Health Care

In the ever-changing climate of health care, the legal needs of clients are best served through a law firm that understands both where the industry has been and where it is going. The members of the Nelson Mullins Health Care Practice Group not only have insight into the business and regulatory developments determining health care trends, but routinely convert that understanding into tangible benefits for health care organizations and professionals.

This practice has assembled a diverse group of health care attorneys who are capable of providing a comprehensive array of client services. The partners in this group collectively have some 100 years of experience providing services to health care clients in corporate transactions, regulatory and governmental affairs, litigation, finance, and tax.

Some examples include:

• representing clients in federal and state investigations and civil actions concerning false claims, including "whistleblower" law suits
• negotiating mergers and acquisitions of hospitals, nursing facilities, ambulatory surgical centers, home health agencies, and physical therapy centers
• advising clients on certificate of need and licensing matters
• monitoring federal and state regulations and policies to advise clients on compliance
• advising clients concerning third-party payor claims, including Medicare and Medicaid
• forming, reorganizing and operating health care corporations and partnerships including provider networks, HMOs, PPOs, MSOs, IPSs, non-profit foundations, public charitable organizations, for-profit corporations, multi-institutional health care systems, multi-specialty groups and integrated delivery systems
• representing clients in financing and securities transactions including public partnership and stock offerings, tender offers, venture capital transactions, and disclosure compliance with federal and state securities law
• acting as borrower’s and underwriter’s counsel in hospital bond issues
• structuring joint-venture syndications and partnerships involving health-related businesses
• providing counsel on qualified and non-qualified profit-sharing, pension and other retirements plans and employee benefit tax matters
• advising on antitrust issues including the implications of mergers and acquisitions (including Hart-Scott-Rodino compliance), exclusionary practices, concerted practices, exclusive contracting and price agreements
• appealing and litigating tax matters including for-profit and non-profit tax issues, tax exemption issues associated with medical foundations, joint ventures, physician recruitment, IRS letter rulings, income and property taxation and exemptions, as well as tax audits
• litigating regulatory agency disputes, medical staff privilege disputes, physician contract disputes, third-party payor disputes, management contract disputes, collections, construction contract actions, wrongful termination of employment and malpractice defense