Overview
Today’s health care industry is driven by evolving policies, regulations, and enforcement actions, as well as technological innovations.
This landscape offers both obstacles and opportunities, and to thrive in it, businesses operating within the health care industry need experienced counsel to navigate the complex framework that governs their operations.
At Epstein Becker Green, we’ve been representing clients nationally across the health care spectrum since 1973. As one of the nation’s premier law firms in the health law field, with approximately 150 attorneys devoted to health care law nationwide, we are well equipped to address the unique challenges and opportunities the health care industry faces.
In an industry with so many interrelated disciplines, we have a multidisciplinary team to address virtually any issue that may arise on the compliance, defense, operational, and technological (including artificial intelligence (AI)) fronts. Our attorneys are supported by a close-knit network of consultants and technical advisors from our affiliate, EBG Advisors, Inc., many of whom have worked for health care organizations or government agencies—and in some cases both—as well as legislative and regulatory advocates from EBG Advisors' affiliate National Health Advisors.
Health Law Transactional and Regulatory Services
Our health care transactional attorneys regularly lead our clients through all manner of health-related issues, providing transactional, regulatory, and compliance counsel. We are frequently engaged in core “bet the ranch” matters, as well as matters requiring a high level of sensitivity and discretion. Our health care thought leaders supply innovative legal and business advice, effectively anticipating and guiding health care clients through the release of new regulations, closing vital transactions, launching new products, assessing potential acquisitions, and leading government investigations and actions, always with an eye on the long game to secure the best outcome for our clients’ business. Clients also rely on our health care transactional lawyers to help them navigate government payment programs, antitrust, clinical research, corporate, fraud and abuse, managed care, privacy and cybersecurity issues, and much more. We represent research institutions and academic medical centers, manufacturers and distributors, providers and payors, as well as investors and private equity firms looking to invest in health-related targets. We design and implement our clients’ compliance programs, conduct due diligence for their mergers, acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, and investments, as well as assist with their responses to investigations.
Litigation Services
We work with our health care clients to help them avoid litigation, and we vigorously defend them when lawsuits are unavoidable. Our litigation team, which includes members with high-level governmental prosecutorial backgrounds, has extensive experience representing health care clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts and before administrative and private tribunals in civil and criminal cases. Clients count on us to handle matters involving fraud and abuse, data breaches, and antitrust issues, among others.
Health Employment And Labor (HEAL®)
As the health care landscape continues to shift, so do the issues confronting employers in the health care industry. We created the HEAL® strategic industry group, which unites two of the firm’s practices—Health Care and Employment, Labor & Workforce Management—to help health care and life sciences companies address the many challenges they face in labor, employment, and workforce management. Clients value our cross-disciplinary legal and regulatory experience and our ability to provide comprehensive and practical solutions to complex employment problems.
Health care employers look to our HEAL® strategic industry group attorneys for advice on discrimination matters, employee benefits programs, immigration matters, labor-management relations, non-competition agreements, wage and hour compliance, whistleblower actions, and the use of AI in human resources and labor management decision-making. Members of the group also counsel health care clients on how to effectively handle U.S. Department of Labor policy changes, which are creating new liabilities for organizations operating in the health care industry and new requirements for labor and employment compliance.
Our Clients
All of our strengths are embodied in our representation of clients in the following fields, and more:
- Academic Medical Centers
- Ambulatory Care Facilities
- Clinical Laboratories
- Group Purchasing Organizations
- Health Plans and Other Insurers
- Health Care Technology Companies
- Home Health, Hospice & Community-Based Providers
- Hospitals and Health Systems
- Medical Device Manufacturers
- Pharmacies
- Physician Group Practices/Management
- Post-Acute and Long Term Care Providers
- Suppliers and Distributors
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- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “Balkanization of Vaccine Policy Raises Concerns About Vaccine Uptake, Insurance Coverage ...2 minute read
- BlogsOIG Says Medical Device Company's Proposal to Pay for Exclusion Screening for Customers May Violate the Anti-Kickback ...5 minute read
- PublicationsAgencies’ Listening Sessions to Focus on Lowering Drug Prices Through Competition2 minute read
- BlogsMaine and Oregon Join List of States Prohibiting the Reporting of Medical Debt on Consumer Reports4 minute read
- BlogsDOJ Civil Division Announces 2025 Priorities: Promises “Aggressive” False Claims Act Enforcement of Civil Rights ...6 minute read
- BlogsVideo: Workplace ICE Raids Are Surging—Here’s How Employers Can Prepare - Employment Law This Week2 minute read
- PublicationsSupreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care20 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Earns Top Honors in Legal 500 2025 for Excellence in Client Service and Achievements Across Key Health ...
