Health Care

Flora Pettit’s attorneys possess a wide range of experience in supporting health care organizations, ranging from large hospital systems to long term care facilities, home health care providers, assisted living facilities, and senior living/retirement communities (including CCRC-registered communities), as well as physician and dental practices.

We assist our health care clients in addressing complex issues unique to the industry, including:

  • Regulatory compliance (HIPAA, Stark, anti-kickback, etc.)

  • Managed care issues

  • Patient and Resident care issues, such as informed consent, guardianship, Patient Bill of Rights, advance medical directives, and residence agreements

  • Physician recruiting and contracting

  • Practice transitions, mergers and separations

  • Risk management and professional liability defense

  • Credentialing and peer review

  • Clinical trials and contract research organizations

  • CCRC registration and disclosure statements

We also defend our health care clients in medical malpractice lawsuits in both state and federal courts.  We have experience representing health care providers in a wide variety of specialties including general surgery, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, orthopedic surgery, and internal medicine.

We supplement this specialized expertise with a close-knit team of professionals from various other practice groups to support the more general needs of our health care industry clients,  including:

  • Corporate formation, mergers, acquisitions and other general corporate support

  • Employee Benefits

  • Labor and Employment Matters

  • Real estate, including acquisitions, land use, development, leasing, and community associations

  • Construction

  • Federal, State and Local Tax Matters, including tax exemption, private inurement, and unrelated business income taxes

  • Litigation

  • Financing, including tax-exempt bond transactions

  • Intellectual Property

  • Cybersecurity

  • Strengthening Foundations and Fundraising for Charities

  • General contract and general counsel services

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