Practice Areas & Industries: Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP offers comprehensive legal services to a wide range of clients. A very important part of the professional practice offered by the law firm is Health & Medicine, a practice group which is recognized nationwide. Our health care clients include allied health professionals, assisted living facilities, clinics, durable medical equipment suppliers, HMOs, home health care providers, hospitals, insurers, managed care plans, medical staffs, nursing homes, physicians and physician practice groups, and various other health related businesses.

Buckingham attorneys have extensive experience in issues ranging from corporate counseling to malpractice actions to operational issues. The Health & Medicine practice group is supplemented by legal nurse consultants and paralegals.

We are committed to protecting the best interests of our clients.

Services Available

Our Health & Medicine Practice group attorneys are active in the following areas:

• Allied Practitioner Credentialing

• Anti-Trust

• Assisted Living Facilities

• Board of Trustee/Director Education

• Buying and Selling of Healthcare Facilities and Practices

• Certificate of Need

• Credentialing Audits & Risk Management

• Defense of Hospitals

• Defense of Nurses and all Medical Providers

• Defense of Nursing Homes

• Defense of Physicians

• Employee Benefits

• General Corporate Counsel

• Health Personnel Immigration

• Hospital Accreditation and Decertification

• Hospital/Physician Contract Matters

• Joint Ventures

• Labor and Employment Relations

• Licensure

• Managed Care Corporations, Contracts and Reimbursement

• Medical Staff and Hospital Bylaws

• Medical Staff Credentialing

• Medical Staff Educational Programming

• Medicare/Medicaid Certification, Reimbursement and Appeals

• Mergers and Acquisitions

• Nursing Home Operational Issues

• PRO Operational Issues, Performance Reviews and Appeals

• Profit and Not-for-Profit Tax Counseling

• Risk Management

• Tax Exempt Financing

• Workers' Compensation

We are also offering new, innovative services that are effective in reducing legal costs and improving operational efficiency. They are as follows:

Corporate Compliance Audits
We review contracts, programs and systems, such as employee benefits, wage/hour, or waste management practices, and make recommendations to reduce costs and effectuate compliance.

Credentialing Audits
We provide a comprehensive review and analysis of a hospital's credentialing process, from the creation of credentialing criteria through the actual processing of an application.

Medical Malpractice Evaluation & Defense
We review the case or series of cases and make appropriate case management recommendations.

Medical Staff and Board Seminars
We offer a variety of one and two day seminars dealing with current topics, these topics have included economic credentialing, credentialing and quality assurance, Medical Staff Bylaws, PRO defensive strategies, clinical pathways, managed care, physician contracts and so on. Our list of topics is constantly updated to meet current needs.

Physician Recruitment
We keep current with the numerous OIG, IRS and Stark regulations that affect physician compensation and recruitment. We use several contract models to efficiently handle various situations.

Physician Office Services
In conjunction with a number of nationally known consultants, we provide various types of office management services which involve personnel management, coding, RVS fees, contracting with insurance companies, billings and collections, purchasing, accounting, budgeting, group practice, income distribution, fee schedule development, medical records issues, and malpractice issues.

Health & Medicine Practice Group Clients
The BDB Health & Medicine Practice Group clients include organizations throughout the country:

• Government Agencies Health Maintenance Organizations

• Hospital and Health Care Systems

• Independent Practice Associations

• Insurance Product Providers

• Long Term Care Providers

• Management Service Organizations

• Physician Hospital Organizations

• Physician Practice Networks

• Primary Care Providers

• Preferred Provider Organizations

• Specialty Group Practices

• Tertiary Hospitals and Community Hospitals