Healthcare

Healthcare & Life Sciences

FITZPATRICK LENTZ & BUBBA'S HEALTHCARE & LIFE SCIENCES TEAM IS COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE, PERSONAL SERVICE AND RESPONSIVENESS TO OUR CLIENTS WORKING IN THESE COMPLEX, HEAVILY REGULATED AND CONSTANTLY CHANGING SECTORS.

In both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, our healthcare and life science attorneys have experience in advising hospitals, health systems, ambulatory surgical facilities, assisted living facilities, physician groups, rehabilitation facilities, and home healthcare agencies, as well as medical device manufacturers, health information technology (HIT) businesses, and life science innovators. We also counsel solo practitioners and evolving areas of health, like mobile IV therapists, weight loss clinics, non-invasive medical aesthetics, and medical spas.

As a full-service law firm, we collaborate and consult with fellow attorneys in our corporate law, employment law, intellectual property, litigation & trial practice, mergers & acquisitions, and real estate law groups, ensuring your practice or organization’s legal needs are met. 

Our team remains up to date on local, state, and federal legislation governing the healthcare industry, enabling us to provide effective counsel in all facets of business.

OUR SERVICE AREAS

  • Real estate, land use, acquisition, and development
  • Restrictive covenant negotiation
  • Facility leasing agreements
  • Facility licensure, permitting & entitlement
  • Accreditation standards (e.g., The Joint Commission, Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, and National Committee for Quality Assurance)
  • Federal and state statutory and regulatory law, including the Health Care Quality Improvement Act, CMS, HIPAA, EMR, patient privacy, and state compliance audits
  • Stark, Anti-Kickback, False Claims Act, and other fraud and abuse laws
  • Hospital/physician relationships
  • Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party payor contracting, compliance and reimbursement
  • Accountable care organizations, medical homes, bundled payment and other alternative payment arrangements
  • Medical Marijuana Act and compliance
  • Agreements with managed care networks and third-party payers
  • Asset or stock purchase and sale transactions
  • Expert and medical device consulting agreements
  • Joint ventures
  • Management and professional services agreements
  • Office of Inspector General (OIG) exclusions
  • Buy/sell agreements
  • Succession planning
  • Negotiation of management & service organizations
  • Formation, dissolution and reorganization of medical and dental practices, home health care agencies and pharmacies
  • Federal/state regulatory compliance and licensure
  • Provider credentialing and insurance contract review
  • Negotiation of formation of JV entity relationship
  • Trade secret disputes and IP litigation
  • Copyrights
  • Policies, guidelines and service agreements > IP?
  • Service agreements
  • IP asset management, audits and due diligence
  • IP sales and transfers
  • Licensing and trademarks
  • Recruitment, retention and employment arrangements and agreements
  • Employment/independent contractor relationships
  • Discrimination and harassment claims
  • Workers’ compensation defense
  • Licensure
  • Patient satisfaction and safety
  • Practice of defensive medicine
  • Expert discovery
  • Administrative proceedings
  • Bankruptcy
  • Civil, commercial, shareholder and ownership disputes
  • Expert witness discovery
  • Medical staff disputes
  • Post-trial and appellate practice
  • Professional liability oversight counsel
  • Professional licensure inquiries and disputes

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

  • AROA
  • B. Braun
  • BioMed Sciences
  • EPGI (sold to LVHN)
  • Geisinger Medical Center
  • Grandview
  • Hospital Central Services (HCSC)
  • HoverTech
  • LVCIL
  • Mike Krupa
  • MillerKeystone Blood Center
  • Northeast Anesthesia Physicians
  • Northwood Surgery Center
  • Olympus
  • Phoebe Ministries
  • Precision Medical
  • Progressive Physician Associates
  • RadSearch, LLC
  • Rosenfeld VanWirt, P.C.
  • Signallamp Health (former client – sold in merger)
  • Spark Orthodontics
  • St. Luke’s University Hospital & Health Network

OUR Healthcare ATTORNEYS

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