Health Care
PDFProfessionals
- Alice Pinckney Adams
- Lucas A. Anderson
- Carl S. Beattie
- Demi Lorant Bostian
- Patrick S. Bryant
- John H. Carmichael
- Matthew S. Churchill
- John M. Conley
- Stephen M. Cox
- Hana M. Crandall
- Cary B. Davis
- W. Scott Dove
- Richard C. Dunn
- Chelsea N. Evans
- Tenley F. Evans
- Stephen D. Feldman
- Alexa M. Fleming
- Robert W. Fuller
- John B. Garver III
- Megan Clemency Haynes
- Laurie Smith Helms
- Edward F. Hennessey IV
- Mark A. Hiller
- Susan M. Huber
- Alexis M. Iffert
- Charles E. Johnson
- Jonathan C. Krisko
- Richard L. Mack
- Mark W. Merritt
- Andrew T. Miller
- Katherine A. Moles
- Lawrence C. Moore III
- Amanda Fannin Rautalahti
- Allen K. Robertson
- Camila M. Rohena-Maldonado
- Jazzmin M. Romero
- Matthew W. Sawchak
- Gregory L. Skidmore
- Anatoly Solo
- Fara Soubouti
- Curtis C. Strubinger
- Rosemary Chandler Wells
- Ethan R. White
- David C. Wright III
- Jason L. Wright
- M. Bennett Wright
- Erik R. Zimmerman
Overview
Robinson Bradshaw's Health Care Practice Group comprises an interdisciplinary team of attorneys with the broad range of experience required to advise participants across today's complex health care environment. Our health care clients have seamless and cost-effective access to the firm's knowledge in all areas affecting the operation of their businesses, including corporate, tax, real estate and litigation. We have called upon this experience to serve a diverse group of clients, including Atrium Health (formerly Carolinas HealthCare System), Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Deerfield Management Co., Fresenius Medical Care North America, Horizon Eye Care, Labcorp, Mission Health and its successor Dogwood Trust, the National Board of Examiners in Optometry, Octapharma Plasma and US Radiology (formerly Charlotte Radiology).
As part of our commitment to the health care industry, we create resources to help our clients navigate legal intricacies, we serve in leadership positions with national and state organizations, and we regularly contribute our time as speakers and writers for these institutions. Robinson Bradshaw's resources include Stark on a Page®, Anti-Kickback on a Page®, Sunshine Act on a Page®, Management Services Organization Best Practice on a Page®, Contract Review 101 on a Page®, the Joint Venture Handbook and the Physician Practice Management Handbook.
Our Telehealth Industry Team regularly counsels providers, investors, organizations and other health care clients on a range of emerging regulatory and business issues affecting the telehealth industry – including compliance, risk management, data security and transactional matters.
Our Behavioral Health Industry Team has extensive experience advising and representing clients in the behavioral health care space. In particular, we have worked closely with a broad range of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health facilities and providers and with behavioral health professionals. In these engagements, we routinely handle matters involving corporate practice of medicine, fraud and abuse compliance and transaction structuring, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, health care marketing rules, HIPAA, corporate compliance programs, contracting, confidentiality and information sharing (including 42 CFR Part 2 confidentiality issues), and policies and procedures. We also represent a collaborative business venture between behavioral health providers in North Carolina pursuing innovation in care across the state.
We serve a variety of industry stakeholders, including:
- Hospitals and health systems
- Physician practices
- Specialty providers, including laboratories, dialysis, home health, long-term care and medical products
- Commercial insurers
- Business ventures between providers to own and operate health plans
- Clinically integrated networks
- Health care management companies
- Telemedicine and telehealth companies
- Pharmaceutical, pharma-contracting and genomics companies
- Investors, commercial lenders and underwriters in the health care industry
- Health care technology providers and vendors
We help clients with a broad range of legal needs, including:
- Acquisition and joint venture structuring and negotiation
- Due diligence for acquisitions and audit
- Regulatory compliance
- HIPAA and privacy compliance
- General litigation, including employment litigation
- Internal governance
- Billing self-disclosure and self-reporting
- Physician employment and affiliations
- Physician practice organization and management
- ACO, CIN, MSO, PHO formation and operation
- Medical staff credentialing and peer review
- Antitrust counseling
- Retirement and benefit plans
- Financing (including tax-exempt bonds), capital raises and reorganizations
- Real estate and zoning
- Tax-exemption compliance
Honors & Awards
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, health care, 2014-22
- U.S. News – Best Lawyers, Best Law Firms, Charlotte Tier 1 for health care law, 2011-23
Experience
Mergers and Acquisitions
Serve as lead counsel to an international public health care company in the closing of hundreds of dialysis clinic acquisitions and divestitures, physician practice acquisition and management transactions, strategic minority investments and care coordination activities.
