No segment of the business and professional community is more highly regulated and more exposed to legal risks and opportunities than the healthcare industry. Our experience includes provider contracting; compliance with federal and state healthcare laws and regulations; risk management; quality assurance; medical staff credentialing and privileging issues; health system affliations; antitrust; certificate of need litigation; emergency department call issues; healthcare facility construction issues; the acquisition and sale of healthcare facilities; professional liability defense; hospital, physician, and nurse licensure; managed care contracting; HIPAA and EMTALA compliance; medical records issues; healthcare financing; tax exempt bonds; healthcare billing and collection issues; clinical trial and research issues; Joint Commission compliance and many others.
Whether representing a large regional hospital system, a hospital medical staff, or an individual physician's practice, Mateer Harbert brings to the table a full range of expertise and experience in this important field.