Healthcare providers in America are faced with ever-increasing governmental regulation and oversight. Compliance is costly, but failure to comply can be more expensive. Healthcare attorneys at Copeland Cook offer quality legal advice that can lessen the burden on providers. The firm’s highly specialized healthcare practice ranges from representation of single physician practices to major healthcare systems.
Copeland Cook’s healthcare clients include hospitals, physicians, home health agencies, hospices, nursing homes, managed care organizations, therapy companies, DME suppliers, and other healthcare professionals. Our representation encompasses all aspects of issues related to healthcare, including such matters as:
Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, including administrative appeals and court challenges
Design and implementation of corporate compliance and HIPAA programs
Certificate of need and licensure applications, including administrative challenges
Physician partnership and recruitment agreements
Defense against claims of professional negligence or malpractice
Physician compliance with the Stark Act
Legal guidance regarding long-term care institutions in licensure deficiencies, including administrative challenges
Hospital bylaws
Labor and employment issues
Mergers and acquisitions of healthcare facilities
Restructuring of healthcare provider organizations
Expansions of services and facilities in compliance with state and federal law
Copeland Cook attorneys represent healthcare clients before local State agencies; Medicare intermediaries and carriers; the Provider Reimbursement Review Board in Baltimore, Maryland; and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (before Administrative Law Judges and Departmental Appeals Board). These attorneys monitor and advocate healthcare issues for physicians and providers through the State and Federal legislative processes. This is another part of what Copeland Cook seeks to provide for each of our clients-efficient litigation of problems that do arise and sound legal advice to prevent problems from occurring in the first place.
Copeland Cook’s Medical Malpractice Defense attorneys, along with our Healthcare attorneys, practice before all Mississippi State and Federal trial and appellate courts. Their extensive knowledge of healthcare law and medicine provides an invaluable perspective on the defense of litigated claims, one that may not be available from litigation firms not familiar with these areas.
