BUSINESS DEPARTMENT   |   Health Care

In today’s society, providing health care services requires a strong connection with legal advisors who can consistently provide timely, accurate and cost effective advice on various and often complicated legal issues affecting this highly regulated industry. Offit Kurman’s Health Care Practice Area team consists of lawyers who possess a highly developed understanding of the intricacies of and interrelationships among employment law, litigation, corporate law and health care regulations. The Health Care Practice Area serves as the first and often primary resource for the legal needs of our clients who are health care professionals.

Offit Kurman’s Health Care Practice Area attorneys work closely with physicians, dentists and other health care professionals of all specialties on a wide range of legal and business matters. These attorneys are also well integrated within the firm’s other Practice Areas (i.e., Asset Protection, Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment, Business Transactions and Intellectual Property), which provides the firm with ability to advise our clients on a wide range of legal matters affecting health professionals, including the formation, purchase and sale of practice groups, employment contracts and human resource services, provider licenses, certification and accreditation, medical staff credentialing and corrective action, Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, HIPAA, medical records and informed consent issues, real estate purchasing, leasing and financing and asset protection services. More specifically, attorneys in Offit Kurman’s Health Care Practice Area have significant experience in the following areas:

• Purchase and Sale of Practices and Practice Groups
• Practice Buy-Ins and Exits
• Employment Contracts for Health Care Professionals
• Medical Staff Credentialing/Corrective Action Issues
• Disputes with Insurers
• Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Issues
• HIPAA advice
• Purchase, Lease and Finance of Real Estate and Equipment
• Litigation related to Health Care Practices and Professionals

For further information regarding the Health Care Practice Group, contact Stephen H. Kaufman by email at skaufman@offitkurman.com or by phone at 443.738.1511.