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.
In addition, as employers across the health care industry implement policies and guidelines relating to vaccinations and a safe work environment, and prepare for similar circumstances in the future, they benefit from our in-depth knowledge of both employment and heath care law.
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, 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 a 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 in Health Care, 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 program, 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
Past Events
Insights
Insights
- BlogsWarning - Transaction Delays Expected. State Notice Requirements Ahead for Health Care M&A!8 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Awards 2023 Annual Core Values Champions4 minute read
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- BlogsNew York Aims to Bolster Hospital Cybersecurity with Imminent Release of Proposed Regulations3 minute read
- PublicationsBraidwood v Becerra’s Vaccine Access Threat3 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Six Epstein Becker Green Attorneys Named to the 2023 Mid-South Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
10 minute read - Media CoverageAmy Lerman Featured on Podcast: “Navigating the Telehealth Landscape for 2024”1 minute read
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- BlogsThe Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (“GUIDE”) Model9 minute read
- BlogsAbortion Rights to Be Codified in Ohio State Constitution4 minute read
- PublicationsTelemental Health Laws: 2023 Overview10 minute read
- Firm Announcements2023 Telemental Health Regulations Chart New Course in Post-PHE World5 minute read
- BlogsJust Released: Telemental Health Laws – Download Our Complimentary Survey and App3 minute read
- BlogsUnpacking Averages: Sample Size for Clinical Trials Used to Obtain FDA Medical Device Clearance13 minute read
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- BlogsDOJ Brings Second Criminal Charges Related to Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment9 minute read
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- Media CoverageRichard Hughes Quoted in “An R.S.V. Shot for Infants Is in Short Supply. Here’s What to Know”4 minute read
- PublicationsWhat to Know About the New DOJ Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Safe Harbor Policy for Voluntary Self-Disclosures Made in ...1 minute read
- BlogsDr. Jack of All Trades? OCR’s New Telehealth Guidance Suggests High Expectations on Providers5 minute read
- PublicationsCalifornia Enacts Statute That Furthers Efforts to Move Toward a Unified Health Care Financing System11 minute read
- PublicationsFTC and DOL Sign MOU for Cooperation2 minute read
- BlogsWhat Healthcare Entities Need to Know About the New DOJ M&A Voluntary Self-Disclosure Safe Harbor Policy8 minute read
- BlogsDEA Issues Second Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Prescribing Flexibilities, Through 20244 minute read
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- PublicationsBeyond Civil Enforcement2 minute read
- BlogsNavigating the New New York Department of Health Regulation on Facility Fees9 minute read
- Media CoverageRobert Wanerman Quoted in “Fight Over Medicare Pay Hinges on Primary Care”4 minute read
- Media CoverageEmma Pelkey Featured in “People on the Move”1 minute read
- BlogsHHS Recommends Re-Classification of Marijuana as a Schedule III Controlled Substance – A Bellwether for the Future of ...5 minute read
- PublicationsRichard Hughes, Devon Minnick Discuss Reforms of the US Preventive Services Task Force’s Processes3 minute read
- BlogsUnpacking Averages: How Accurate Do Class II Medical Devices Need to Be to Obtain 510(k) Clearance?13 minute read
- BlogsFDA Issues Final Guidance on Informed Consent for IRBs, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors4 minute read
- BlogsCMS Names Its First Ten Negotiated Part D Drugs: Inflation Reduction Act Updates11 minute read
- BlogsPodcast: Owner’s Outlook: Managing Risks in an Ever-Changing Construction Environment – Diagnosing Health Care3 minute read
- BlogsTexas Federal Court Issues Fourth Ruling Invalidating Parts of the Administration’s No Surprises Act Regulations ...3 minute read
- BlogsNew York State OMIG Makes Regulatory Modifications to Compliance Program Requirements7 minute read
- Media CoverageSharon Peters Featured in “People on the Move”1 minute read
- BlogsNew York Cannabis Lawsuit Overview and Possible Effects on the Much-Anticipated Adult-Use Cannabis License Application ...5 minute read
- BlogsSuperValu’s Effect on the FCA Scienter Standard and Impact to Future Litigation5 minute read
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- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Receives New York Law Journal’s 2023 Innovation Award
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