Overview
To entities and individuals operating within the health care industry, Epstein Becker Green is a trusted and experienced business partner.
Since our founding, participants throughout the health care delivery system have relied on our sophisticated team and depth of experience as they grow and adapt within a highly regulated and rapidly changing environment. We guide clients through corporate transactions, health care regulatory compliance (including anti-kickback and Stark reforms), data privacy and cybersecurity protocols, government investigations, complex litigation, and much more.
Providers and payors value our extensive managed care experience, while venture capital and private equity funds seek our insight to evaluate health-related investment targets. As artificial intelligence, telehealth, and virtual solutions take center stage, we’re advising clients on safe and compliant ways to harness powerful technologies.
Our Team Sets Us Apart
As the country’s go-to health care practice, with approximately 150 lawyers fully focused on health care law, we know the industry inside and out. Our practice includes attorneys with real-world experience as former high-level government officials and health care industry in-house counsel. Our team has a diverse range of experience in corporate transactions (including pre- and post-acquisition compliance due diligence), fraud and abuse, government investigations, reimbursement, managed care, antitrust, tax, ERISA, and litigation, and members collaborate to provide clients with creative solutions to new and novel issues with a cost-efficient approach.
Fostering Innovation with Creative Solutions
The virtual health markets are racing to keep up with demand. New digital health entrants from across the country are turning to Epstein Becker Green for strategic solutions to conceptualize, launch, and grow their cutting-edge platforms. We draw on our in-depth regulatory knowledge to explain the federal and state laws and regulations our clients need to care about as they develop their market presence. (For practitioners interested in the online delivery of behavioral health services, we continue to update our invaluable app, Telemental Health Laws, a comprehensive collection of state regulatory requirements for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.) With our guidance, clients are enabled and empowered to make confident business decisions.
Guiding Clients Through Health Care Reforms
With each presidential administration comes changes, opportunities, and challenges to the health care system. Epstein Becker Green continues to operate at the center of this ever-changing health care landscape, providing strategic advice to help clients navigate the intricate compliance mandates, enforcement actions, and policy changes impacting their operations. Our lawyers collaborate with colleagues from our affiliate, EBG Advisors, Inc., when necessary, to fulfill a client’s policy analysis, regulatory compliance, and other consulting needs.
Minimizing Client Risk with Effective Compliance Programs
Continued enforcement activity against health care organizations has placed a premium on sophisticated corporate compliance programs. Clients trust us to create and help them implement right-sized, effective corporate compliance programs before a governmental fraud investigation occurs. We design corporate compliance programs to conform to applicable federal and state laws and regulations but aligned with real-world operations and risks and adaptable as businesses grow. We also provide in-depth training for the client management teams and employees, addressing specific areas of vulnerability, program implementation, and ongoing oversight, when needed.
Defending Clients’ Interests in Government Investigations and Litigation
Government investigations and litigation in the health care industry are complex, high-stakes matters that typically involve business disruption and serious reputational and financial harm. Because we are knowledgeable, not just in government investigations and litigation but in all phases of health care financing, delivery, and reimbursement, we have the resources that frequently allow clients to resolve disputes with government agencies and payors at an early stage, often in conjunction with internal investigations that we conduct on behalf of management, boards of directors, and audit committees. Counting among our ranks former federal and state prosecutors, as well as lawyers with decades of health care litigation experience, we have accumulated an outstanding record of successes defending and resolving fraud and qui tam cases; regulatory inquiries; exclusion, debarment, and other administrative proceedings; and reimbursement, financing, and government contract-related matters.
Investing in the Future of Health Care
Our commitment to the health care industry extends far beyond our legal practice. Several team members have established nonprofit organizations devoted to improving the U.S. health care system. Lynn Shapiro Snyder founded the Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation, a premier national nonprofit organization of senior women health care industry executives. Carrie Valiant founded the Health Care Industry Access Initiative, which is dedicated to promoting collaborative action across the health care industry and improving access to health care coverage and services. In addition, Epstein Becker Green’s annual Health Law Writing Competition encourages law school students to prepare scholarly papers on current topics of interest relating to health law.
We also host the Future Lawyer’s Program for college students who are interested in pursuing a career in law or for students who have not decided but want to learn more about becoming a lawyer. These efforts, coupled with our 1L Diversity Pipeline and Summer Associates programs, continue to cultivate the next generation of health care leaders.
