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Our Experience

Our Healthcare Law Group provides comprehensive legal services to healthcare providers, including the defense of professional liability claims, licensing, regulatory compliance, and medical products litigation, as well as corporate, tax and transactional representation, and estate planning advice and consultation. We represent a number of hospitals and health systems in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, including both community facilities and teaching institutions. We also provide representation for a variety of individual clients, including physicians, nurses and allied healthcare professionals, medical practice groups, research organizations, providers of pharmaceutical and medical education services, and entrepreneurs.

Our attorneys have represented pharmaceutical companies in DES, DPT, and AIDS litigation in addition to defending claims involving prescription drugs, over-the-counter products and medical device manufacturers. These services have been performed on a regional and national basis. We also have represented many healthcare providers in diet-drug cases and breast implant litigation, for which our firm served as statewide liaison counsel for healthcare defendants.

In addition to the defense of malpractice claims, members of our practice group also provide general representation and counseling in various areas of healthcare law. We handle administrative and court proceedings involving licensure issues, staff privileges and credentialing, contracts for the exclusive providing of services and potential anti-trust implications. With respect to individual healthcare providers, we are involved in the formation of professional corporations, acquisition issues, third-party contracts, the creation of qualified benefit plans, drafting of partnership agreements and advising clients generally as to business strategies, tax and liability considerations, fraud and abuse, STARK concerns, and regulatory compliance. In areas where litigation is involved, we have experience handing anti-trust, Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases and assisting clients in responding to compliance audits in both civil and criminal investigations.

Attorneys in our group prepare and present emergency medical petitions for court approval, give advice to hospital administration and staff members concerning HIPAA compliance, DNR orders, AIDS testing, guardianships and similar legal/medical issues. We regularly provide advice and counseling regarding by-laws and related corporate documents for healthcare institutions and have drafted medical staff guidelines, rules and regulations, bylaws and similar hospital policies. Our extensive experience in representing hospitals as well as physicians and allied health professionals gives us unique experience in terms of institutional issues, including hospital/medical staff relationships, physician group structure, personnel, insurance coverage and risk management issues.

Our attorneys provide advice and representation for home health agencies and have considerable experience in representing assisted living and continuing care facilities, as well as traditional nursing homes. We have been involved extensively with Departments of Insurance and other regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over the development of life care communities and the operation of existing facilities.

In addition to the foregoing matters, the Healthcare Law Group is involved in handling transactional matters for healthcare providers from a variety of perspectives. We have drafted employment, joint venture and exclusive contracts for hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, physicians and allied health professionals. We regularly review and have participated as bond counsel in another capacity in a number of transactions involving the finances and/or construction of hospitals, convalescent homes, medical office buildings and nursing homes. In conjunction with our Labor and Employment Group, we provide a broad range of employment and personnel advice relative to problems encountered by healthcare providers, including issues relating to AIDS, substance abuse and labor relations for institutions with both unionized and non-unionized work forces.

Our practice group includes a number of attorneys with experience in the medical field and as healthcare professionals themselves, which provides an enhanced knowledge base for the representation of our healthcare clients.