The practice of Health Care Law in all likelihood is going to include an extensive assortment of legal services due to the fact that health care law is a rapidly growing and highly regulated industry. The following is just a few of the services that may be provided to clients in the health care industry:

• Transactions such as mergers and acquisitions of hospitals and health care companies; forming and implementing accountable care organizations; designing and negotiating physician-hospital alignment arrangements; and joint ventures and partnerships among health care providers and with health plans.
• Financing and restructurings, including capital access, venture capital/private equity investments and partnerships, and bankruptcies.
• Defending and managing audits and investigations of potential Codey and Anti-Kickback, Stark Law or other fraud and abuse violations; advising on self-disclosures; and negotiation of settlements and corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) with government agencies.
• Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, including general counseling, appeals, and updates on new developments.
• Advising on complex compliance issues and on compliance plans and procedures including the negotiating of fee agreements with insurance carriers for both in and out of network services.
• Managed care contracting, litigation, and design of new reimbursement and risk-sharing models.
• Privacy and security compliance, including counseling clients on HIPAA and HITECH Red Flag rules; designing compliance policies and procedures; internal compliance audits; responding to OCR investigations; monetizing health data; and managing and reporting data breaches.
• Corporate, regulatory, and strategic counseling issues, such as corporate structure, new business models, governance, licensure, certification and accreditation, and medical staff structures.
• Health care business negotiations and dispute resolution.

The client base in the health law practice is diverse and wide-ranging:

• Institutional health care providers, such as academic and community hospitals and health systems.
• Large physician groups, ambulatory surgery center and hospital developers, and ancillary service providers.
• Venture capital and private equity groups with health care funds and portfolio companies.
• Physician practice and health service management companies.
• Health care facility developers.
• Health insurers, reinsurers, and employer-sponsored health plans.
• Medical transportation companies.
• National provider and trade associations.