About
Provided by Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Bradley’s Healthcare Practice Group provides the creative and effective legal solutions our healthcare clients need to successfully navigate this complicated landscape. Our healthcare attorneys provide skilled legal counsel that draws from our depth of industry knowledge. We move quickly to keep our clients informed and in compliance in this dynamic regulatory environment, offering full-service support to maintain our partners’ competitiveness in the high-stakes world of mergers and acquisitions.
As in medicine, our skill and reputation as high-quality healthcare lawyers arise from the sheer volume of our experience in successfully handling a comprehensive range of legal matters facing the healthcare industry, including:
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Clinical research
- Compliance
- Corporate finance and securities
- Dialysis
- Employee benefits
- Facility acquisitions and real estate
- False Claims Act defense
- Fraud and abuse and Stark Law
- Graduate medical education, medical school affiliations
- Health information and technology
- Intellectual property
- Internal investigations
- Labor and employment
- Litigation and risk management
- Managed care
- Medical staff issues
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Nonprofit and tax-exempt issues
- Operations
- Privacy and information security, HIPAA
- Private equity and venture capital
- Telehealth
- Tax
- Value-based payments
Chambers Review
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings works for healthcare providers across a broad range of regulatory and transactional mandates. The firm specializes in the representation of large physician practices. The team is also particularly experienced in representing clients in employment-related litigation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team has broad experience on all of the issues that concern us, and many on the team have years of experience in difference aspects of healthcare. The work is always very thorough and exactly what we have requested."
"They are always accessible and give timely and sound advice based on solid legal footing and operational effectiveness."
"The team has broad experience on all of the issues that concern us, and many on the team have years of experience in difference aspects of healthcare. The work is always very thorough and exactly what we have requested."
"They are always accessible and give timely and sound advice based on solid legal footing and operational effectiveness."
Notable Practitioners
Sidney Welch advises clients such as technology companies and physician practices on a range of matters, drawing on longstanding regulatory expertise. Her practice includes transactional mandates and litigation.
"I have been very pleased with Sidney's work. She displays a tremendous amount of empathy and understanding."
Craig Smith has a strong transactional practice that includes M&A and financing deals involving both nonprofits and for-profit entities, as well as advising on corporate governance and licensing. He also frequently counsels on regulatory issues.