Health Law

Williams & Anderson PLC devotes substantial attention to matters of health care law. Our team is involved in compliance, acquisition, and labor and employment issues. Health care clients include hospital systems, large providers, health care clinics, small providers, and third-party administrators for employee benefit plans.

Our health care experience includes:

• Labor and employment litigation and compliance
• Compliance with Stark and Anti-Kickback laws and regulations and new developments such as the “red flag” rule and changes to the “anti-markup rule”
• Medicare and Medicaid compliance, including preparation for recovery audit contract appeals
• HIPAA compliance and defense
• Physician/hospital relations, including credentialing, economic conflicts of interest, peer review, and staff bylaws and rules
• Antitrust counseling and litigation
• Electronic Medical Records implementation post stimulus package
• Record retention to comply with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on discovery of electronically stored information
• Space and equipment lease agreements, physician contracts, employment, recruitment, professional services agreements, contracts with mobile diagnostic testing and imaging technicians, and similar agreements
• Practice management agreements, joint ventures, and financing arrangements
• Specialty hospital issues from ownership to emergency room and peer review
• Requirements upon 501(c)(3) not-for-profit health care providers, such as the community benefit standard and the rules on executive compensation