Comprehensive Counsel
As a full service law firm, Lewis Rice has the capability to provide custom, comprehensive counsel beyond common health care issues. Legal services provided to our health care clients also include traditional corporate, real estate, tax, labor, and litigation matters specific to their needs and sometimes include the following:
- Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
- Corporate reorganizations and joint ventures
- Provider licensing and accreditation issues
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
- Health care vendor and service contracts
- Certificate-of-need issues
- HIPAA and privacy issues
- Health care policy and procedure development
- Medical consents, advance directives, and other issues of patient care
- Medical litigation
- Risk management issues peculiar to health care institutions
- Labor and employment issues including union organizing activities and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements
- Insurance issues concerning both the coverage of medical costs and protection against general comprehensive, professional, and D&O liabilities
- Administrative hearings before health care agencies
- Pension and compensation issues
- Formation of hospital-sponsored and physician-owned single- and multi-specialty physician group practices
- Tax-exempt bond financing
- Compliance with rules governing tax-exempt organizations
- Environmental issues affecting health care institutions
