Healthcare law focuses primarily
on the legislative, judicial, and executive rules & regulations governing
the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry includes the hospitals,
hospital systems, clinics, solo medical practitioners, and other healthcare
providers such as nursing homes, acute care center, and psychiatric centers,
pharmaceutical manufacturers, private and public insurers, etc. Some
regulations that are relevant to the healthcare industry include, HIPAA, Stark,
EMTALA, Anti-Kickback Statute, and other state privacy laws.
Healthcare lawyers generally
represent the clients in the healthcare industry where cases are in connection
with various general corporate matters such as corporate organizations,
employee benefits, antitrust issues, tax, general contract negotiation, and
capital financing. In addition to all this, healthcare lawyer Las Vegas often
provide their advice on physician recruitments, medical staff relationship
matters, and acquisition of healthcare practices. Healthcare lawyers provide
guidance in relation with Medicaid investigations, Medicare fraud, payment
issues, insurance regulation, HMO, health reform issues, and telemedicine.
Finally, healthcare lawyers also address risk management, confidentiality,
informed consent, and bio-ethical issues which include end-of-life
decision-making, healthcare decision-making, and assisted reproduction.
Healthcare lawyers generally
represent healthcare providers in front of state and federal agencies which
regulate the healthcare industry. Healthcare lawyers assist healthcare
providers in regards to various types of legal litigations, which include
medical malpractice, Medicaid investigations, abuse and fraud claims, antitrust
issues, intellectual property matters, breach of contract issues, real estate
issues, labor & employment disputes, and Medicare and Medicaid
reimbursements matters. A lot of healthcare lawyers often work for some of the
other law firms which has departments specializing in healthcare law.
