We guide clients through the opportunities and challenges of the health care marketplace.
For nearly half a century, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP has maintained an active and extensive health care practice. Familiar with all aspects of the industry, we work as a team to not only advise clients on matters as they arise, but also to help them proactively identify opportunities and avoid potential problems.
We are keenly aware of the strategic interdependence of health care providers, practitioners, and payors. Our extensive experience in representing diverse health care clients helps us understand, anticipate, and respond to strategic concerns posed by a constantly changing regulatory and business environment. Equally important is our ability to give clients—whether leading institutions in their communities or individual practitioners—the tools they need to ensure that their day-to-day operations comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Clients benefit from our knowledge and experience, as well as our willingness to work with in-house personnel and counsel to meet objectives without constant lawyer involvement.
Our Clients
- Hospitals, health systems, and multihospital networks
- Physicians and physician groups
- Academic medical centers and research hospitals
- Ambulatory surgery centers
- Medical transportation companies
- Imaging and other diagnostic facilities
- Dialysis and radiation therapy facilities
- Nursing and assisted living facilities
- Pharmacies and medical equipment suppliers
- Concierge medical practices
- Tissue banks and cancer treatment centers
- Billing companies
Our Capabilities
- Accreditation (joint commission, DNV, etc.)
- Acquisitions, affiliations, and general corporate matters
- Antitrust
- Assistance with Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIA)
- Behavioral health
- Bioethics
- Board governance
- Certificate of need (preparation, hearings, and administrative litigation)
- Clinical Co-Management Agreements
- Clinical research
- Coding
- Compliance advice
- Compliance program development
- Compliance programs, including health care providers and health plans
- Contract and grant review
- Credentialing (payor and facility)
- Drafting and review of contracts, letters of intent, employment agreements, and other arrangements
- False claims act defense
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (drug, device, emergency use authorization)
- Foundations
- Fraud and abuse advice
- Fraud and abuse, self-referral, and false claims issues
- Governance advice
- Government regulatory investigations (CIDs, audits, interviews, etc.)
- Health care bond issuance
- Health care litigation
- Health client mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Health employment law
- Health information privacy and security
- Health information technology
- Health law strategic advice and counsel
- HIPAA program reviews, breach investigations/reporting, and response
- Human resources
- Immigration
- Intellectual property (licensing, patents, copyrights, service marks, etc.)
- Internal and external investigations, audits, and monitoring
- Internal investigations
- Joint ventures
- Labor and employment
- Legislative advice/lobbying
- Licensure, accreditation, certification, change of ownership, and certificate of need issues
- Licensure, permits, registrations (state and federal)
- Litigation (premise liability, product liability, contractual, commercial, etc.)
- MACRA
- Managed care contracting
- Management services arrangements
- Medical lien resolution
- Medical malpractice defense
- Medical staff bylaws
- Medical staff matters, including medical staff bylaws reviews and hearings
- Medical staff peer review and litigation
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and enrollment
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Nonprofits
- Operational issues, including quality assurance and risk management
- Operations matters
- Patient issues (decision-making, end-of-life, complaints, etc.)
- Patient safety
- Payor contracting and provider network design
- Physician acquisitions/integration
- Physician contracting
- Premises security (health care providers)
- Private equity transactions
- Procurement
- Professional services agreements
- Provider-payor enrollment
- Provider-payor disputes
- Quality/UR
- Qui tam investigations
- Qui tam litigation
- RAC contractor appeals
- Real estate (transactions, leasing, land use, general advice)
- Reimbursement/revenue cycle
- Risk management
- Self-insurance
- Service as outside general counsel
- Software issues (licensing, disputes, etc.)
- Tax exemption issues, including maintenance of 501(c)(3) status and tax-exempt financing
- Telemedicine
- ZPIC audits