McCandlish Holton has a strong health care law practice covering a wide range of issues affecting the health care delivery system. We serve as counsel to hospitals and hospital systems, long-term care facilities, physicians, payors, health maintenance organizations, and various joint ventures among participants in the health care marketplace.

Health Care Corporate and Tax Practice
McCandlish Holton provides strategic business and tax advice to our health care clients. We counsel clients with respect to acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, restructuring and raising capital. Health Care Team lawyers have extensive experience in structuring group practices and joint ventures among physicians and hospitals or other health care institutions. We also have significant experience representing tax-exempt health care organizations in obtaining and maintaining their tax-exempt status.

Health Care Regulatory and Administrative Issues
Health care providers are subject to regulation by a large number of administrative agencies at the state and federal levels. McCandlish Holton represents health care clients in working with these agencies in the following areas:

• Certificates of Public Need
• Medicare and Medicaid Payment disputes
• Licensure and certification disputes
• Managed care/insurance regulation
• Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse compliance
• Antitrust compliance
• OSHA
• Department of Labor issues

The firm has a successful health planning and policy practice, with particular expertise in the Certificate of Public Need process. We handle third-party reimbursement issues involving Medicare, Medicaid, and private third-party insurers, including recoupment actions and administrative appeals of adverse payment determinations at the state and federal levels. We also routinely advise clients about the reimbursement-related implications of proposed ventures. McCandlish Holton complements its administrative and regulatory expertise with a strong legislative presence.

Facility Operational Issues
McCandlish Holton has represented both parties in relationships between medical staff members and health care institutions. We often advise hospitals and physicians on questions relating to the credentials or discipline of medical staff members, as well as on questions relating to the composition of medical staffs, hospital-based physician contracts, and other medical staff issues. The firm has experience in consultation and litigation with respect to medical staff antitrust issues.

Medical Campus Development
McCandlish Holton offers unique interdisciplinary services that help our clients understand the complex opportunities associated with medical campus development. We have years of health care and real estate experience, and our integrated approach equips our clients with the tools they need to ensure the success of their projects. For more information on our Medical Campus Development Practice Group, please click here.