Health Care
A changing sector. A constant partner.
The health care industry is always moving. Shifting. Fluctuating. In this environment, you need a partner who won’t just help you keep up, but can guarantee you’ll stay ahead. At Brownstein, we represent health care businesses across a full spectrum of issues—working relentlessly to make sure our clients are perpetually on the leading edge.
Amid the evolving regulatory and political landscape in the health care industry, our agile team brings the right people to the table to solve your most pressing problems. Whether it’s a hospital seeking to influence policy debates, a medical device manufacturer with intellectual property and privacy questions or a health care provider engaged in a dispute with a referring physician, our group is ready and waiting with multidisciplinary solutions. And with the capacity to structure cross-state operations that comply with both local and national legal requirements, we have the scale and geographic reach to support you, no matter what stage of growth or region you’re in.
Health care experience
Public Policy
Playing an active role in policy formation and in the political decision-making process is an imperative and requires a dynamic approach. Our team proactively engages to protect your interests and achieve your political objectives in Washington by deploying substantive health care expertise to influence debates, recruit validators and ensure successful outcomes.
- Represent clients before Congress and federal agencies
- Provide technical policy advice
- Draft legislation
- Form coalitions
Regulatory
Serving as corporate counsel for our health care clients, we are well-versed in the regulatory rules and requirements they face. Our attorneys are constantly staying abreast of new developments to ensure that our clients remain compliant and can quickly modify their practices and procedures to address changes in the law.
- HIPAA and data privacy
- Fraud and abuse
- Government investigations
- Hospital operations
- Employment law, including wage and hour
Dispute Resolution
Our health care litigators are active across the country. Whether in state and federal courts or arbitration proceedings, our clients benefit from dedicated industry knowledge. We anticipate strategies employed by opposing counsel and are adept at both traditional commercial litigation as well as claims unique to health care providers such as payor disputes and peer review proceedings.
- Contract and tort disputes
- False Claims Act (FCA) issues
- Managed care litigation
- Misappropriation of trade secrets
M&A
Today, consolidation in the health care space is becoming more common. Whether it’s hospitals joining forces to better serve patients, physician groups coming together to extend their network or a single company acquiring another to fill a gap in its portfolio, we know how to advise on health care mergers and acquisitions—and ensure their success.
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity investments
- Joint ventures
Real Estate
From a single doctor’s office to a sprawling medical campus, real estate is an important issue for many health care companies. We combine our extensive knowledge in real estate law with our deep understanding of the health care field to help our clients manage the legal and regulatory aspect of their physical spaces.
- Leasing
- Land use and development
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Senior living
- Medical office buildings
Protecting Pediatric Emergency Care
The Emergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act (EMSC) is the only federal program exclusively focused on improving emergency care for children and adolescents. Since its enactment in 1984, the EMSC has decreased pediatric injury-related deaths by 40%. That’s why the Emergency Nurses Association made it a key legislative priority for 2024. Our Government Relations team provided strategic guidance to the ENA and worked diligently to move this bill through the legislative process getting it signed into law during a time when very few measures were making it across the finish line. As a result, pediatric patients will continue to receive the appropriate treated in emergency situations.
Sophisticated Dealmaking Helps a Community Hospital Thrive
Keeping a much-needed community hospital open in a southern Arizona community required quick action to make a sophisticated deal happen. Brownstein’s integrated team of corporate, litigation and government relations counsel successfully guided the distressed Casa Grande Regional Medical Center through filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the resulting acquisition of its assets and certain liabilities by Banner Health. In only 10 months, the team surmounted multiple hurdles—two attempted transactions to acquire Casa Grande by other hospital systems, a hotly contested auction process, significant antitrust challenges and complicated health care regulatory issues—to successfully complete the sale.
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