Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel’s Health Care Practice Group provides guidance to leading health care participants throughout the region.  We have a diverse group of local and regional clients, including:

• Faculty practice plans
• Home health providers and hospices
• Hospitals
• Medical equipment suppliers
• Nursing homes and assisted living facilities
• Outpatient centers
• Physicians and other medical groups
• Physician practice management companies.

We have the commitment and experience that permits us not only to respond rapidly and effectively to the changing and complex issues affecting our health care clients, but also to provide competent and practical guidance.  Some of the specific areas in which we provide counsel include:

• Acquisitions and restructuring involving physician practices, hospitals, and other health care entities
• Analyzing noncompete and non-solicitation restrictions
• Certificate of need statutes and regulations
• Compliance plans
• Contract and business ventures between physicians and hospitals
• Governmental and private investigations
• HIPAA and other patient confidentiality laws
• Litigation and dispute resolution
• Managed care contracts
• Organization of physician and professional health care entities
• Regulatory matters including fraud and abuse, Stark II, and the False Claims Act
• Unwinding physician and hospital relationships.

In addition to counseling our health care clients on business and regulatory issues, we are able to assist when claims or lawsuits are filed against them in both the professional and commercial settings.  Our health care practice group has a number of experienced medical malpractice litigators who have handled numerous defense cases before state and federal courts.  In addition, we are prepared and experienced in assisting professionals involved in credentialing matters, medical staff disputes, and matters reportable to the national health care practitioner data bank.

Our health care attorneys are involved and hold leadership positions in many industry and professional groups such as American Health Lawyers Association, Defense Research Institute, and the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association, and are included in Best Lawyers in America.