HEALTH CARE LAW

• Help health care providers prepare for, respond to and comply with New York State surveys. Our services include representation in matters related to enforcement proceedings.

• Represent nursing homes in all aspects of the collection process to improve the financial health of the facilities.

• Successfully appealed a New York State survey report to the Federal Health Care Financing Administration. The appeal resulted in a special federal survey that overturned the conclusions of the original New York State survey.

• Helped a nursing home complete bond issues to finance a new facility. Our services included representation on real estate matters related to the development of the facility.

• Risk management counseling following reportable/non-reportable incidents.

We provide general representation on all aspects of health care law to individual practitioners and groups of physicians and dentists, including:

• Establishment and operation of professional corporations, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships

• Establishment and administration of employee benefit plans

• Tax planning

• Assistance with the acquisition of medical technology and equipment

• Representation on reimbursement, licensing and credentialing issues

• Negotiation of capitated contracts with HMOs and other providers

• Representation of physicians with the Office of Professional Medical Conduct

• Development of corporate compliance plans

• Representation with insurer audits

• HIPAA compliance

• Medical records compliance

• Contract reviews including technology, electronic medical records, employment and leases

• Represented a group of employed physicians in purchasing a specialty practice from its founder/longtime owner.

• Successfully reversed a denial of coverage by a third-party payer to secure coverage for life-altering medical treatments for a young man whose insurance company had deemed the treatments experimental.

• Successfully defended a nursing home against multiple claims of neglect and abuse by the son of a resident whose records showed four years of exemplarily treatment by the facility and staff members.

• Successfully defended an alleged medical malpractice claim against a well-established internist by a patient who suffered a remote but serious side effect of a medication prescribed by him to treat a chronic and serious medical condition.

• Successfully defended a medical specialty group in a medical malpractice action alleging the late diagnosis of breast cancer.

• Successfully defended a hospital system in a medical malpractice action alleging medical negligence in the management of the delivery of an infant with fetal distress.