Health care law is a rapidly evolving, complex field. Archer approaches its practice in this area by applying such a multidisciplinary approach, joining the experience of health care lawyers from the firm’s litigation, business counseling/tax, labor and real estate departments whose practice has a special emphasis on health care issues. Our health care practice provides team oriented services to fit the needs of corporations (both for profit and nonprofit) and for individuals. Archer’s health care lawyers represent clients from all segments of the health care industry, from serving as physician attorneys, to representing hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living residences and other retirement communities, medical staffs, home care and nursing providers, adult medical day care centers, ambulatory care and federally qualified health centers, rehabilitation centers and facilities for the developmentally disabled, as well as providers of other ancillary health care services.
Our Broad-Based Health Care Services Include:
Administrative health care law – licensing (including certificates of need); representation before professional boards (licensing, compliance and disciplinary issues); representation before regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies (hearings and other compliance proceedings).
White collar criminal issues – We serve as health care fraud lawyers in defense of cases including representation of corporations and individuals in state and federal grand jury investigations, representation in HHS/OIG investigations and corporate internal investigation, including whistleblower allegations.
Complex regulatory issues – We serve as medical compliance lawyers in a variety of sectors, like corporate compliance including antitrust compliance and review; environmental counseling and compliance (including medical waste disposal); insurance. We also serve as Medicare fraud defense attorneys, and handle issues involving Medicare and Medicaid abuse counseling.
Business Counseling – formation of nonprofit corporations; limited liability companies; professional corporations; partnerships; integrated delivery systems (PPOs, IPAs, joint ventures, HMOs, MSOs); ongoing corporate compliance review; general counseling (bylaws preparation, including medical staff bylaws); procedures; contract preparation and review (including negotiation of managed care agreements); business planning; transactional (acquisitions; buy/sell; dissolution); securities (public and private offerings; opinions); protection of intellectual property, corporate healthcare fraud.
Taxation – general counseling specific to the needs of health care providers; employee -independent contractor issues; special emphasis on nonprofit tax counseling and compliance (including CEP audits and unrelated business issues).
Labor – We have health care labor lawyers to handle a range of issues, such as: union organizing in health care providers; administrative health care law compliance (FMLA; ADA; OSHA; Federal and State wage and hour; other federal and state discrimination laws); general labor counseling (handbooks; drug testing; other policies and procedures); ERISA Real Estate -transactional and land use issues that pertain to the construction and expansion of health care facilities.
Other Medical/Legal – We serve as hospital/medical staff relations lawyers, and handle hospital/medical staff hearings; bioethics (including advance directives); patient rights; medical malpractice; risk management counseling; insurance coverage disputes; provider/insurer controversies; reimbursement.
Litigation – health care litigation support in all areas in trial and appellate courts as well as administrative agencies: such as antitrust; guardianships; patients rights; medical staff discipline; licensure; insurance coverage; medical malpractice; discrimination; unfair labor practices; contracts; corporate and partnership dissolution; intellectual property. One of our members is a former federal prosecutor who has extensive experience in health care fraud related matters. Our attorneys also have experience in alternative dispute resolution.
Tax-exempt Financing – disclosure agreements applicable to health care providers; extensive experience in all issues relating to qualified 501(c)(3) bonds.
Members of Archer’s health care law group are committed to sharing their experience in service to the community and the bar. One of our members has recently been the Chair of the Health and Hospital Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Two of our members have served as the Board Chairmen of the largest university affiliated tertiary care hospital and the largest multi-division community hospital system in Southern New Jersey. Another is on the board of a major continuing care/nursing facility and another has served as Vice-Chair of a facility for the handicapped. Our attorneys have written and lectured in the field for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education and other organizations.
Archer maintains an extensive in-house health care library and computer researching capability that allows its healthcare attorneys to keep constantly abreast of developments and issue appropriate updates on those developments to its clients.
