Healthcare Business Through its Healthcare Practice Group, Cohen & Grigsby offers a comprehensive package of legal services to entities (both for-profit and not-for-profit) and individuals active in the healthcare marketplace.
Client Profile
The Group’s 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. Representative Services
Consistent with Cohen & Grigsby’s mission of excellence in the provision of legal services to businesses and business persons, the Healthcare Practice Group assists its clients in all aspects of their operations. Among the areas regularly covered are:
- Antitrust advice
- Compliance programs
- Construction contracts
- Corporate governance
- Corporate structures and reorganizations
- Executive compensation
- Financings and refinancings
- Fraud and abuse counsel 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
In addition to our general healthcare practice, Cohen & Grigsby offers highly refined services through several Centers of Excellence within the Healthcare Practice Group.
Labor and Employment
Cohen & Grigsby represents scores of hospitals, long-term care facilities and other institutional providers in general healthcare and labor and employment matters and has achieved an unmatched record of success in EEOC, PHRC, NLRB, Wage and Hour, Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Compensation proceedings, as well as in trials before state and federal courts. Our highly skilled team of healthcare attorneys offers expert advice and counsel on all labor and employment matters of significance to our healthcare clients.
Finance
Cohen & Grigsby has experience in representing hospitals, other healthcare organizations and financial institutions as bond counsel and institutional counsel in the issuance of variable and fixed rate, credit enhanced and not credit enhanced, taxable and tax exempt bonds for capital and refinancing purposes. Our experience greatly facilitates our healthcare clients’ ability to effectively access capital markets. Litigation
Our healthcare litigation team effectively combines the Firm’s highly refined skills in healthcare and litigation, which provides 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
Cohen & Grigsby has one of the most substantial healthcare practices in the country. We understand the healthcare business, and insist that we keep abreast of all developments in the industry. Among the unique benefits and value we provide are the following:
- Our attorneys possess multi-disciplinary backgrounds in healthcare. Some members of our Healthcare Practice Group are active participants in community-based activities aimed at reshaping the local healthcare marketplace, and many of the Firm’s attorneys serve as board members for various healthcare entities. Similarly, our attorneys have worked as staff counsel for government agencies and as in-house counsel for healthcare clients on a subcontract basis. Our background provides a unique perspective concerning the inner workings of our healthcare clients. We understand their wants, desires, needs, and objectives, which facilitates our effectiveness.
- Our attorneys regularly speak and write on healthcare issues. The Firm publishes a quarterly newsletter for our clients which includes an insert devoted to healthcare issues. We regularly publish articles in national and local healthcare publications. We conduct an annual comprehensive healthcare and labor and employment law update for our healthcare clients.
- Our healthcare 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 and the Health Law Sections of the American, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations.
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