Consider us the 911 for health care providers. Today, health care providers assemble experts from a variety of medical specialties to give their patients the best possible care. At Underberg & Kessler, we do the same thing in providing legal representation to our health care clients. Whether they're doctors, insurers, hospitals, or nursing homes, our clients turn to us for everything from day-to-day legal matters, to assistance with large projects, to malpractice litigation.
Managed care. Malpractice. Professional ethics. Electronic medical records and other emerging medical technologies. Building new medical facilities. These are just a few of the issues facing the health care profession today. Encompassing social, medical, financial and ethical considerations, health care issues require diverse legal expertise, and the ability to solve complicated problems, often with many stakeholders.
Underberg & Kessler’s health care group offers the broad range of legal services required by nursing homes, physicians and other health care providers including:
For Physician and Dentist Clients
- Employment agreements/disputes
- Corporate compliance programs
- Entity organizational matters
- Assistance in audit reviews
- Credentialing/privileges
- Risk management/patient issues
- Buy-sell arrangements and succession planning
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Malpractice defense
- OPMC defense
- OPD defense
- Real estate leases and new building developments
- Employment law advice
- Medical record confidentiality matters
- Contract drafting and review
For Long-Term Care Clients
- Regulatory compliance
- Corporate compliance programs
- Entity organizational matters and corporate governance
- Risk management/patient issues
- Real estate development and financing (commercial and tax exempt)
- Malpractice and negligence defense
- Employment law advice
- Medical record confidentiality matters
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