizations
  • Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party reimbursement issues
  • PRRB appeals and ALJ proceedings
  • Fraud and abuse and Federal False Claims Act issues
  • Compliance program development and related advice
  • Structuring and negotiating risk and reward sharing and other contractual arrangements with managed care organizations and other third-party payors and plan administrators
  • Developing integrated delivery systems
  • Litigation and arbitration of disputes involving third-party payors
  • Matters concerning certification of healthcare providers
  • Structuring and organizing relationships between hospitals and medical staff
  • Joint ventures for healthcare organizations
  • Physician practice group formation and operation
  • Development of physician practice management organizations
  • Identification and resolution of antitrust and nonprofit tax issues
  • Licensure issues
  • Long term care survey and certification /False Claims Act representation
  • Taxable and tax-exempt financing for assisted living facilities, hospitals and nursing homes
  • Healthcare bankruptcy issues
  • Executive and board-level counseling on fiduciary duty issues
  • Section 501(c)(3) issues
  • Privacy, confidentiality and other HIPAA-related compliance issues

SWIFT ACTION ACROSS THE COUNTRY

The firm’s health regulatory and litigation practice is national in scope. In addition, familiarity with federal and state regulatory agencies and their legal counsel often enables the firm to explore issues with agency staff and legal counsel in an informal and non-adversarial manner and to quickly and efficiently inform clients of current administrative agency positions.

GOING BEYOND HEALTHCARE

Because Cozen O’Connor is a full-service law firm, our health law attorneys have the ability to call upon other lawyers in the firm, particularly our business law, business litigation, and labor and employment attorneys, for consultation and advice in other critical areas, including securities, litigation, and tax matters. The use of interdisciplinary teams enables us to provide our healthcare clients with comprehensive services when the need arises.