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Focus Areas
Services
- Antitrust
- Artificial Intelligence
- Behavioral Health
- Corporate Practice of Medicine
- Digital Health
- Federal and State False Claims Act (Including Qui Tam)
- Federal Research Grants: Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement
- Fraud and Abuse Compliance Counseling and Defense
- General Counsel Services
- Government and Commercial Coding, Coverage, and Payment
- Health Care and Life Sciences Investigations and Enforcement
- Health Care and Life Sciences Investor Services
- Health Care Construction Law
- Health Care Litigation
- Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions
- Health Insurance Exchanges
- Health Policy and Legislation
- Managed Care
- Medical Staff, Peer Review
- Medicare Advantage
- Mental Health Parity
- Opioids
- Stark and Self-Referral Laws
- Telehealth
- Value-Based Purchasing and Accountable Care
- White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations
Industries
- Academic Medical Centers
- Ambulatory Care Facilities
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cannabis
- Health Care Industry
- Health Plans and Other Insurers
- Home Health, Hospice & Community-Based Providers
- Hospitals and Health Systems
- Life Sciences Industry
- Medical Devices
- Pharmaceuticals
- Pharmacies
- Physician Group Practices/Management
- Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Providers
- Psychedelics
- Suppliers & Distributors
Experience
Our Team
Media
Events
Upcoming Events
- June 17 and 21, 2024
Past Events
- June 10-12, 2024
- Spring 2024
Insights
Insights
- PublicationsPart 2, Part Deux: New Rules for SUD Information Sharing2 minute read
- BlogsImportance of Negotiating Holdover Provisions in Health Care Leases4 minute read
- BlogsSupreme Court Rejects Challenge to FDA Approval of Mifepristone on Standing, but the Battle Continues9 minute read
- PublicationsClose of Comment Period for RFI on Consolidation in Health Care Markets2 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Receives National Recognition and Top Rankings in the 2024 Edition of Legal 500
3 minute read - Media CoverageJeremy Avila Featured in “People on the Move”1 minute read
- BlogsNew State Laws Requiring Notice of Health Care Transactions Will Uniquely Impact Distressed Transactions8 minute read
- PublicationsLeslie Norwalk Responds to Joint Agency RFI on Consolidation in Health Care Markets3 minute read
- BlogsInterested in Opening a Medical Spa? (Part II): Here’s (More) That You Need to Know7 minute read
- BlogsLouisiana Becomes First State to Classify Mifepristone and Misoprostol as Controlled Substances13 minute read
- PublicationsThe Supreme Court and the Future of Expert Preventive Recommendations2 minute read
- BlogsCalifornia’s Office of Health Care Affordability Kicks into Action: Are Organizations Ready for Increased Scrutiny in ...10 minute read
- PublicationsMajor Updates to Substance Use Disorder Treatment Confidentiality Requirements Increase Alignment with HIPAA but Raise ...2 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Requests Substantial Increase to FY 2025 Budget2 minute read
- BlogsHHS Publishes Final Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy10 minute read
- BlogsDOJ’s Antitrust Division Launches New Task Force to Target Health Care Monopolies and Collusion6 minute read
- BlogsColorado SB 24-205: Addressing AI Risk with Sweeping Consumer Protection Law15 minute read
- BlogsPodcast: Unveiling Gender-Affirming Care: Why It Matters and What’s at Stake – Diagnosing Health Care2 minute read
- PublicationsCorporate Practice of Medicine: A 50 State Survey2 minute read
- Media CoverageHoward Wall Featured in “Legal Notes”2 minute read
- BlogsImportance of Negotiating Maintenance, Repair and Replacement Obligations in Health Care Leases6 minute read
- BlogsUnpacking Averages: Assessing the Products Included in FDA's Voluntary Malfunction Summary Reporting Program11 minute read
- BlogsFederal Update on Cannabis Scheduling: Are State Legalized Cannabis Dispensaries to Become Pharmacies?7 minute read
- PublicationsState Supreme Courts and Ballot Initiatives: Arizona, Florida Exemplify the Abortion Battle Playing Out in the States ...14 minute read
- PublicationsFinal Medicaid Managed Care Rule Updates Requirements Regarding Access, Finance, and Quality17 minute read
- PublicationsCMS Finalizes Medicaid Access Rule: Significant Changes Ahead for HCBS Industry10 minute read
- PublicationsCMS Finalizes Rule Establishing Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities17 minute read
- PublicationsFederal Antitrust Enforcement Agencies Launch New Reporting Tool2 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsWelcome to Nashville: Epstein Becker Green Adds Howard T. Wall III as Of Counsel4 minute read
- Media CoverageKathleen Premo Quoted in “Four Tips for In-House Attorneys from Outside Counsel”3 minute read
- BlogsHHS Extends the Antidiscrimination Provisions of the Affordable Care Act to Patient Care Decision Support Tools, Including ...16 minute read
- BlogsMedical Clinic’s Use of NDAs to Suppress Negative Online Reviews Violates Federal Consumer Review Fairness Act ...9 minute read
- BlogsBreaking Down the Legal Challenges Surrounding State Licensure Restrictions for Telehealth Providers6 minute read
- Media Coverage
Kate Heffernan Featured in AHLA’s Speaking of Health Law Podcast, “Trends Related to Research Misconduct” ...
1 minute read - Media CoverageJenny Nelson Carney Discusses Effects of Emergency Abortion Care Case Set to Go Before U.S. Supreme Court3 minute read
- BlogsInterested in Opening a Medical Spa? Here’s What You Need to Know7 minute read
- PublicationsFive Commissioners and a Vote on Noncompetes to Come2 minute read
- BlogsSpilling Secrets Podcast: Navigating Physician Non-Compete Litigation3 minute read
- BlogsPodcast: Key Changes in Finalized Antitrust Merger Guidelines – Diagnosing Health Care2 minute read
- Media CoverageHelaine Fingold Quoted in “3 Years In, 'No Surprises' Gets Mixed Reviews from Providers”2 minute read
- PublicationsFood Is Medicine: The Road to Universal Coverage2 minute read
- BlogsUpdated Requirements for Informed Consent: HHS Issues New Guidance on Sensitive Exams4 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Fuels West Coast Momentum with Six-Attorney Health Care Team6 minute read
- BlogsImportance of Negotiating Assignment and Subletting Provisions in Health Care Leases5 minute read
- BlogsKentucky Law to Expand Assault in the Third Degree Beyond Healthcare Providers at Hospitals to Include Clinic, Dental ...4 minute read
- PublicationsAdvancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization: No One Said It Would Be Easy!18 minute read
- BlogsWorkplace Violence Prevention, State and Federal Legislation: Will Criminalizing Assaults in Health Care Facilities ...7 minute read
- BlogsPRF Update: HRSA Sends Out “Audit Reporting Requirement Attestation” Notice Mandating Quick Action3 minute read
- Media CoverageWes Scott Featured in "In Charge 2024: Finance"1 minute read
- PublicationsFTC Continues Investigation into PBM Practices2 minute read