Practice Areas & Industries: Miller Nash LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Today's healthcare providers operate in a complex environment that encompasses an ever-changing landscape of issues and challenges. In addition to dealing with the ground-level operational issues facing all types of businesses, healthcare providers and institutions must also address issues that are unique to this heavily regulated industry, and they do so under heightened scrutiny. Miller Nash has the depth and experience to assist healthcare organizations and providers in navigating the broad spectrum of legal issues facing their businesses, and as a result, Miller Nash is a leading Pacific Northwest health law firm.

The firm's healthcare attorneys have more than seven decades of legal experience, and the specialized knowledge needed to help clients expand services, create business opportunities, engage in new ventures, comply with a variety of regulations, and assess and manage risk. The Miller Nash healthcare group provides accurate and practical advice to a wide range of healthcare organizations and providers, including air ambulance providers, ambulatory surgery centers, individual physicians, hospitals and multihospital health systems, single- and multispecialty group practices, long-term care facilities, health plans and managed care organizations, and medical technology companies. Our specialized healthcare expertise includes the following areas:

• Affiliations and Combinations-- practice acquisition, joint ventures, mergers, transfers of ownership interests
• Contracting-- physician recruitment, physician employment and contracting, services agreements
• Corporate Governance-- board bylaws, policies, and best practices; executive compensation; board education
• Ethical Issues-- healthcare decision-making, beginning- and end-of-life issues, informed consent, advance directives
• Facility Issues-- compliance plans and programs, licensing and accreditation, risk management, quality improvement programs, certificate-of-need applications
• Health Information Technology-- e-health initiatives, hardware and software licensing agreements, intellectual property issues and protections
• Medical Staff Issues-- medical staff bylaws, credentialing, peer review, fair hearings
• Payment Issues-- CMS coding, billing, and reimbursement rules; CMS rules of participation; and CMS post payment review audits
• Physician Groups-- formation, employment relationships, compensation
• Privacy Laws-- HIPAA privacy and security standards, state law, business associate agreements
• Regulatory Compliance-- Stark and Anti-kickback compliance, IRS regulations applicable to tax-exempt organizations, EMTALA, responding to government investigations and subpoenas

In addition, our attorneys provide services to our healthcare clients in the following complementary practice areas:

• Construction
• Labor and Employment
• Real Estate
• State and Local Taxation

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