Healthcare

A connected team for the complete scope of our healthcare client’s needs.

Healthcare organizations need a full-service firm to address their legal, regulatory and business needs

Healthcare issues rarely fit within a single legal category. Our Healthcare lawyers act as a hub, drawing on colleagues across the firm to address employment questions, corporate finance and governance, tax planning, commercial disputes, criminal exposure, real estate, intellectual property, cybersecurity and even the private wealth considerations that can follow the sale of a healthcare business. Clients value our broad-based knowledge, creativity and pragmatic approach, as well as relationships and perspective built through decades of work with healthcare organizations across Oklahoma and the region.

Who does our Healthcare Industry team represent?

Our clients include organizations based in Oklahoma and throughout the central United States, including healthcare businesses with multistate operations. We regularly advise clients throughout the healthcare industry including:

  • Hospitals, academic medical centers and physician-owned hospitals
  • Physician practices and individual licensed professionals
  • Skilled nursing and long-term care facilities, home health agencies and hospices
  • Organ procurement organizations
  • Ancillary service providers

What legal services do we provide to healthcare industry clients?

Clients often begin with one healthcare question and discover that the best answer requires experience from several areas of law. Acting as the central point of contact, our Healthcare Industry team assembles the right lawyers to provide coordinated support across matters such as:

  • Regulatory compliance and operations: facility and professional licensing, Medicare and Medicaid, reimbursement and payor disputes, credentialing, peer review, medical staff matters, patient rights, health information privacy and fraud and abuse compliance.
  • Transactions and enterprise planning: acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, contracts, governance, corporate finance, reorganizations, tax, real estate and private wealth planning for owners before and after a transaction.
  • Workforce and technology: employment counseling and disputes, cybersecurity and breach response, intellectual property and the evaluation and implementation of AI and other technology solutions.
  • Investigations and disputes: subpoenas, search warrants and inquiries involving CMS, the DEA, the DOJ and other agencies, licensing board matters, administrative hearings, commercial disputes, white collar concerns and healthcare litigation.

Because needs can change quickly, clients can continue working through a familiar healthcare contact while the team draws in additional capabilities as needed.

What distinguishes our approach to the healthcare industry?

Our lawyers combine broad-based legal knowledge with a longstanding connection to the region’s healthcare community, including decades of work with hospitals and other providers. We understand how healthcare organizations operate and maintain the relationships and institutional perspective needed to deliver pragmatic, responsive advice when clients are planning a transaction, adapting to reimbursement pressure, integrating new technology or responding to an investigator at the door. Above all, clients value having one connected team that can identify the issue, find the answer and remain alongside them as the matter evolves.

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