Hospitals

CONTACTS:
Robert F. Leibenluft, Washington, D.C.
Clifford D. Stromberg, Washington, D.C.

The U.S. healthcare sector is being transformed. Hospital systems need to re-examine their structure, governance processes, operational systems, and their relationship with insurers, suppliers, physicians, patients, and regulatory agencies. We can help you with all these areas. Our lawyers have extensive experience as top governmental officials in health regulatory and policy agencies, as well as in industry and private advisory capacities. Healthcare is one of the most highly regulated industries, encompassing dozens of specialized areas. Our firm has recognized leaders in virtually all these areas – and we work efficiently as teams to resolve complex client matters that traverse these fields.

We have an extensive practice advising hospitals on matters such as mergers, combinations, and joint ventures; purchases and sales of hospitals and freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers; corporate structure and board governance issues; physician contracting; financing issues; Medicare and Medicaid; insurance reimbursement; compliance with anti-fraud and abuse laws; tax issues; participation in public "safety net" health systems; privacy of medical information; and sponsored research, clinical trials, and research compliance. We often are called on to represent hospitals on innovative, cutting-edge transactions and initiatives.

• Ranked number one in PLC's Life Sciences Regulatory and Industry Super Leagues, 2012
• Ranked number one in the District of Columbia for healthcare and healthcare: pharmaceutical/medical products, Chambers USA, 2012
• Ranked first tier in life sciences, Chambers Global, 2012
• Ranked second tier in life sciences (nationwide), Chambers USA, 2012

• Isabel P. Dunst, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Marcy Wilder, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Darrel J. Grinstead, Chief Counsel to the Health Care Financing Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Sheree Kanner, Chief Counsel to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Clifford D. Stromberg, Deputy Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Robert F. Leibenluft, Assistant Director for Health Care, the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition; Chair of the Health Care and Pharmaceuticals Committee, ABA Section of Antitrust Law
• Barbara Bennett, Associate General Counsel, Vanderbilt University; General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, TriPoint Health Group
• Helen Trilling, Special Assistant to three consecutive General Counsels, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Assistant General Counsel, Blue Cross Blue Shield Massachusetts
• Mark Sterling, General Counsel and Secretary and later Senior Vice President for Strategic Development and Special Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, Vitas Healthcare Corporation
• Jonathan Diesenhaus, Senior Trial Counsel in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he focused on the Stark Law, the healthcare anti-kickback statute, and the False Claims Act
• Carol Licko, General Counsel to Florida Governor Jeb Bush
• Michael Levinson, M.D., J.D., Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President, and General Counsel of two technology-driven medical device companies
• Mitchell Lazris, Trial Attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Fraud Section
• Reed Stuntz, 17 years on the staff of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, including seven years for the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and 10 years as Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel to ranking Democrat John Dingell
• Steve Immelt, Ty Cobb, Peter Spivack, Michael Theis, and 10 other Assistant U.S. Attorneys, many of whom spend most or all of their time on healthcare matters
• Craig Smith, General Counsel, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration

• Adventist Health System
• Advocate Health System
• American Hospital Association
• Baptist Health South Florida
• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Emory Healthcare
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Methodist Hospital (Memphis)
• University of Cincinnati Health Systems