Health Care

At Burr & Forman, our capabilities include both business and trial needs for the health care industry, covering physician practices, hospitals, long-term care providers, surgery centers, and home health agencies, to medical device companies, pharmacies, and health care lenders. In such a complex and regulated environment, we practice preventative law by not only assisting clients with achieving their goals, but also avoiding unnecessary legal issues.

We assist our health care clients in a number of ways related to their businesses, including corporate formation, compliance, governance, mergers and acquisitions, taxation, and transactional needs. In addition, our health care team is experienced in assisting clients with certificate of need (CON) filings and proceedings.

Should litigation arise, our team understands the intricacies of representing health care clients in matters related to false claims and qui tam defense, fraud and abuse, regulatory issues, contractual and other commercial litigation, as well as medical staff, third-party payor hearings, and representing clients before the many administrative agency/licensing boards.

We work with a number of clients in the health care industry including:

• Hospitals and health systems
• Ambulatory surgery centers
• Diagnostic centers
• Physician practices
• Hospice and home health providers
• Academic medical centers
• Clinical laboratories
• Health insurance companies and HMOs
• Individual practitioners
• Medical device and biotech companies
• Pharmacies
• Pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Regional care organizations
• Integrated care networks
• Senior living and long-term care facilities
• Health information technology companies
• Behavioral health providers
• Dental/orthodontic providers
• Health care REITs
• Health care specialty lenders
• Urgent care providers
• Telehealth and telemedicine providers
• Continuing Care Retirement Communities