Health Care

The legal landscape for health care providers continues to change dramatically. Economic and political pressures are instigating legislative changes. The insurance industry and government continue to decrease reimbursement rates for health care services provided to patients, placing tremendous fiscal pressure on health care providers to control the use of services without compromising the quality of patient care. Simultaneously, health care providers face increased litigation exposure and regulatory scrutiny by state and federal governmental agencies on a myriad of issues that affect their ability to operate.

We recognize that the legal issues facing the health care industry are unique and the members of our Health Care Practice are seasoned legal counsel, well-versed in helping those in the industry to successfully meet the challenges they face head on. Our health care lawyers are experienced on accreditation; certificate of need laws; corporate compliance programs; fraud and abuse, self-referrals, and false claims; health information and technology; health insurance reimbursement; health care liability and litigation; managed care; not for profit; physician organizations; qui tam litigation; self-insurance counseling; and product liability, including litigation involving medical devices, medical equipment, and pharmaceuticals. Recent experience includes the following:

• Successfully represented a Fortune 200 pharmaceutical company as national coordinating counsel in its defense of product liability litigation filed in a dozen states involving a leading anti-inflammatory medication
• Successfully represented an accrediting agency for graduate medical education program in a purported national class action relating to the Match program for resident physician positions, and in other lawsuits in a dozen states and in Puerto Rico
• Successfully represented national medical physician association in antitrust actions brought by chiropractors
• Successfully argued ADA appeal in the Seventh Circuit for a national physician specialty certification board
• Successfully represented healthcare provider in one of the first reported appellate decisions to construe the Medicare/Medicaid anti-kickback statute
• Successfully recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fees owed to various physician group practices and out-patient surgical centers by third-party payors
• Successfully represented physician group practice before the Illinois Supreme Court arguing that an uncertified professional corporation may enforce its right to direct payment from a major health insurance company
• Counseled numerous hospitals, health systems, long-term care facilities, ambulatory surgical treatment centers, and others on CON issues in acquiring, constructing, and financing health care facilities and major medical equipment