The Health Care Group provides a vast array of health care services in the following areas:

• Antitrust
• Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement appeals and certification
• Compliance programs
• Fraud and abuse and false claims issues and investigations
• Integrated delivery systems and development of networks
• Facility licensure, accreditation, certification and health planning
• Managed care and other third party payer contracting
• General contracting
• Public law compliance for governmental hospitals and other governmental entities
• Mergers, affiliations and acquisitions
• General corporate issues
• PHO, MSO, and similar type arrangements
• Physician practice acquisitions
• Medical staff issues, including bylaws, credentialing, peer review, competency evaluation and disciplinary hearings
• General patient issues, including patient rights, consents, advanced directives, and COBRA anti-dumping provisions
• ERISA
• Insurance, including the development of captive insurance companies, provider controlled HMOs and PPOs, and other health insurance products
• State and federal regulatory issues
• Federal, state and local tax, including non-profit and charitable status issues
• Hospital capital financing, including tax-exempt bonds
• Environmental regulations and issues
• Labor and employment relations, including employment discrimination defense
• Litigation, including malpractice defense, vendor and employment contract disputes, and business tort disputes
• Privacy issues and cyberlaw application
• Software and intellectual property licensing