Practice Areas & Industries: Fowler White Boggs P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Fowler White Boggs has been ranked as a leading Florida law firm for Health Care by Chambers USA for five consecutive years (2005 - 2009). The Health Care Group is comprised of both individuals who specialize in assisting health care clients on a full time basis and an accumulation of talent from across the spectrum of Fowler White Boggs' practice areas. Because many health care issues cross many of the traditional practice boundaries, the Health Care Group is made up of lawyers with concentrations in all areas in which health care issues arise. The following is a list of some of the areas in which Fowler White Boggs has experience.

• Advance Directives; Living Wills; Informed Consent
• AHCA and DOH Investigations
• Antitrust
• Defense of Health Care Providers, Including Hospitals, Physicians and Nurses
• Defense of Long Term Care Providers, including Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities and Intermediate Care Facilities for Developmentally Disabled Persons
• Compliance with State and Federal Regulatory Requirements Regarding Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Diagnostic Imaging Centers, Physician Group Practices
• Corporate and Tax Matters including Non-Compete Agreements, Trade Secrets, Tax and Business Planning
• Corporate Compliance Programs
• EMTALA
• ERISA and Managed Care Litigation,Health Insurance Coverage, TPAs
• Fraud and Abuse, Self Referral Law, Fee Splitting Prohibition; Patient Brokering Law
• Health Care Facility and Professional Licensing and Accreditation
• HIPAA, Medical Records Issues, HIV Testing, Patient Confidentiality
• Long-term Health Care and Nursing Home Policies
• Managed Care Contracting
• Medical Malpractice
• Medical Staff Issues, Peer Review, Credentialing, Physician Recruiting
• Medicaid, Medicare, Government and Military/Veteran Administration Matters
• Mental Health Care

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BIOTECH AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

As the medical sciences become increasingly complex and biomedical science and technology take ever larger roles in medical treatment, it is imperative that the science be explored, exploited and protected. Our Intellectual Property lawyers, along with the health care lawyers, work together to help biotech, nanotech and biomedical device companies, researchers and health care institutions develop, finance and protect the intellectual property developed for health care providers.

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HEALTH CARE CORPORATE COMPLIANCE

Fowler White Boggs has substantial and successful experience in helping health care organizations and professionals comply with regulatory requirements and avoid, investigate, and defend claims of fraud and abuse. Our firm offers lawyers in the cutting-edge fields of white collar criminal law, independent investigations and audits, regulatory compliance, permits, antitrust, improper pricing, and whistleblower claims. Plus, our firm addresses the evolving new claims under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Medicare/Medicaid, False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Act, and other health care fraud laws.

Health Care Corporate Compliance Experience
Our white collar criminal defense lawyers are former federal prosecutors. They have handled many aspects of criminal medical fraud. For example, we have recently:

• investigated and defended insurance companies concerning alleged fraud in providing home health care insurance in South Florida. investigated and defended a health care professional for alleged criminal health care fraud in the Tampa Bay area.
• investigated and defended corporations throughout the state concerning alleged criminal fraud and misrepresentations in connection with medicaid and medicare fraud.

Our commercial litigators have defended multiple Florida class action lawsuits alleging unfair medical pricing and have defended whistleblower, benefits, and insurance claims and appeals.

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HEALTH CARE / MANAGED CARE / ERISA

Fowler White Boggs' health insurance managed care and ERISA litigation group has drawn upon varied and extensive experience in insurance coverage litigation to specialize in this growing field. This specialized litigation group has experience in representing major health, life and disability insurance carriers through trial in state and federal court, including issues such as entitlement to benefits, medical necessity determinations, reasonable rate of reimbursement issues, subrogation claims, and complex ERISA benefits litigation. The group has represented major carriers in high profile benefits litigation statewide. The firm has also represented employer-sponsors in coverage litigation and compliance matters.

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HEALTH CARE LITIGATION

Health care litigation has increased dramatically in recent years. Fowler White Boggs has substantial and successful experience in helping health care organizations and professionals avoid, investigate, and defend claims of fraud and abuse. Our firm offers lawyers in the cutting-edge fields of health care pricing litigation, disputes between providers, white collar criminal law, independent investigations and audits, regulatory compliance and permits, antitrust, malpractice, insurance, and employment litigation, including whistleblower claims. Our firm addresses the evolving new claims under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Medicare/Medicaid, False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statutes, and other health care fraud laws.

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THE BUSINESS OF HEALTH CARE

Because health care may involve business issues which require expertise in many of our traditional practice areas, lawyers with concentrations in corporate, tax, finance, securities, real estate, immigration, labor and employee benefits work together to provide comprehensive legal services to our health care clients.