KBR’s healthcare practice includes representation of hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and physician group practices, home care agencies, ambulatory care clients, surgery care centers, hospices and other healthcare providers, vendors and suppliers, as well as many healthcare start-up companies and various types of adult living facilities. We are experienced in transactional, regulatory, corporate and counseling matters. Some of our areas of concentration include:
- Corporate/transactional matters, including formation and governance of business entities, asset purchase agreements and sale of practices, and Board/governance issues, among others;
- Compliance/regulatory matters, including issues involving federal and state regulators, CON issues, Office of Inspector General (OIG) matters, and reimbursement issues;
- Contractual matters, including employment agreements, physician contracts and contractual joint ventures, computer licensing and maintenance agreements and disputes, equipment purchases, residency and student agreements, and transfer agreements;
- Medical staff/physician matters, including physician contracts, medical staff bylaws, medical staff disputes, credentialing issues, and physician joint ventures;
- Employment matters, including contracts, counseling, working with Human Resources, employee complaints, EEOC and State Division of Human Rights matters, investigations and defense (working with the firm’s employment practices group);
- Managed care contracts, payer issues and disputes;
- Professional discipline investigations and complaints in the Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) and Office of Professional
- Discipline (OPD);
- HIPAA and HITECH compliance;
- Electronic medical records – contracts, compliance, licenses;
- Physician-hospital integration;
- Joint ventures between various healthcare entities;
- Human subject research;
- Graduate medical education;
- Accreditation matters;
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act interpretation, implementation and compliance; and
- Patient care consultation/risk management and legal advice, often needed by healthcare providers on a 24-hour per day basis.
KBR’s Healthcare Group works closely with the Employment Practices Group, which represents and counsels employers in all types of employment-related issues and disputes. Much of our work in the employment area for healthcare clients involves loss prevention, including internal investigations, employee and management training and development of state-of-the-art employment practices, policies and procedures. The firm enjoys notable success in all variations of alternative dispute resolution.
KBR also often gets involved in healthcare issues, given the focus today on the responsibility of boards. This includes not only defending corporate directors and officers in all types of liability claims but providing risk management services and counseling designed to minimize liability for board decisions and executive conduct.