Practice Areas & Industries: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The Barnes & Thornburg Healthcare Department regularly represents physicians, medical groups, managed care organizations, hospitals, nursing homes, and national healthcare-related associations located around the country. Given our healthcare practice, we understand the unique commercial and regulatory environment in which healthcare organizations operate. Our attorneys bring their problem-solving and consensus-building skills to listen carefully to the goals of their clients and recommend practical solutions.

Services Available

Our attorneys in Atlanta, Chicago, Delaware, Indiana, Michigan, Minneapolis, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. deliver guidance on complex and often confusing healthcare legal issues, including:

• Compliance Planning
• Credentialing and Peer Review
• Dispute Resolution/Litigation
• Governance Issues
• Government Audits and Investigations
• Healthcare Antitrust
• Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities
• Joint Ventures
• Long-Term-Care Facilities
• Managed Care
• Medical Staff Issues
• Medicare and Medicaid Billing Issues
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Physician Employment Issues
• Physician Practice Groups
• Physician-Hospital Contracting
• Professional Licensing Issues
• Tax Exempt Organizations

We advise clients about compliance with the Stark law, analyze antitrust issues, conduct fraud and abuse audits, form physician groups, resolve reimbursement issues, negotiate exclusive contracts for physician services, facilitate mergers and acquisitions, develop strategies to maximize income and minimize taxes, counsel medical staffs, structure transactions in compliance with tax exempt laws, and litigate routine as well as esoteric and cutting-edge healthcare issues up to and including the United States Supreme Court.

We have helped form and counsel healthcare joint ventures across the country. When physicians and others want to collaborate, we not only guide them through the legal maze of healthcare laws, but also advise them about strategies to help avoid political and financial pitfalls. We use creativity and a sophisticated understanding of the law to achieve the goals of collaboration for physicians and hospitals. We offer a second opinion when our clients are told by others that the law prohibits certain types of business relationships.

Our healthcare attorneys often draw on the firm's intellectual property, labor, employee benefits, and business attorneys, as well as the governmental resources of our Washington office, to provide thorough and well-rounded representation for our healthcare clients.