Represented an international public health care company’s $385 million acquisition of a nationwide 30-facility vascular access business involving substantial business restructuring including joint ventures, management service organizations and employment arrangements.
Served as lead counsel for a large North Carolina health system in its acquisition, affiliation and/or management of multiple strategic hospital partners.
Represented an international public health care company in its $2 billion acquisition of a home dialysis equipment maker.
Represented a national operator of retirement communities in the sale of eight communities in four states to a publicly traded real estate investment trust.
Represented a North Carolina medical practice providing infertility services in a partial sale of their practice structured through a management services organization arrangement.
Joint Ventures
Serve as lead counsel to an international public health care company in the closing of hundreds of joint venture transactions, including dialysis clinic joint ventures, vascular access joint ventures and cardiac cath lab joint ventures.
Formed ESRD accountable care organizations in 24 major markets throughout the United States for the purpose of testing innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce dialysis medical costs while maintaining or improving the quality of care.
Represented two large physician practices in the Carolinas in the formation of separate joint ventures to monetize proprietary technology and services, which will be marketed to physician practices throughout the United States.
Represented an international public health care company in its efforts to partner with a North Carolina health care system to improve costs and quality of care for end-stage renal disease by developing and implementing a local care model, an integrated care network and a Medicare Advantage Chronic Special Needs Plan.
Represented a North Carolina orthopedic practice in structuring a joint venture to provide management services to orthopedic practices and hospital orthopedic service lines across the country.
Regulatory and Compliance
Provide strategic, operations and compliance counseling to hospitals and health systems and ancillary service providers in connection with federal and state surprise/balance billing and price transparency laws and initiatives.
Led health care due diligence review and analysis on behalf of an international public health care company for its $2 billion acquisition of a home dialysis equipment maker.
Assisted a large North Carolina health system and its multiple affiliated hospitals with compliance self-audits, acquisition due diligence, corrective actions and self-reporting, culminating in favorable resolutions under the CMS Stark Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol.
Conduct regulatory analysis for an international public health care company examining permitted parameters of physician ownership in equity joint ventures across the U.S. and recommend deal structure and best practices to address state-specific regulatory considerations.
Assessed the regulatory compliance of ESRD accountable care organizations with the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the federal Stark self-referral law and CMS waivers issued thereunder.
Represent a leading biologics firm in frequent regulatory investigations concerning compliance with state and FDA regulations, licensure requirements and disability accommodation laws.
Counsel and advise various health care provider clients on corporate practice of medicine rules, fee splitting, and other state regulatory and licensing requirements, and the development of state-specific management service organization structures.
Telehealth/Telemedicine
Counsel on federal and state telehealth laws and regulations as well as licensure requirements for health care professionals involved in the administration of telehealth.
Counseled a large physician practice regarding creation of remote physician workforce, including creating a blueprint of key regulatory and licensure issues.
Prepare and customize compliance programs (including telehealth informed consent documentation and operational plan development) for provider telehealth programs.
Advise and assist with drafting and negotiation of telehealth-related contract negotiations (e.g., with providers, payors and telehealth technology companies).
Risk Management and Litigation
Represent a large North Carolina health system in a class action alleging one of its hospitals routinely overcharges uninsured patients for emergency room care.
Represented a leading biologics firm in a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit involving a question of first impression concerning application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to FDA-mandated donor eligibility decisions.
Counsel various health care provider clients on a full range of employment law matters, including preparing and negotiating employment and independent contractor agreements; advising on day-to-day employment and human resource matters; and defending employment litigation and administrative charges before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, state and local deferral agencies, and federal and state departments of labor.
Represented a public health care system in successfully resolving a federal investigation regarding North Carolina’s Disproportionate Share Hospital Program.
Represented a regional hospital system and its executives in an action brought by a physician alleging termination in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and alleging multiple violations of North Carolina law.
Health Care Privacy and Security
Counsel a range of health care providers and health care IT, m-health, portal and medical payment companies on HIPAA and general telehealth compliance.
