The Health Care Section at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has held a dominant position in the health care legal arena for more than 30 years. We offer clients the advantage of obtaining a wide range of legal counsel from attorneys who focus primarily on health care matters and possess in-depth industry knowledge. Few firms can match our breadth in health care law. Additionally, a number of our attorneys have served in the Department of Justice, with state attorneys general offices and in other government agencies involved in the health care area. Some have served as general counsel to academic medical centers, hospitals, senior care facilities and other provider entities, enabling us to understand and provide practical solutions to the issues our clients face on a daily basis.

In national and state surveys of clients and peers, our Health Care Section attorneys are continually recognized as America's Leading Business Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Leading US Healthcare Lawyers, BTI Client Service All-Stars, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Florida Trend's "Florida Legal Elite." Several of our health care attorneys serve as adjunct professors at nationally renowned law schools and universities on the subject of health care law.

Our Health Care Section represents the full range of clients in the health care industry, including:

• Academic medical centers
• Hospitals and health systems
• Long term acute care hospitals
• Senior care housing
• Rehabilitation centers
• Home care/hospice
• Behavioral health organizations
• Ambulatory care centers (e.g., imaging, surgery, cancer and dialysis centers)
• Physician groups
• Faculty practice plans
• Life sciences (pharma, biotech and medical device companies)
• Pharmacies (institutional and retail)
• Foundations
• Managed care organizations
• Religiously affiliated organizations
• Industry trade associations
  

With access to Buchanan's roster of more than 450 attorneys and government relations professionals, our multidisciplinary team of more than 40 health care lawyers and professionals has helped clients with issues pertaining to:

• Health care transactions (mergers & acquisitions, affiliations and contracts)
• Joint ventures
• Public and private financing
• Project development including real estate and construction contracts
• Compliance and fraud investigations
• FDA/clinical research trials
• Reimbursement and managed care (Medicare, Medicaid, commercial and other payers)
• Corporate and governance matters
• Information technology
• IRS/tax exemption
• Medical staff and faculty matters (physician recruitment, credentialing and hearings)
• Physician integration
• Patient care and privacy/HIPAA matters
• Licensing, accreditation and survey matters
• Certificate of need
• Intellectual property
• Regulatory and operational matters
• Labor and employment matters (e.g., union organizing, collective bargaining, grievance/arbitration, compensation, restrictive covenants, and whistleblower and discrimination claims)
  
• Immigration
• Government Relations