Healthcare

It is an understatement to say that the legal environment for healthcare is dynamic and complex. New laws and rules that affect healthcare appear daily and come from a variety of sources, including Congress, state legislatures, federal agencies such as the Health Care Financing Administration and the Office of the Inspector General, and state agencies, particularly agencies which regulate insurance. Not only are healthcare laws and rules dynamic, the relationships among physicians, pharmacists, patients, hospitals, Pharmacy Benefits Managers ("PBMs"), Health Management Organizations ("HMOs"), and insurers are constantly evolving. The solo physician or pharmacist, and small physician groups and pharmacies, are becoming increasingly rare. The relationships among physicians in large groups is becoming more complex. The relationships between physician groups, pharmacies, hospitals and third party payers not only affect those parties, but also affect patients and taxpayers.

Lawyers in the firm's Healthcare Practice Group come from a variety of legal subspecialties, such as insurance regulation, lobbying, government relations, corporate law, employer/employee relations, tax, ERISA, finance and administrative law. The firm's healthcare clients include individual physicians, physician groups, pharmacists and pharmacies, PBMs and managed care providers, nursing home and assisted living providers, and residency programs. The focus of the Healthcare Practice Group is on the client's particular legal needs within the context of the larger healthcare legal environment. It is the Healthcare Group's awareness of that larger environment that helps the firm's Healthcare clients to be successful in that environment.