Health Care

Business Growth, Transactions, and Strategic Partnerships

• Represented Aya Healthcare in its $615-million merger with Cross Country Healthcare (Nasdaq: CCRN), creating one of the nation’s largest healthcare workforce solutions companies.
• Represented the largest privately held nurse staffing company in its $40-million acquisition of a national provider of healthcare workforce solutions.
• Represented a medical supply company in its $160-million sale to a leading healthcare-focused private equity firm.
• Represented a behavioral health company in its $33-million sale to a leading private equity firm.
• Represented a multi-state healthcare company in more than 75 acquisitions to consolidate professional practices across the medical sector.

Regulatory Compliance, Privacy, and Risk Management

• Counseled healthcare providers, managed care organizations, tribal health clinics, specialty laboratories, medical groups, and medical device companies on HIPAA, fraud and abuse, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Medicare and Medicaid, and other healthcare regulatory requirements.
• Advised healthcare providers responding to government audits, investigations, and False Claims Act matters, including internal compliance reviews and corrective action programs.
• Represented a rehabilitation center in litigation involving privacy violations and claims under California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA).

Healthcare Technology and Intellectual Property

• Represented a publicly traded healthcare technology company in a trade secret dispute against a former employee who started a competing business, achieving a favorable settlement before trial.
• Represented medical device companies in patent litigation and intellectual property disputes involving innovative healthcare technologies.
• Counseled healthcare technology companies on privacy, commercial contracting, intellectual property protection, and software-related disputes.

Workforce, Employment, and Operations

• Defended healthcare employers in employment litigation involving wage and hour, labor, and workforce management issues.
• Defended a claim for retaliation and tortious interference by a medical director, including securing a favorable jury verdict upheld on appeal, one of many retaliation cases.
• Advised healthcare employers on workforce compliance, employment counseling, labor relations, and workplace investigations affecting day-to-day operations.

Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution

• Served as lead counsel for a healthcare entity in a major whistleblower case under California Health & Safety Code section 1278.5, achieving a favorable settlement on the eve of trial.
• Represent healthcare entities in complex commercial litigation involving breach of contract, fraud, technology, and other business disputes.

What types of companies do you represent in the healthcare industry?

We represent companies and organizations across the healthcare ecosystem, including healthcare technology and software companies, healthcare staffing businesses, medical device companies, behavioral health providers, managed care organizations, tribal healthcare entities, investors, and other businesses that deliver, support, finance, and advance healthcare. Our multidisciplinary approach allows us to advise clients on the wide range of legal issues that arise as healthcare businesses grow and evolve.

When should a healthcare company involve legal counsel?

Healthcare companies often benefit from involving legal counsel before significant business, regulatory, or operational decisions are made. Whether entering a strategic transaction, implementing a new technology platform, responding to a regulatory issue, updating privacy practices, or expanding operations, early legal guidance can help identify risks, improve efficiency, and avoid costly problems later.

Why do healthcare companies need attorneys from multiple practice areas?

Legal issues in the healthcare industry rarely fall within a single discipline. A merger may involve corporate, employment, privacy, intellectual property, tax, and regulatory considerations. A new software platform may raise questions about HIPAA compliance, commercial contracting, data privacy, licensing, and cybersecurity. Our attorneys work together across practices to provide coordinated advice that reflects the realities of operating a healthcare business.

How do you help healthcare companies navigate HIPAA and other healthcare regulations?

Healthcare businesses operate within a complex regulatory environment that includes HIPAA, Medicare and Medicaid requirements, fraud and abuse laws, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and numerous state privacy and licensing requirements. We help clients build practical compliance programs, respond to government audits and investigations, evaluate operational risks, and adapt to evolving regulatory requirements.

We are developing healthcare technology. What legal issues should we be thinking about?

Healthcare technology companies often face overlapping legal issues involving privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, commercial contracting, artificial intelligence, and healthcare regulation. We help clients coordinate these issues so that technology, compliance, and business objectives support one another as products and services evolve.

We are acquiring or selling a healthcare business. What legal issues are unique to healthcare?

Healthcare transactions often involve regulatory, privacy, employment, reimbursement, compliance, and licensing considerations that extend beyond a traditional merger or acquisition. We work with buyers, sellers, investors, and management teams to identify healthcare-specific risks while helping transactions move efficiently.

What should we do if we receive a government audit or investigation?

Early legal guidance is often critical. We help healthcare clients respond to government audits, internal investigations, regulatory inquiries, and enforcement actions involving Medicare and Medicaid, HIPAA, fraud and abuse, privacy, and other healthcare compliance issues. Our goal is to help clients resolve issues efficiently while minimizing operational disruption.

Can you support both established healthcare companies and emerging businesses?

Yes. We advise organizations at every stage of growth, from emerging healthcare technology companies and venture-backed businesses to established healthcare providers, staffing companies, managed care organizations, and other mature enterprises. As businesses grow, we help coordinate legal support across corporate, regulatory, employment, privacy, intellectual property, litigation, and other disciplines.

How do you approach staffing and cost efficiency?

Healthcare companies often require advice across multiple legal disciplines, but not every matter requires a large legal team. We staff matters deliberately to align experience and cost with the client’s needs. Senior attorneys remain actively involved in strategy and key decisions while drawing on attorneys across the firm as specific issues arise.

When should a healthcare company consider changing or expanding its legal counsel?

Healthcare companies often outgrow legal relationships that were built around a single issue or practice area. As organizations expand, complete acquisitions, implement new technologies, enter new markets, or face increasing regulatory complexity, they may need counsel that can coordinate advice across corporate, regulatory, privacy, employment, intellectual property, litigation, tax, and other disciplines.
Many of our clients come to us when they need a more integrated legal team that understands both the business of healthcare and the regulatory environment in which it operates. We work alongside in-house counsel and management teams, providing practical guidance that aligns legal strategy with business objectives while drawing on attorneys across the firm as new challenges emerge.