Stevens & Lee assists health care organizations and providers meet the challenges they face in a changing and consolidating industry. Our health care lawyers serve as general counsel to acute care and specialty health care organizations, health systems, long-term care providers, managed care organizations, integrated delivery systems, physician practices and other health care providers and organizations.

Among our health care attorneys are former industry executives – including a former hospital CEO, CFO and other administrators – clinicians, such as registered nurses and a pharmacist, and in-house general counsel to health care providers.

The work we do in the health care industry speaks of our experience. Through our ongoing representations of major health care organizations, our appreciation for the complexity of the regulatory and business environment in which the industry operates has been proven time and again with positive results. Stevens & Lee represents health care providers and organizations in a wide range of matters, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations and reorganizations, Medicare and Medicaid compliance and related regulatory matters, health care contracting, licensure, exempt organization tax planning and tax-exempt financing, medical staff and reimbursement matters, the purchase and sale of health care facilities and medical practices, the development of physician-hospital organizations, antitrust planning, risk funding and captive insurance, labor and employment matters, state and federal lobbying and troubled institution restructuring.

Our health care team is highly skilled in counseling health care clients in risk management and loss control and in protecting them against litigation claims. Our highly experienced health care litigation attorneys assist clients in defending a variety of litigation matters, including commercial health care litigation, medical staff matters, professional liability litigation, fraud and abuse, licensing, covenants not to compete, managed care litigation and representations before state and federal regulatory agencies. We have extensive experience, both criminal and civil, in litigation matters before administrative agencies and state and federal courts.

Health care providers and organizations of all shapes and sizes choose us every day to partner with them in identifying and accomplishing their strategic objectives and to help resolve unexpected difficulties.

For more information, please contact Charles M. Honart at 610.205.6017,  James W. Saxton at 717.399.6639 or Joanne M. Judge at 610.478.2226.