3 minute read - BlogsHealthBench: Exploring Its Implications and Future in Health Care7 minute read
- Media CoverageAshley Creech Quoted in “Trump's Abortion Guidance U-Turn Sparks Legal Risks”2 minute read
- PublicationsCMS’ Pay-for-Performance Paradox3 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “How Kennedy’s Purge of Advisors Could Disrupt U.S. Vaccinations”2 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “New ACIP Members May Revisit Panel’s Prior Recommendations in Just Two Weeks”4 minute read
- BlogsNavigating the Legal Risks of Consumer Protection Claims in Healthcare7 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “RFK Jr.'s Rapid Vaccine Agenda Sets Stage to Chip Away at Shots”1 minute read
- Media CoveragePaul DeCamp Quoted in “Trump HR’s New Essay Question Risks Politicizing Federal Hiring”2 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “RFK Jr.’s Moves Leave Insurance Coverage of Vaccines in Doubt”2 minute read
- BlogsOregon SB 951, Regulating the Corporate Practice of Medicine, Is Signed into Law—But Changes May Be in the Works Already ...5 minute read
- BlogsCMS Doubles Down on Medicare Advantage Recoupment: Announces Aggressive RADV Strategy to Reclaim Billions18 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “Kennedy Announces Eight New Members of CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel”2 minute read
- PublicationsVaccine Policy in Crisis: Secretary Kennedy Dismisses Entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices3 minute read
- BlogsVideo: DOL Restructures - OFCCP on the Chopping Block as Opinion Letters Expand - Employment Law This Week2 minute read
- BlogsHealthBench: Advancing the Standard for Evaluating AI in Health Care4 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Advisory Overhaul Undermines Vaccine Confidence, Experts Say”7 minute read
- BlogsWhat Health Care Lawyers and Professionals Need to Know About Emerging Employee Benefit Issues9 minute read
- BlogsDistinguishing Deceptive Trade Practices From Negligent Care: Exploring the Boundaries Between Consumer Protection and ...7 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “Health Secretary RFK Jr. Abruptly Fires CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel”4 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “Big Bill, Big Coverage Losses: Vaccines–Codifying ACIP?”2 minute read
- PublicationsCommissioner Meador Dispels Myths About Antitrust Enforcement2 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Recognized by Chambers USA 2025 for Delivering Excellence on Behalf of Healthcare, Labor & Employment ...
