Aligned Health Law

AHL is a women-owned and led boutique healthcare law firm with a national reach. Our seasoned attorneys bring to bear decades of experience from a variety of backgrounds, to serve AHL’s healthcare services and healthcare technology clients.

We are transactional, regulatory, and technology attorneys counseling on all aspects of today’s healthcare landscape, helping our clients navigate and mitigate risk amongst an ever changing patchwork of state and federal laws.Our experience and expertise includes a deep understanding of state and federal fraud and abuse laws, traditional Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement as well as new payment and care delivery models, state level licensure, fee-splitting, and corporate practice prohibitions, state and federal data privacy and security rules and laws, and the evolving AI/ML regulatory framework.

We are more than lawyers and trusted counsel for our healthcare services, technology-enabled services, and technology clients – we are strategic thought partners. We leverage our values-based foundation to serve a diverse healthcare client portfolio ranging from emerging healthcare companies to Fortune 500 companies, serving as outside general counsel for many of our clients.

Purpose, Vision, Values

AHL is a values-led law firm grounded in the belief that practice of law is a team, not individual, “sport”.AHL fundamentally rejects the scarcity mindset and believes that “rising tides float all boats”.We are building a firm that champions one another and celebrates each attorney showing up authentically every day. We take time to recognize and celebrate our client and individuals wins, support each other through challenges, present each other and our clients with opportunities, and are championing a culture that allows each attorney to prioritize their own unique career and personal goals.

Our purpose is to provide high quality legal services in a sustainable manner to help healthcare leaders and innovators get to yes so they can move their businesses forward.

Our vision is to revolutionize the way legal services are provided through the creation of a best-in-class law firm that embodies a “we” mentality that directly contributes to our clients’ transformation of the healthcare delivery system.

Our values are:

• Authenticity
• Humility
• Gratitude
• Levity
• Openness

Mergers, Acquisitions + Strategic Transactions

With constant changes in the reimbursement landscape, alongside a steady shift to value-based care, healthcare leaders and investors continue to look for innovative partnerships through mergers, acquisitions and strategic affiliations/joint ventures to improve quality of care and delivery, financial outcomes, and operational efficiencies. Likewise, the uncertainty of the reimbursement landscape, coupled with market fluctuations, has created a ripe environment for consolidation as healthcare providers look to survive industry changes. Part and parcel with structuring innovative partnerships, acquisitions and other strategic affiliations are the regulatory hurdles that parties face when structuring these arrangements.

AHL has decades of experience representing clients across the healthcare ecosystem that pursue consolidation as well as those seeking other means of collaboration, alignment, innovation, and improving quality of care, efficiencies, and cost savings. We leverage our significant transactional and healthcare experience to help our healthcare clients determine the optimal structure of strategic transactions, acquisitions / sales, joint venture arrangements, and other affiliations.

We integrate transactional, regulatory and industry-specific expertise, and have significant experience advising on these matters at operational and strategic levels. Our cross-functional approach enables our attorneys to anticipate change and craft creative solutions that avoid redundancy and delay, so that transactions are executed in a timely, cost-effective manner. We work closely with our clients’ business teams to negotiate and prepare straightforward, strong, definitive agreements that minimize risk and achieve our clients’ objectives. For our buyer clients, we craft and operationalize effective due diligence processes designed to evaluate risk and ensure our clients understand the legal and regulatory issues involved.

Unlike many M&A attorneys, we also assist our clients with post-closing operations, including transitional services agreements, management agreements, and required notices. Our integrated transactional and regulatory approach is designed to find a way to YES, in which our team helps move the transaction forward and succeed beyond the closing.

Healthcare Regulatory + Compliance

Healthcare entities navigate complex state and federal laws and regulations on a daily basis. We represent national and regional multi-hospital health systems, sole community providers, integrated payor/provider systems, pharmacies, specialty pharmacies, group purchasing organizations, hospital-physician joint ventures, urgent care centers, physician practices, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, nursing homes, home health providers, hospice, and other specialty providers with their regulatory and transactional needs. Our integrated regulatory services include mergers and acquisitions, strategic alignments and joint ventures, co-development arrangements, management services arrangements, channel partnership and other strategic affiliations, corporate compliance, as well as compliance programs, audits, investigations.

We have decades of experience in all key regulatory areas of healthcare, including federal and state anti-kickback and self-referral laws, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, the 340B drug-pricing program, patient data privacy and security (including HIPAA, HITECH, and state privacy

considerations), state corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting, state facility licensure, and state and federal self-disclosure protocols. These and other laws, regulations, agency guidelines, advisory opinions, manuals, and court decisions impact ongoing operations as well as the timing,

structure, and risk of strategic transactions and business opportunities and we can help you navigate

them.

Specialty Providers + Organizations

Specialty providers and organizations such as group purchasing organizations, labs, pharmacies, and durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) companies, have unique business, regulatory, and transactional needs. We routinely counsel specialty providers and suppliers, helping them identify and mitigate risks, navigate unique statutory schemes, implement

needed compliance safeguards, and negotiate commercial contracts.

In particular, we assist specialty providers with negotiating payor contracts with pharmacy benefit managers, insurance companies, employers and governmental agencies. Our expertise includes payor reimbursement laws, the 340B drug-pricing program, and negotiating complex pharmaceutical contracts for services such as: discount cards; clinical services; vaccination administration; medication therapy management and adherence programs; and, several other pharmaceutical initiatives.

Digital Health

As healthcare evolves and care shifts into homes, we help digital health and technology–enabled services companies, including telehealth platforms, health IT applications, mobile health providers, and related service companies, set up and conduct operations in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations—including state corporate practice doctrines, fee-splitting, privacy and security requirements. We also help our clients navigate reimbursement hurdles and structure and negotiate strategic partnerships in connection with B2B go-to-market strategies.

Outside General Counsel

We serve as outside general counsel for established and emerging healthcare companies. For established companies, we structure our services to optimally support ongoing operations and strategic plans. For emerging companies, we tailor our services and fees to support our clients’ changing needs as they build, grow, and scale. We provide counsel on applicable legal requirements and help build connections with fellow entrepreneurs, investors, specialty business advisors, and others. We have experience on the inside and understand the needs and demands of early-stage companies. For clients with in-house capabilities, we provide focused, seamless guidance to supplement available expertise.