Health Care
The HIPAA Act privacy requirements, Stark prohibitions, and credential and licensing laws are just a few of the compliance hurdles that health care providers face. Our health care attorneys use decades of experience and a strategic approach to tackle these and other issues for clients.
In such a highly regulated industry, it's increasingly important to have skilled legal guidance. Shutts & Bowen has seasoned veterans who routinely advise large hospital groups, medical centers, clinics, nursing homes, physicians and other health care providers and suppliers.
Over the years, our attorneys have helped clients steer clear of compliance, transaction and litigation problems that have impacted others in the industry. And we've helped them grow. With experience in finance and mergers and acquisitions, we've helped companies expand and reorganize. We also protect their businesses in disputes and actions of all kinds, from disciplinary proceedings to EEOC charges and federal court trials. Overall, clients get extensive industry experience, backed by our legal resources in areas such as corporate finance, government law, insurance, labor, litigation, securities and taxation.
Payment Suspension - Our firm often significantly diminishes the duration of Medicare payment suspensions, thereby allowing clients who are heavily reliant on Medicare to stay in business. Without our guidance and counsel, the suspensions are typically enforced for the maximum period of one year, which many businesses could not survive.
Medicaid Overpayment Determinations - Medicaid periodically conducts audits and assesses overpayment determinations for services provided as late as several years in the past. Due to the agency's methodologies, initial determinations can be significant and even exorbitant. If not handled correctly, providers will typically pay a much larger penalty than actually warranted.
