Healthcare

Due to the national focus on healthcare access, the changing role of managed care and the increasing enforcement initiatives by federal agencies, health law has become one of the most dynamic and expanding areas of the law.  The practice of health law requires familiarity with an increasingly diverse and complex array of substantive and regulatory matters as they relate to the delivery of healthcare services. Crowe & Dunlevy is able to address the changing needs of its healthcare clients by drawing upon the substantial experience of attorneys practicing in a variety of areas impacting the healthcare industry, in addition to those attorneys practicing health law on a substantially full-time basis. The Firm has established an active healthcare practice representing hospitals, physicians and physician groups, clinics, HMOs and other managed care groups, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, hospices, academic medical centers and other entities that provide healthcare services.  The types of health law services that the Firm provides to its clients in the healthcare area include the following:

• Organization and Operation of Healthcare Entities
• Physician Credentialing and Peer Review
• Compliance Plans and Fraud and Abuse Matters
• Joint Ventures
• Medical Staff Issues
• Medicare/Medicaid
• Regulatory/Administrative Law Matters
• Sales and Acquisitions of Healthcare Businesses
• Physician Contracting and Corporate Matters
• Finance
• Health Information and Patients' Rights Issues
• Managed Care
• Home Health Agencies
• Academic Medical Centers
• Taxation
• Employment Law Matters
• Intellectual Property
• Real Estate
• Antitrust Matters
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Reorganizations
• Long Term Care

The Chair of our Healthcare Law Practice Group, Karen S. Rieger, has more than 20 years experience in the healthcare area, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1991.  She speaks and writes extensively on health law topics, and has served as an adjunct professor of health law at the University of Oklahoma School of Law.  She is actively involved in healthcare organizations both on a state and national basis.