With a dedicated team of healthcare attorneys, our firm provides robust legal counsel to hospitals and healthcare providers so that administrators and staff can focus on patient care and business growth. Known for our innovative and creative approach to solving the most complex issues in healthcare, we offer a depth of experience and insight that healthcare organizations desperately need as the healthcare industry continues to rapidly evolve.
Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman assists providers in balancing optimized patient care with increased healthcare costs, decreased federal and state funding to pay for healthcare expenses, and increased government regulation.
Our attorneys work closely with clients to meet complex operational challenges, safeguard patients and providers against fraud and abuse, and advise on regulatory compliance matters. We provide hospitals and health systems with guidance and advocacy that is backed by deep integrity and a keen understanding of the healthcare industry.
- Counseled and documented the acquisition of acute care hospitals both in and out of bankruptcy courts, involving workouts and operational turnarounds
- Favorably settled a contract dispute one day before trial on behalf of a national health system client, involving the unsuccessful purchase of five financially distressed nonprofit hospitals
- Represented hospital clients in complex federal and state FCA actions involving claims of alleged non-reimbursable, unnecessary, or inflated services and costs
- Defended 13 hospitals against hospital employee related allegations of false Medicare claims for inpatient admissions
- Counseled healthcare system clients regarding HIPAA, state health information privacy laws, and the development of privacy compliance programs
- Served as lead transactional counsel for several large hospital purchase and sale transactions in CA and throughout the U.S.
- Counseled medical staff clients regarding revised policies and bylaws, disciplinary action procedures, professional liability, and risk management
- Assisted CA hospitals in evaluating, negotiating, and drafting physician agreements, including professional services agreements, administrative services agreements, call coverage, and hospital-based agreements
- Investigated healthcare compliance deficiencies and provided improved compliance program recommendations for a hospital system
- Advised a large nonprofit hospital corporation during a Stark Law review and self-disclosure of over 2,000 physician compensation arrangements, including significant written analysis of healthcare fraud and abuse issues and self-disclosure documents
