Health Law
Our mission is to provide the highest quality legal services, with special attention to clients' needs and time constraints while always ensuring that their business objectives are met. We understand the challenges facing health care clients today and are committed to helping them navigate through these issues.Robinson & Cole's Health Law Group consists of a team of experienced health care attorneys trained to advise clients on meeting business objectives within the confines of a complicated legal and regulatory environment. Each member of the Health Law Group understands the urgency of our clients' issues, the complexity of an evolving health care environment, and the challenges of competition, regulation, and resource allocation. We are focused on providing practical and responsive counsel to our clients. We represent the spectrum of health care clients, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, provider networks, durable medical equipment suppliers, ambulatory surgical centers, physicians and other individual providers, home health care agencies, clinics, and outpatient facilities.
Health Industry/Legal Strength
Our extensive health law experience allows us to provide creative, sophisticated, and practical solutions to the problems facing a diverse health care community. We are sensitive to the impact that health industry dynamics have on our clients' decision making. Our team comprises one of the state's largest core groups of focused health law attorneys, supported by attorneys from the firm's corporate, finance, tax, tax-exempt organizations, emerging technologies, intellectual property, litigation, immigration, labor and employment, benefits, and real property practice areas. Robinson & Cole's Government Relations Group is also known throughout the region for its understanding of the issues facing health care entities.
Our commitment is to provide legal services in a prompt and efficient manner, tailored to our clients' needs. With this commitment in mind, we have implemented an answering service that is available 24 hours per day, seven days per week, to ensure that urgent health law needs are met beyond regular business hours. Furthermore, at Robinson & Cole, we recognize that knowing our clients and their staffs is essential to providing quality legal services. We are committed to knowing and understanding the people who are integral to our clients' needs.
Our Health Law Group publishes the Health Law Pulse, a periodic newsletter containing health law updates and other pertinent information that affects health care businesses.
We also have a Health Law Training Institute that provides training and education on relevant health law issues to health care providers and facilities.
Robinson & Cole's health lawyers have the experience to represent health industry clients in matters that involve the following:
- Administrative proceedings
- Antitrust counseling
- Certificates of need
- Compliance plans
- Contract preparation, negotiation, and review
- Corporate counseling and governance
- Corporate formation, joint ventures, affiliations, and restructuring
- Employment contracts
- Executive compensation and intermediate sanctions
- Fraud and abuse counseling
- HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)
- Immigration
- Managed care
- Medical staff issues, including physician credentialing and disciplinary proceedings
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Physician compensation
- Physician recruitment
- Policy drafting and review
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk management
- Tax and tax exemption
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