Healthcare Law

Our Healthcare Litigation Group provides a wide range of legal support to hospitals, clinics, healthcare groups and individual medical providers. We regularly advise clients on issues relating to healthcare regulations involving privacy and confidentiality, HIPAA, managed care, and EMTALA. We also represent and assist hospitals and medical providers in matters affecting staff privileges, credentials and licensing.

We have significant experience with psychiatric care and rehabilitation medicine, serving as primary counsel for seven psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, and residential treatment facilities in Georgia.

Experience in this practice area includes:

• Representing physicians, nurses, podiatrists, chiropractors, and pharmacists, before the Georgia state licensing board in connection with complaint investigations, investigations following settlements of malpractice claims, and/or significant adverse verdicts.
  
• Serving as counsel to facilities and physician practices, helping to respond to third party requests for production of patient records, and answering subpoenas involving HIPAA and other state and federal privacy laws pertaining to healthcare records and information.
  
• Representing the hospital and/or physicians at Fair Hearings involving revocation, suspension, or other sanctions of hospital privileges.
  
• Advising hospitals on peer review and privilege related matters.
  
• Representing a surgical center in obtaining a Certificate of Need.
  
• Defending a nationwide provider of health care services in responding to complex issues surrounding confidentiality of peer review proceedings.
  
• Enjoining implementation of an adverse action taken against a physician, by a hospital, after all fair hearing and other appeals at the hospital had been exhausted.
  
• Challenging and causing withdrawal of an adverse report to the National Practitioner Data Bank.