Counseled a large North Carolina health system with the rollout of an innovative wellness program focused on population health management, with the health system and local employers partnering to provide access to an existing licensed portal technology and offering the portal and other programming and resources to its own employee subscribers.
News & Events
News
- March 14, 2023
- Jan. 20, 2023
- Nov. 4, 2022
- Aug. 23, 2022
- Aug. 4, 2022
- June 2, 2022
- May 5, 2022
- March 31, 2022
- Jan. 14, 2022
- Jan. 4, 2022
- Dec. 10, 2021
- Nov. 18, 2021
- Aug. 26, 2021
- June 24, 2021
- May 21, 2021
- May 4, 2021
- March 23, 2021
- March 2, 2021
- Feb. 12, 2021
- Jan. 15, 2021
- Dec. 11, 2020
- Nov. 19, 2020
- Nov. 5, 2020
- Oct. 22, 2020
- Sept. 21, 2020
- Sept. 14, 2020
- Aug. 28, 2020
- Aug. 20, 2020
- July 9, 2020
- July 1, 2020
- April 30, 2020
- April 28, 2020
- April 2, 2020
- Feb. 26, 2020
- Jan. 22, 2020
- Nov. 1, 2019
- Aug. 15, 2019
- May 29, 2019
- May 6, 2019
- April 2, 2019
- March 29, 2019
- Feb. 26, 2019
- Feb. 26, 2019
- Jan. 28, 2019
- Jan. 14, 2019
- Jan. 7, 2019
- Nov. 1, 2018
- Oct. 24, 2018
- Aug. 15, 2018
- July 9, 2018
- July 6, 2018
- June 20, 2018
- May 31, 2018
- April 30, 2018
- April 24, 2018
- Jan. 30, 2018
- Jan. 9, 2018
- Nov. 2, 2017
- Oct. 25, 2017
- Aug. 22, 2017
- Eight Named “Lawyer of the Year”Aug. 16, 2017
- Aug. 10, 2017
- June 2, 2017
- May 31, 2017
- April 7, 2017
- Jan. 26, 2017
- Nov. 1, 2016
- Oct. 31, 2016
- Eight Attorneys Named "Lawyer of the Year"Aug. 15, 2016
- July 20, 2016
- June 2, 2016
- May 25, 2016
- Feb. 4, 2016
- Jan. 27, 2016
- Dec. 10, 2015
- Nov. 2, 2015
- Aug. 18, 2015
- May 28, 2015
- Jan. 21, 2015
- Jan. 5, 2015
- Rankings include recognition as a Tier 1 firm in 38 practice areas in CharlotteNov. 6, 2014
- Firm Topped North Carolina Rankings in Eight Practice AreasAug. 19, 2014
- Firm Has Most Charlotte Attorneys Named to List for Fourth Consecutive YearAug. 19, 2014
- July 9, 2014
- May 23, 2014
- April 23, 2014
- Jan. 21, 2014
- Rankings Include Recognition as Tier 1 Firm in 38 Practice Areas in CharlotteNov. 1, 2013
- Aug. 15, 2013
- July 22, 2013
- June 19, 2013
- Six Shareholders Among State’s Top 100 Attorneys, Two in Top 10Jan. 18, 2013
- Jan. 2, 2013
- Rankings Include Recognition as Tier 1 Firm in 35 Practice Areas in CharlotteNov. 1, 2012
- Oct. 29, 2012
- Aug. 23, 2012
- Dec. 28, 2011
- Nov. 1, 2011
- Sept. 1, 2011
- July 28, 2011
- Medical Practice Compliance Alert, June 27, 2011
- Charlotte-Based Firm Recognized in 26 Practice AreasSept. 15, 2010
- Aug. 9, 2010
- Aug. 10, 2009
- Sept. 19, 2008
- Sept. 7, 2007
- Sept. 6, 2006
Events
Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel
1 West Upper Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601Nov. 10, 2022North Carolina Bar Center
8000 Weston Parkway
Cary, NC 27511Oct. 21, 2022Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, GAOct. 4, 2022Benton Convention Center
