Health Care

The Health Care Practice Group at Gresham Savage includes experienced attorneys who counsel and represent all aspects of the health care industry, including hospitals, physician groups, HMOs, County Organized Health Systems, public agencies, medical equipment and device companies, and ancillary providers on a wide range of issues. Our attorneys bring significant industry knowledge to their practice and are actively involved in numerous health care professional and industry organizations.

Members of our Health Care Practice Group frequently work together with attorneys in other practice groups to counsel and represent our health care industry clients in a wide variety of complex business and transactional matters, litigation cases, labor and employment issues, intellectual property issues; tax, including nonprofit tax matters; antitrust analysis; and real estate and land use matters.

We assist clients in the structuring and formation of managed care entities and arrangements. We advise on compliance with HMO and state insurance laws. We represent health care providers, insurance carriers, and technology companies in a wide variety of medical technology-related transactions and also assist clients with regulatory and compliance matters that arise in clinical research. Our attorneys help health care clients comply with all medical information privacy and security requirements mandated by state and federal law, security issues that arise in connection with electronic medical records systems, compliance with state and federal laws and regulations, as well as voluntary standards. We also assist health care clients in responding to government audits and investigations including those related to claims under state and federal False Claims Acts.

Representative counseling issues include:

Regulatory compliance
Risk assessment and management
Audits and investigations
Provider contracting
Business transactions
Executive comprehension and benefits
Provider termination and insolvencies
Fraud and abuse
Corporate strategic initiatives
Corporate restructuring
Administrative matters

Representative contested matters include:

Business Torts, including:
Trade secrets litigation
Fraud
RICO Lawsuits
Interference with business contracts & business advantage
Breach of fiduciary duty
Managed care litigation including:
Contact interpretation
Collections
Overpayment disputes
Disputes between physicians and IPAs or medical groups
Partnership, corporate and joint venture disputes
False Claims Act cases
Director and officer liability claims
Insurance coverage disputes
Civil rights issues
Provider/Vendor disputes
Employment litigation
Medical staff investigation, peer review hearings, and litigation
Antitrust and unfair competition claims
Breach of contract
Administrative proceedings: Medical Board of California and other licensing boards, California Department of Health Care Services, California Department of Public Health, California Department of Social Services, California Department of Education-Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
Appeals and Writs