Healthcare
 

The healthcare practice at Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons integrates the talents and experience of litigation, transactional, and regulatory attorneys from a wide variety of backgrounds and legal disciplines. Our attorneys take a creative and practical approach to the complex legal problems confronting health care providers. With our understanding of the business operations of healthcare enterprises and the impact of advanced medical technology, we assist our clients in developing practical solutions that work within a regulated environment.

We represent a broad array of providers and ancillary health care businesses in matters that affect the organization, financing, and delivery of health services. Our clients include sole practitioners and individual entrepreneurs, large urban medical centers and small rural hospitals. Our attorneys also represent pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, healthcare web portals, managed care facilities, physician groups, and professional associations. We also offer risk management services to assist nonprofit healthcare organizations in the development or improvement of the organization's risk management system. Areas of practice in which we commonly work with healthcare organizations include:

  • Accreditation and Certification
  • Advance Directives and Patient Rights
  • Antitrust
  • Corporate Restructurings
  • Financing Transactions
  • Fraud and Abuse
  • Informed Consent
  • Joint Ventures
  • Employment and labor
  • Licensing
  • Medical malpractice defense
  • Managed contracting
  • Peer Review
  • Physican practice group incorporation
  • Regulatory & Governmental Compliance
  • Third-Party Reimbursement

ARTICLES AND ALERTS
Critical NLRB Decision Clarifies Who May Be a "Supervisor" Under the NLRA (12/01/2006 )
When it Comes to Health Care Decisions, Be Sure the Paperwork is in Order (11/01/2006 )
New COBRA Notice and Disclosure Requirements  (06/01/2004 )
COBRA and Domestic Partner Group Health Plan Coverage  (03/01/2004 )