301 W. Fifth St.
Winston-Salem, NC 27101Sept. 30, 2022- Presented by Robinson Bradshaw and PYA
Via webinar
May 11, 2022 Grand Hyatt Nashville
1000 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203April 26 and April 27, 2022Via webinar
March 29, 2022Via webinar
Jan. 28, 2022Virtual conference
Oct. 22, 2021Via webinar
Sept. 22, 2021Client presentation
July 13, 2021AHLA webinar
June 24, 2021Client webinar
May 7, 2021Via webinar
April 23, 2021- April 20, 2021
Via webinar
April 6, 2021i2i Center for Integrative Health webinar
Dec. 2, 2020AHLA Fundamentals of Health Law Conference
Nov. 13, 2020AHLA Fundamentals of Health Law Conference
Nov. 13, 2020Client webinar
July 21, 2020Client webinar
May 13, 2020Client webinar
May 1, 2020Client webinar
April 30, 2020Client webinar
April 16, 2020Client webinar
April 9, 2020Client webinar
April 3, 2020i2i Center for Integrative Health's Transformation Today and Tomorrow Conference
Carolina Hotel
80 Carolina Vista Drive
Pinehurst, NC 28374Dec. 4, 2019AHLA Fundamentals of Health Law Conference
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611Nov. 17-19, 2019AHLA Fundamentals of Health Law Conference
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611Nov. 17-19, 2019AHLA Annual Meeting
Boston Marriott Copley Place
110 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02116June 26, 2019Parker Poe
401 S. Tryon St., Suite 3000
Charlotte, NC 28202May 16, 2019University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
April 9, 2019AHLA Fundamentals of Health Law Conference
Chicago Marriott Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611Nov. 13, 2018AHLA Fundamentals of Health Law Conference
Chicago Marriott Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611Nov. 13, 2018The Carolina Club
150 Stadium Dr.
Chapel Hill, NC 27514Oct. 5, 2018Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60611Nov. 8, 2017Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60611Nov. 8, 2017Robinson Bradshaw
101 N. Tryon St., Suite 1900
Charlotte, NC 28246Oct. 10, 2017The Westin Copely Place
10 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02116Sept. 26, 2017MacNider Hall 322
333 S. Columbia St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599Feb. 9, 2017Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611Nov. 15, 2016Rizzo Conference Center
150 Dubose Home Lane
Chapel Hill, NC 27517Sept. 30, 2016Loews Philadelphia Hotel
1200 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107June 2, 2016- Jan. 19, 2016
Rizzo Conference Center
Chapel Hill, North CarolinaOct. 2, 2015- June 10, 2015
via Webinar
Sept. 25, 2014- March 19, 2014
via Webinar
Nov. 7, 2013Rizzo Conference Center
150 Dubose House Lane
Chapel Hill, North CarolinaOct. 18, 2013The Ritz Carlton, Charlotte
201 E Trade Street
Charlotte, North CarolinaOct. 17-19, 2013North Carolina Bar Association
8000 Weston Parkway
Cary, North Carolina 27513April 19, 2013via Webinar
Feb. 26, 2013North Carolina State University
McKimmon Center
1101 Gorman Street
Raleigh, North CarolinaDec. 8, 2012Via Webinar
Dec. 3, 2012Hyatt Regency Coconut Point
5001 Coconut Road
Bonita Springs, FloridaOct. 17-19, 2012Via Webinar
Oct. 11, 2012
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- Oct. 2018Hospitals & Health Systems RX, AHLA Newsletter
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- Sept. 16, 2015AHLA and AMA
- Nov. 28, 2014Charlotte Business Journal
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- Nonprofit Hospital Director Liability Protections: Worth A Second LookJune 27, 2014Prognosis, North Carolina Bar Association
- The October 2013 Tuomey Order: What Happened, What Can We Learn and What’s NextFeb. 12, 2014Prognosis, North Carolina Bar Association
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- March 27, 2013Robinson Bradshaw Publication
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- Device and Drug Manufacturers Take Heed: It’s Time to Comply with the Physician Payment Sunshine ActMarch 4, 2013Robinson Bradshaw Publication
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- February 2013AHLA Connections
- Jan. 18, 2013American Health Law Association
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- Nov. 6, 2012Robinson Bradshaw Publication
- Oct. 1, 2012American Health Law Association
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- July 26, 2012American Health Law Association
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- April 30, 2012American Health Law Association
- April 17, 2012Robinson Bradshaw Publication
- April 2, 2012American Health Law Association
- February 2012AHLA Connections
- Feb. 9, 2012American Health Law Association
- June 23, 2011Robinson Bradshaw Publication
- November 2009Charlotte Business Journal
- October 2009Robinson Bradshaw Publication
- Jan. 24, 2006Robinson Bradshaw Publication