Practice Areas & Industries: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Practice/Industry Group Overview
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC's health care practice has extensive experience helping health care providers achieve their goals. Our clients include large hospitals and health systems, rural hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and health related businesses.

We work closely with administrators, chief executives, financial officers, boards, physicians and staff to provide the resources they need to make effective decisions and find cost effective solutions tailored to the needs of their organizations, including incorporation and bylaws; regulatory approvals; licensure; facility policies; acquisitions and sales of health care facilities and programs; acquisitions and sales of private physician practices; governance and management issues; contractual arrangements with physicians and service and equipment suppliers and others; managed care contracting; hospital network, affiliation and managed care arrangements; group practices; physician credentialing and related tax issues.

We counsel clients regarding antitrust considerations relating to business transactions, provider relations and privilege disputes; physician, nursing and other practitioner licenses; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) issues; compliance matters; assisting in obtaining licenses; representation of health care providers in certificate of need proceedings and rate making and licensure surveys; plans of correction for survey deficiencies and appeals; antitrust litigation.

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Clients:
Employers Reinsurance Co. , Erie Insurance Group , The Hartford Group , Health Care & Retirement Corp., Kemper Insurance , Monongalia General Hospital , Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital , United Hospital Center, Inc.