Overview
Stinson's health care and insurance lawyers advise health care providers, health plans, insurance companies, life science companies, and other organizations in handling the transactional, regulatory and governance challenges presented in today's ever-changing health care marketplace. Our health care and insurance team proactively develops practical solutions for our clients' challenges in the context of their business objectives.
Our practice encompasses health plans and insurance, medical facilities and professionals, health information privacy, and medical device and pharma. In addition to the discipline specific capabilities described below, we routinely work in cross-disciplinary teams to address legal challenges that transcend any particular categorization. Our experience includes:
- Provided transactional, regulatory, and government relations counsel to Liberty Hospital in a strategic growth partnership, securing an investment over $300 million in technology upgrades, facility expansion, and increased access to high-quality health care.
- Reorganized multiple health plans, HMOs, and their insurer affiliates to maximize regulatory flexibility and capital efficiency, including working closely with regulators to enact legislative authorization for novel transaction structures.
- Developed innovative volume-based pricing models for pharma and PBM clients to minimize risk of insurance regulation.
- Developed national strategies for innovative product offerings by medical device and pharma companies in telehealth, remote monitoring, genome sequencing and drug delivery.
Our capabilities include mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestiture of health care and insurance entities; corporate governance and compliance advice for nonprofit tax-exempt organizations, professional firms, and for-profit entities; practical solutions to address evolving health information privacy issues; compliance advice and investigation support on Medicare/Medicaid regulations, including Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and Civil Monetary Penalties matters; and state licensing of health care providers and health plans. We also provide general counsel services to many of our health care clients, coordinating a team to provide support on a wide range of business matters, including contracting, labor and employment, employee benefits, real estate, and intellectual property issues.
