EpsteinBeckerGreen is a firm of approximately 350 attorneys with offices in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Stamford, Miami, and Newark and with firm affiliates or correspondent offices encompassing Hawaii, the Caribbean, Japan, Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany and Canada. The Firm is also a member of an international lawyers network that encompasses over 65 countries. The combination of affiliates and the international lawyers network, plus our own domestic offices, enables us to service the needs of our multinational clientele around the world.

The Health Care and Life Sciences Practice of EpsteinBeckerGreen consists of more than 100 attorneys serving, on a full-time basis, a wide spectrum of health care organizations, in capacities ranging from general counsel to special counsel on particular complex issues. It is one of the largest health care and life science practices in the United States. Its clients include health care companies such as pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, hospitals and hospital systems, health maintenance organizations, long-term care and retirement facilities, preferred provider organizations, ambulatory care facilities, retail pharmacies, laboratories, home care device and service supply companies, multi-specialty physician group practices, and utilization review organizations. The Firm furnishes advice and guidance to insurance companies on health care-related issues and also represents state and national trade associations and professional societies active in health care policy issues. Our client roster is representative of the complete array of industry interests: proprietary, voluntary and governmental.

The Firm's representation of its health care clients covers all aspects of the law affecting those entities. Specifically, EpsteinBeckerGreen provides advice with respect to general corporate matters (including acquisitions and reorganization), tax matters (including tax-exempt issues), labor, employment and immigration matters, real estate and facility construction matters, and capital finance.

These health care lawyers also address coding, coverage and payment under private and government health benefits programs. These lawyers frequently address federal and state health regulatory matters. The Firm has extensive experience in medical staff issues, peer review matters, hospital contracts, and faculty practice arrangements for hospital and hospital-sponsored group practices.

In addition, we regularly advise governments and entities on a national and international level. For example, we provide counsel to: (i) U.S. companies providing health care products in other countries; (ii) international companies providing health care products in the U.S.; and (iii) foreign countries and entities in their domestic health care issues.

Due to EpsteinBeckerGreen's experience in helping to create the managed care market in the U.S., we are often called upon to evaluate managed care opportunities in other countries. In such situations, we provide legal and strategic advice and counseling including providing legal feasibility analyses which identify impediments and barriers to entry to managed care initiatives, and developing the regulatory or corporate structure to overcome those barriers. We also are called upon to negotiate managed care joint ventures, where we prepare and negotiate agreements to establish and operationalize managed care joint ventures.

EpsteinBeckerGreen health care lawyers also are extremely knowledgeable about Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. federal government health benefit entitlement programs. Their experience has been invaluable in other countries where the central government is the major purchaser of health benefits for its citizens but which may want to inject some competition into the health care marketplace. EpsteinBeckerGreen provides value-added services to its clients because its health attorneys understand the legal and strategic issues necessary to enhance the likelihood of developing and operating successful managed care ventures – knowledge we have gained through our experience in advising clients who launched the U.S. managed care market.

EpsteinBeckerGreen is the exclusive law firm patron for the Annual International Summit on the Private Health Care Sector. Several of our health care lawyers, including Steven Epstein, Lynn Shapiro Snyder, Clifford Barnes and Carrie Valiant have participated in the Academy's health care trade mission, including missions to Argentina, 2005; Hong Kong, 2004; Sweden, 2004; Spain, 2000; Brazil, 1999; Israel, 1997; South Africa, 1997 and Belgium, 1995.