Healthcare Business

The healthcare sector may be unique in that it touches all consumers. That presents healthcare providers with growing opportunities as well as significant challenges. As those opportunities and challenges have expanded, Cohen & Grigsby’s Healthcare Business Group has grown apace. Today, we offer one of the most progressive healthcare practices in the country. Our attorneys understand the boldest strokes and the most subtle nuances of the sector, enabling us to add considerable value for our clients.

We offer a comprehensive package of legal services to for-profit and not-for-profit entities as well as individuals active in the healthcare marketplace. Our clients include hospitals and health systems, long-term care and assisted living facilities, home care providers, physicians and other healthcare practitioners, ancillary service providers, healthcare insurers, trade organizations and vendors of healthcare products and services. Our attorneys regularly provide counsel on:

·        Antitrust issues

·        Compliance programs

·        Construction contracts

·        Corporate governance

·        Corporate structures and reorganizations

·        Executive compensation

·        Financings and refinancings

·        Fraud and abuse claims and investigations

·        Healthcare insurance matters

·        Immigration

·        Issuance of securities

·        Joint ventures

·        Labor and employment

·        Licensure matters

·        Litigation

·        Managed care programs

·        Management contracts

·        Medical staff credentialing and fair hearings

·        Mergers, acquisitions and affiliations

·        Physician organizations

·        Physician practice acquisitions

·        Physician contracting

·        Real estate transactions

·        Regulatory matters and administrative proceedings

·        Reimbursement appeals

·        Securing and maintaining federal, state and local tax exemptions

·        Software licensing

·        Technology transfer

·        Trademark, trade name and trade secret protection

Centers of Excellence

As part of Cohen & Grigsby’s “Culture of Performance,” our firm is committed to extraordinary client service. That commitment is embodied in the “Centers of Excellence” created by our Healthcare Business Group to provide more focused, more layered services in key areas of the discipline. Our Centers of Excellence include:

Labor and Employment Center of Excellence

In our representation of hospitals, long-term care facilities and other institutional providers in general healthcare and labor and employment matters, we have achieved an unmatched record of success in EEOC, PHRC, NLRB, Wage and Hour, Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Compensation proceedings, as well as in trials in state and federal courts. 

Finance Center of Excellence

Through our Finance Center of Excellence, we represent hospitals, other healthcare organizations and financial institutions as bond counsel and institutional counsel in the issuance of variable and fixed-rate, credit-enhanced and non-credit enhanced, taxable and tax-exempt bonds for capital and refinancing purposes. Our experience in this specialized field significantly enhances access to capital markets for our clients.

Litigation Center of Excellence

Our healthcare litigation team effectively combines highly refined skills in healthcare and litigation, providing optimal results for our clients. Representative cases include:

·        Construction disputes

·        Contract claims

·        Discrimination cases

·        Insurance coverage disputes

·        Medical staff disputes

·        Medicare/Medicaid fraud and False Claims Act proceedings

·        Professional liability claims

·        Reimbursement matters

Adding Value for Clients

Adding value for clients is another tenet of our “Culture of Performance”, and our Healthcare Business Group accomplishes this goal in a variety of ways. Many of our attorneys participate actively in community-based activities aimed at reshaping the local healthcare marketplace, and many serve as board members for healthcare entities. In addition, our attorneys have worked as staff counsel for government agencies and as in-house counsel for healthcare clients on a subcontract basis.  The multidisciplinary background of our attorneys provides us with keen insight into the needs and objectives of our healthcare clients.

We regularly speak and write on healthcare issues, most notably in Cohen & Grigsby’s quarterly client newsletter, which includes an insert devoted to healthcare issues.  We frequently publish articles in national and local healthcare journals.

Our attorneys are members in significant health law trade groups and associations, such as the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Society of Healthcare Risk Management, the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania, the Health Executive Forum, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American College of Healthcare Administrators, the American Society of Healthcare Human Resource Administrators, the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, the American Healthcare Association, the Assisted Living Association of America and the Health Law sections of the American, Pennsylvania, Florida and Allegheny County bar associations.

Contact Us

We invite you to contact any of the attorneys in our Healthcare Business Group to discuss the value we can add to your organization.