5 minute read - BlogsOregon SB 951, Regulating the Corporate Practice of Medicine, Awaits Governor’s Signature9 minute read
- Media CoveragePaul DeCamp Quoted in “Injunctions Key Tool in W&H Fights, Birthright Case Illuminates”3 minute read
- PublicationsHHS Secretary Kennedy Told Us Not to Listen to Him. We Agree.2 minute read
- BlogsVideo: Abortion Protections Struck Down, LGBTQ Harassment Guidance Vacated, EEO-1 Reporting Opens - Employment Law This ...2 minute read
- Media CoverageHemant Gupta, Emma Pelkey Quoted in “Utah Targets Mental Health Chatbots as States Scrutinize AI”3 minute read
- Media CoverageSarah M. Hall Quoted in “Trump’s Focus on Medicare Advantage Fraud Poses Enforcement Test”3 minute read
- PublicationsAn Uncertain Vaccines Market Keeps Getting Dicier2 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “RFK Jr. Fires ‘Opening Salvo’ on Vaccine Status Quo”7 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “CDC Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots”2 minute read
- PublicationsPart IV—Why You Should Learn the Playbook: Regulatory Compliance and Related Issues in Distressed Health Care ...2 minute read
- Media CoveragePaul DeCamp Quoted in “DOL Wage Policy Team Brings Biz-Friendly Experience”3 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “CDC Recommends Parents Talk to a Doctor About Getting COVID-19 Shots for Kids”5 minute read
- PublicationsCMS Proposes to Close Perceived Loophole in Medicaid Health Care-Related Tax Regulations14 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Thirteen Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Named to the 2025 Washington, DC Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
6 minute read - Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “What to Know About COVID Vaccines for Children, Pregnant Women After RFK Jr.’s Change” ...7 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “RFK Jr. Puts Health Insurers in Limbo by Dropping Covid-19 Shot”5 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “Some 300 West Virginia School Vaccine Exemptions Granted Under New, Laxer Policy” ...3 minute read
- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “The FDA May Restrict Covid Shots. Who Will Be Able to Get Them?”2 minute read
- BlogsDOJ Civil Rights Fraud Initiative: FCA Enforcement Expanding Into Alleged Discrimination6 minute read
- BlogsDOJ Announces Initiative to Expand FCA Enforcement Into Alleged Discrimination6 minute read
Focus Areas
Services
- Academic and Clinical Research
- ADA and Public Accommodations
- Affirmative Action/OFCCP Compliance
- Antitrust
- Appellate
- Behavioral Health
- Business Torts, Competition & Trade Secrets
- Class Actions
- Commercial and Contract Litigation
- Corporate & Transactional
- Corporate and Securities Litigation
- Corporate Financing
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Practice of Medicine
- Corporate Reorganization
- Cross-Border Data Transfers
- Cross-Border Transactions
- Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
- Data Asset Management
- Data Breach and Incident Response
- Data Breach/Cybersecurity Investigations & Litigation
- Data Protection
- DEI Compliance and Legal Counseling
- Digital Health
- Drug and Medical Device Coding, Coverage, and Payment
- Employee Benefits and ERISA
- Employment Compliance Counseling
- Employment Litigation
- Employment Training
- Employment, Labor & Workforce Management
- ERISA – Retirement and Benefit Plan Litigation
- Executive Compensation
- Federal and State False Claims Act (Including Qui Tam)
- Federal Research Grants: Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement
- Financial Restructuring and Bankruptcy
- Foreign Multinational Counseling and Litigation
- Fraud and Abuse Compliance Counseling and Defense
- General Counsel Services
- Government and Commercial Coding, Coverage, and Payment
- Health Care
- Health Care and Life Sciences Investigations and Enforcement
- Health Care and Life Sciences Investor Services
- Health Care Litigation
- Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions
- Health Insurance Exchanges
- Health Policy and Legislation
- Immigration
- Insider Threats
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Interoperability
- Labor and Employment Due Diligence
- Labor Management Relations
- Life Sciences
- Litigation & Business Disputes
- Managed Care
- Medical Staff, Peer Review
- Medicare Advantage
- Mental Health Parity
- Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
- Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA)
- Opioids
- Pandemic Workforce Issues
- Pay Equity
- Privacy Compliance Strategies
- Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Asset Management
- Product Marketing and Compliance
- Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- Ransomware
- Real Estate
- Remote and Hybrid Work
- Social Media and the Workplace
- Stark and Self-Referral Laws
- State Privacy Law Compliance
- Tax and Tax-Exempt Counseling
- Telehealth
- Trade Secrets & Employee Mobility
- Value-Based Purchasing and Accountable Care
- Wage and Hour
- Whistleblowing and Compliance
- White Collar Defense and Internal Investigations
- Workforce Government Relations
- Workforce Restructuring and Other Cost-Saving Mechanisms
- Workplace Investigations
Industries
- Academic Medical Centers
- Ambulatory Care Facilities
- Cannabis
- Health Plans and Other Insurers
- Home Health, Hospice & Community-Based Providers
- Hospitals and Health Systems
- Life Sciences Industry
- Pharmacies
- Physician Group Practices/Management
- Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Providers
- Psychedelics
- Women’s Health and Wellness