Health Care

Thompson Coburn LLP’s (Thompson Coburn) Health Care Practice offers a full range of legal services to health care providers, payors and related businesses. Our practice is comprised of a core of corporate and litigation attorneys who specialize in handling the myriad of complex legal issues facing the health care industry. We are positioned to offer comprehensive legal advice and develop creative legal solutions to meet the unique needs of each of our clients in areas that include:

• Antitrust
• Certificate of need/licensure issues
• Community Health Centers
• Corporate compliance
• Corporate responsibility and ethics
• EMTALA
• Fraud and abuse/physician self-referral
• Government investigations
• Health system restructuring
• HIPAA privacy and security
• Litigation
• Managed care
• Medical staff issues
• Medicare, Medicaid and private payor reimbursement
• Mergers, acquisitions, affiliations and joint ventures
• Physician practice issues
• Provider contracts
• Patient care issues
• Self-insurance and risk management programs
• Tax-exempt organization issues
• Related Services

Many other Thompson Coburn attorneys have significant experience representing various types of health care clients in areas such as:

• Tax
• Labor and Employment
• Employee Benefits
• Environmental
• Intellectual Property
• Real Estate

Health Care Law Alerts

• Do Your Contractors Know About Your False Claims Education Policy?  May 2007
• Physician Practice News  October 2006
• The Heat Is On … Nonprofit Hospitals Under Fire Again  June 2006
• “DEFRA” May Require Changes to Your Compliance Program, Training Materials and Employee Handbooks  April 2006
• HIPAA Update:  CMS Issues New Guidance On Subpart NPIs  February 2006