Healthcare providers require legal counsel who can deliver expert guidance on a complex, rapidly changing regulatory framework. Our healthcare team has decades of experience representing health care professionals, facilities, and ancillary providers. We are committed to being your go-to advisor on what is occurring in the industry at any given time.
We understand you have a business to run, and we work to minimize the distraction that comes with surveys, investigations, compliance plan creation and implementation, security breaches, and facility and provider operations. We anticipate problems and proactively develop solutions to ensure the continuity of your business.

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In addition to establishing your organization’s compliance framework, we will be your guide on the road to innovation. We stay abreast of the rapid changes in health care laws and rules, ensuring that you can structure businesses appropriately, make organizational and regulatory adjustments when required, and maximize opportunities for your investors to achieve a good return on their investment.

Our attorneys address all regulatory aspects of a healthcare organization’s lifecycle: business formation, risk mitigation and ongoing compliance issues, and winding up or selling a business. Our expertise includes the following:

• HIPAA privacy and security issues
• Medicare and Medicaid compliance
• Commercial payor compliance
• Texas facilities and providers rules compliance
• Anti-Kickback and Self-Referral (Stark) Law
• Compliance plan, policies, and procedures creation, administration, and revision
• Corporate Integrity Agreements
• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Matters
• EKRA
• Federal False Claims Act
• Fair Market Value Compensation
• Fraud Investigations
• Billing Compliance
• Telemedicine
• Provider employment agreements
• Telemedicine
• Medical Practice set-up and divestiture

Representative clients include the following:
• Hospitals and health care systems
• Physicians
• Ambulatory Surgery Centers
• Laboratories
• Pharmacies
• DME providers
• Freestanding emergency Centers
• Management Service organizations
• Midlevel Providers (nurse practitioners and physical therapists)
• Healthcare marketing companies
• Physical Therapists and Chiropractors