Alston & Bird’s health care practice is one of the largest in the country. It is a national practice with more than 100 attorneys actively involved in the health care industry, representing a commitment of over 10 percent of our total firm resources.
The signature strength of our health care practice is our ability to master complex representations that draw on the coordinated expertise of our regulatory, public policy, transactional, biotechnology, government investigations and litigation practice areas. Because of the breadth of our client base and the depth of our experience in every facet of the health care industry, we offer our clients a thorough understanding of the legal and business challenges they confront.
Our Services
Academic Medical Centers & Teaching Hospitals
Antitrust
Certification, Accreditation & Licensure
Corporate Compliance Programs
Corporate Transactions
Food, Drug & Device/FDA
Fraud & Abuse
Government Investigations
Health Care Corporate Finance & Securities
Health Care Litigation
Health & Welfare Benefits
HIPAA Privacy & Security
HeaIth Information Technology Task Force
Hospital Systems
Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
Legislative & Public Policy
Life Sciences
Private Equity
Reimbursement
Experience
Our wide-ranging client base includes a number of Fortune 500 companies, including:
- health care providers of all types;
- medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers;
- hospitals and nursing homes;
- companies specializing in medical information technology, e-health and biotechnology;
- academic medical centers;
- industry trade associations;
- clinical laboratory companies;
- health plans;
- managed care companies;
- pharmacy benefit managers;
- medical billing and clearinghouse companies;
- physician groups; and
- investment banks, private equity firms and other institutions that finance the health care industry.
Accolades
Consistently ranked by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Alston & Bird’s health care practice “has a truly national scope,” offering “top-quality representation on the most sophisticated matters.”
Bringing Value to Our Clients
A major advantage Alston & Bird offers clients is our ability to work effectively with federal, state and local regulators. Our attorneys are recognized leaders and bring a unique and practical results-oriented perspective to client issues.
Our health care attorneys include:
- the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS);
- a former U.S. Senator who was the longest serving Republican Senate Leader in the history of the United States;
- a former health policy advisor and counsel to the Senate Finance Committee;
- a former associate commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;
- a former associate chief counsel for medical devices and for enforcement at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;
- two former senior counsel of the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS);
- four lawyers listed by The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of health law;
- One lawyer ranked among the top 10 litigators in the country by The National Law Journal;
- two former in-house hospital counsel and one former physician practice in-house counsel;
- one attorney who is a certified procedural coder;
- two former U.S. attorneys and a number of former assistant U.S. attorneys;
- the immediate past chair of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section;
- the current co-chair of the American Bar Association Food and Drug Administration Committee;
- two current vice chairs of practice groups of the American Health Lawyers Association;
- a past chair of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Health Care Committee;
- a past chair of the State Bar of Georgia’s Health Care Section;
- three past presidents of the Georgia Academy of Health Care Attorneys;
- a past president of the American Counsel Association;
- the chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Annual Program on Antitrust Issues in Health Care;
- the vice-chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Annual Hospital Law Institute;
- a former member of the board of directors of the American Health Lawyers Association; and
- the author of one of the nation’s first books on health care credentialing and peer review.
Experience
- TBDHealthSouth – Served as lead Washington counsel to HealthSouth since 2004, assisting HealthSouth on a range of legislative and regulatory issues facing them as both a health care provider and an employer; have also provided strategic counsel, policy advising, advocacy, legislative drafting, regulatory counsel and other advice as needed.
- Pfizer – Served as Independent Review Organization and outside counsel to insure compliance with a $2.3 billion consent decree with the HHS Office of Inspector General for off-label promotion of Bextra and other products.
- Getinge AB – Represented the client in its cross-border acquisition of a medical device manufacturer with extensive intellectual property rights, including in core business lines of interventional cardiology and related vascular products.
- Ardent Health Services - Representation of two of five sites selected by CMS to participate in a demonstration project for bundled payments to hospitals and physicians; this demonstration program is a precursor to the National Pilot Program on Bundled Payments, which will be implemented over the next several years.
