Nearly 40 years of meeting clients’ business goals with creative and innovative solutions is what sets Waller Lansden apart in the healthcare industry. In many instances, our attorneys have developed ground-breaking solutions to complex problems that have become models in the healthcare industry.
Our attorneys are frequently asked a simple question by healthcare clients: Can we do this? In these situations, it is vision and commitment that truly distinguishes Waller Lansden as we guide our clients through the often challenging maze of healthcare regulations. With a deep roster of seasoned healthcare attorneys, Waller Lansden provides practical and innovative resolutions to the federal and state regulatory issues impacting both day-to-day operations and transactional matters.
Waller Lansden assists with the day-to-day regulatory issues encountered by investor-owned and not-for-profit healthcare facilities. Clients rely on Waller Lansden attorneys to help them remain up-to-date and fully compliant with the challenging regulatory demands of Medicare payment issues, Stark II, state and federal anti-kickback compliance along with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, Joint Commission standards and health information privacy rules. Our extensive experience ensures efficient and cost-effective representation in matters ranging from permitting and licensing to structuring contracts with physicians and the negotiation of managed care contracts. As trusted advisers for operations issues, our attorneys enable clients to focus their energy and effort on their primary mission: providing high quality patient care.
In transactional matters involving the sale or purchase of hospitals, outpatient facilities and senior living facilities, as well as structuring joint ventures and syndications, Waller Lansden’s healthcare team provides invaluable support to attorneys in our Corporate and Commercial Transactions and the Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups. Virtually every day, Waller Lansden attorneys provide clients with assistance in navigating the complexities of the federal fraud and abuse, anti-kickback and Stark Laws. Comprehensive and detailed knowledge of these regulations enable Waller Lansden to identify potential risk areas and streamline transactions.
In addition to the firm’s unmatched regulatory experience in operational and transactional matters, our attorneys have frequently been called upon to provide counsel in other highly regulated areas of the healthcare industry. Waller Lansden attorneys assist hospitals in the negotiation of clinical trial agreements for investigational drugs and devices. Our firm also has extensive experience preparing and filing Certificate of Need applications where they are required for the establishment of new healthcare or senior living facilities.
