Overview
Calfee's Health Care Regulation practice provides clients with quality, comprehensive and practical solutions to the specific regulatory challenges they face. We represent a variety of health care organizations and providers as well as health care technology and wellness companies.
Our Health Care Regulation attorneys are knowledgeable on the ever-changing health care laws and regulations, evolving reimbursement models and trends, and other business and regulatory developments.
Calfee’s Health Care practice provides legal services to various types of health care facilities, including the following:
- Academic medical centers
- Hospital facilities
- Physician groups and individual physicians
- Long-term care facilities
- Biomedical and medical device start-up companies
- DMEPOS manufacturers and suppliers
- Pharmacies
- Dialysis providers
- Health care management and administrative service providers
- Health care payors
- Billing companies
- Independent and physician office laboratories
- Medical technology, device, and life science companies
- Pharmaceutical benefit managers
- Health care information technology and wellness companies
Noteworthy
Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” Rankings
Calfee was selected for inclusion in the 20245 "Best Law Firms" rankings in Health Care Law (Regional Tier 1 Cleveland).
Professionals
Professionals
Experience
Experience
Calfee has significant experience representing various clients with their health care matters:
- Hospitals and physician groups in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and buyouts.
- Physicians in contract negotiations and practice formation.
- Health systems and physicians in federal and state false claims, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Stark law matters.
- Hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and other health care providers in disputes and litigation arising out of contracts with insurers, physicians, suppliers, and others.
- Health care employers in disputes and litigation with physicians and other medical professionals.
- Restructuring, governance, regulatory guidance, and contracting for an academic medical center.
- Facilities and providers in creating and updating compliance plans and administering compliance programs.
- Health care technology firms in corporate and regulatory matters.
- Hospital and other health care providers in antitrust litigation.
- Providers in connection with the HHS Office of the Inspector General investigations.
- Hospitals in connection with grand jury investigations conducted by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
- Hospitals, clinics, and physicians in connection with post-trial proceedings and appeals from excess verdicts and punitive damage awards in medical malpractice litigation.
Services
Services
- Mergers and acquisitions of health care providers/payors
- Joint ventures and other hospital/physician integration and alignment strategies
- Federal and state health care fraud and abuse, False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Stark law investigations
- Contract disputes involving physicians, hospitals, suppliers, contractors, employees, insurers, and managed-care entities
- Regulatory compliance plans
- Health care antitrust litigation
- Insurance-related litigation
- Staff privileges litigation
- Medical board hearings
- Reimbursement disputes
- Non-competition issues
- Licensing matters