The Health Care Investor : Healthcare Lawyers & Attorneys for Life Science Companies & Investors

We have broad experience and expertise in representing various healthcare providers and life science companies and their investors in various forms of affiliations, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures that involve both not-for-profit and for-profit parties.

We also handle complex transactional matters involving professional corporations, leases, joint ventures, equipment purchases, health insurance, medical devices, partnerships, group practice plans, and preventing corporate practice of medicine violations.

McGuireWoods transactional and regulatory health care lawyers provide a wide range of services to health care clients including:

• Transaction structure advice and recommendations through term sheet and letter of intent (including choice of entity for target, management equity participation and roll-overs, and asset, stock and hybrid deals)
• Due diligence planning, review and oversight for private equity investments and other transactions
• Preparation, review and negotiation of all acquisition, employment, credit, shareholder and investor rights agreements
• Hospital and health system affiliations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
• Counseling managed care networks and organizations. We have particular expertise in regulation, antitrust, ERISA, government-sponsored managed care, business, and litigation issues relevant to managed care plans.
• Drafting, negotiating, revising, and interpreting contracts and other documents.
• Counseling clients on healthcare specific regulation, including:
  • Federal and state anti-kickback and fraud and abuse laws
  • Federal and state self-referral laws, including the federal Stark law
  • Restrictions on patient transfers, including the Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)
  • Health Care Quality Improvement Act
  • Patient consent issues
  • Death and end of life issues
  • Corporate practice of medicine restrictions
  • Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation
  • Federal and state privacy laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  • False Claims Act
  • Food and Drug Administration regulations
  • Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
  • Developing and implementing compliance programs, developing corporate integrity agreements, conducting internal audits to assess regulatory compliance
• The healthcare team routinely represents, at all levels of professional and facility licensure and certification, individuals and institutions, including: hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs), freestanding diagnostic facilities, continuing care retirement communities, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospices, pharmacies, emergency medical services agencies, and individual health professionals.