HEALTH CARE LAW

Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP has a long and rich tradition of providing legal services to the health care industry. Our Health Care Law Department has strong ties to several large proprietary hospital chains and maintains ongoing relationships with a diverse mix of organizations and individuals in the health care field. Clients include hospitals (both acute and specialty), academic medical centers, home health agencies, ambulatory surgical centers, specialty providers, skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities, physicians, medical groups, reimbursement consultants, professional corporations and third-party administrators.

Among our health care attorneys are a former chief counsel for a NYSE health care organization and a former clinical social worker for a county health department and medical center.

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Services for the Health Care Industry

Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP's Health Care Law Department has an impressive track record in helping clients achieve their goals. For example, the firm has handled more than 100 acquisition and divestiture transactions of hospitals and/or health care systems, having an aggregate value well in excess of $12 billion.

Among the areas of expertise available in our Health Care Law Department are:

• Joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations
• Purchase, sale and lease of health care facilities
• Facility licensure and accreditation
• Project financing
• Fraud and abuse: Illegal remunerations, prohibited self-referrals, corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting issues
• Physician-hospital relationships including medical service, recruitment, directorship agreements, joint activities, space and equipment leasing
• Managed care and operational contracts
• Group practice - organization, maintenance and operation, including physician compensation and risk management
• Regulatory compliance and administrative litigation
• Professional discipline, including license revocations, medical staff privileges
• Utilization review and quality assurance
• Medical record confidentiality and informed consent
• Development and leasing of high-tech equipment
• Pharmaceutical services and supplies
• Health care-related litigation

Contact ECJ for Your Health Care Industry Needs

Keeping up and complying with the many changes in the health care legal arena requires experienced legal counsel. For more information about our Health Care Law Department or to speak with a health care lawyer at our office, please contact us.

Health Care Law Attorneys, serving clients in Los Angeles, the State of California and across the nation.