Practice Areas & Industries: Jenner & Block LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Attorneys in the Health Care Law Practice provide a full range of legal services for individuals and entities in nearly every aspect of the health care field. We represent a diverse array of clients, including many national, state, and local associations of health care professionals and institutions, health-related certification bodies, voluntary health organizations, major health care provider institutions, individual and group health care practitioners and practices, health insurance issuers and managed care organizations, medical billing and management firms, and medical products manufacturers, suppliers and associations.

Services Available

The Firm's health care experience is as diverse as it is broad. Some of the areas in which we concentrate include:

• Fraud and abuse investigations, defense, and compliance counseling.
• Antitrust litigation and counseling.
• Legislative and regulatory advocacy and counseling.
• Patient privacy and confidentiality under HIPAA and other federal and state laws.
• Medicare and private third-party reimbursement.
• Nonprofit/tax-exempt organizations.
• Health care professional certification/licensure and institutional accreditation.
• FDA regulation.
• Reorganizations of non-profit provider institutions.
• Litigation over the constitutionality of laws affecting patients and health care providers.
• Contract drafting and negotiation between providers and institutions and managed care organizations.
• E-health and other Internet health care issues.
• Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) litigation and counseling.
• Hospital/medical staff relations.
• Advance directives and end-of-life decision making.
• Intellectual property issues, including copyright, trademark, and patent issues.
• Corporate transactions.
• Establishment of provider-sponsored networks and other integrated delivery systems.
• Medical practice acquisitions and mergers.
• Employment, employee benefits and personnel matters.
• Taxation.

Our attorneys are active in national and local health care professional organizations and societies, and also speak and write extensively on health care law and policy topics.