Healthcare

The Bowles Rice Health Care Group emphasizes quality advice based on a thorough understanding of the law and our clients' mission, goals and objectives. Our approach is to solve problems for the client by offering alternatives and solutions that meet those goals and objectives. Our ability to solve client problems requires not only the skill to guide the client through a highly complex maze of laws and regulations, but also an understanding of the political, social and economic factors that often underlie health care policy.

Bowles Rice has a special commitment to assisting health care providers, representing hospitals, physicians and physicians groups, behavioral health providers, long-term care facilities and child welfare agencies. Our clients also include health maintenance organizations, other managed care organizations and third-party administrators.

We provide services to health care clients in the following areas:

• Disputes with Payors
• Licensing and Certification
• Medicaid/Medicare
• HIPAA and Health Privacy Laws
• Medical Staff Issues
• Fraud and Abuse/Stark/False Claims
• Certificate of Need
• Rate Setting
• Managed Care
• Strategic Positioning
• Health Care Contracting
• Advance Directives
• Acquisitions and Mergers
• Antitrust
• Medical Malpractice/Risk Management
• Business Organization
• Governance
• Risk Arrangements
• Informed Consent
• Health Care Litigation
• Affordable Care Act Compliance