Practice Areas & Industries: Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

In the ever-changing healthcare industry, companies, providers and payors must have highly experienced counsel to navigate the maze of rules and regulations. Waller Lansden has emerged as a seasoned leader in the healthcare industry with four decades of experience in this arena.

Our healthcare clients include the largest for-profit healthcare company in the nation and industry leaders engaged in non-urban hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals and centers. We also represent mobile health services, dialysis centers, health management services, physicians (individual and group practices), long term care facilities, trade associations and home healthcare agencies. In addition, venture capitalists and financial institutions providing funding to healthcare companies and institutions have sought our advice.

Waller Lansden utilizes a team approach for each of our clients to provide a variety of skills to meet their individual needs. All of our healthcare attorneys have one or more areas of concentration that are important to the healthcare industry such as mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance, healthcare regulations, real estate and tax. Our attorneys are active in professional organizations such as the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association Health Law Section, and local and state health law and bar organizations. Our attorneys are frequently sought after to speak at seminars and have published numerous articles on health law topics.

Types of issues Waller Lansden regularly addresses for healthcare clients:

• Health information privacy, including HIPAA compliance
• e-health
• Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
• Joint ventures
• Physician practice management
• Provider networks and integrated delivery systems
• Dispute resolution, including litigation management and government investigations
• Tax
• Physician/facility relationships
• Managed care contracting
• Managed care/HMO licensure, regulation and operations
• Certificates of need
• Licensing and other state regulation
• Medicare/Medicaid certification and reimbursement
• Operations, including state and federal anti-kickback and self-referral issues
• Medical staff credentialling and related matters
• Contracting issues
• Employment/labor relations
• Medical malpractice
• Real estate
• Patient consent
• Environmental and medical waste issues

In addition to the specific services listed above, our healthcare attorneys take pride in their ability to solve the novel and complex problems posed by a rapidly changing healthcare industry. As new challenges arise, Waller Lansden looks forward to working with clients to find the creative solutions necessary for those clients to effectively compete in the marketplace.