D+B Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB

Number of partners: 7

Number of lawyers: 27 (in total)

Languages: English, French, German

Firm Overview:

Founded in Berlin in 1997, the firm’s focus from the start has been healthcare. D+B has grown with the importance and regulation of the healthcare system: today, more than 25 experts in highly specialised teams in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Munich and Brussels advise clients on all aspects of healthcare law – nationally and internationally.

Main Areas of Practice:

-Competition Law

-Co-operations

-Criminal Law

-Data Protection

-Healthcare Compliance

-Hospital Finance

-Hospital Planning

-Labour Law

-Law Governing Liability for Med. Malpractice

-Law Governing Medical Devices

-Law Governing Medical Practitioners & Dentists

-Medical Aid Law

-Pharmacy Law

-Physio Rehabilitation

-Procurement Law

-Professional Law Regulating Health Care

-Professions

-Protection of Industrial Property

-Psychotherapist Legislation

-Telemedicine

-Statutory Health Insurance

Data Protection:

If data is to be used for purposes other than those for which it was collected, legal challenges arise. D+B advises companies, hospitals, doctors and billing providers and assists them in fulfilling information obligations, creates legally compliant contractual solutions and supports with the development and launch of software solutions.

Contact: Dr. Sabrina Neuendorf

Tel: +49 30 327787 -44

Email: [email protected]

Hospital Finance:

In this field, D+B advises and represents hospital associations in disputes before the arbitration boards (for example: state base rate - LBFW) and hospital operators in complaints against guidelines and decisions by the Federal Joint Committee (GBA).

Contact: Dr. Thomas Bohle, Dr. Christian Reuther

Tel: +49 30 327787 -46 | -69

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

Hospital Planning:

D+B analyses the current legal framework conditions and supports hospital operators in the course of the planning process by presenting opinions to the parties involved; this applies in particular to health insurance funds and planning authorities.

Contact: Dr. Thomas Bohle, Dr. Christian Reuther

Tel: +49 30 327787 -46 | -69

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

Law Governing Medical Devices:

D+B provides advice on areas of medical device legislation, as well as on issues such as medical device advertising, the conduct of clinical trials for medical devices and the procedure for evaluating new examination and treatment methods with medical devices of a high risk class.

Contact: Dr. Constanze Püschel, Dr. Ulrich Grau

Tel: +49 30 327787 -20 | -44

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

Law Governing Medical Practitioners & Dentists:

The SHI-physician/dentist legislation is the law governing outpatient care providers in the SHI system. D+B advises and represents doctors, dentists, psychotherapists and medical care centres throughout their entire professional life, from the purchase of a practice and admission or authorisation for the provision of care under the statutory health insurance system, to their departure, including succession authorisation and sale of the practice.

Contact: Prof. Dr. Martin Stellpflug

Tel: +49 30 327787 -36

Email: [email protected]

Pharmaceutical Law:

D+B mainly advises pharmaceutical companies, wholesalers, pharmacies, physicians and clinics. The core competencies include market access and reimbursement via the statutory health insurance funds and private insurances as well as the distribution of pharmaceuticals and legislation on pricing at all levels of trade.

Contact: Dr. Constanze Püschel, Dr. Ulrich Grau

Tel: +49 30 327787 -20 | -44

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

Pharmacy Law:

D+B advises and supports pharmacists when establishing a pharmacy, a pharmaceutical wholesale trade or production organisation, when acquiring main and/or branch pharmacies, in disputes with the regulatory authorities or the Pharmacists’ Association. This law office also advises pharmaceutical dispatchers as well as hospital pharmacies and works for professional associations and associations of pharmacists.

Contact: Dr. Constanze Püschel, Dr. Ulrich Grau

Tel: +49 30 327787 -20 | -44

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

Procurement Law:

D+B clarifies the scope and applicability of the procurement law framework in the upper and lower threshold ranges on behalf of their clients. The clients are supported with the submission of tenders, the formulation of tenderer questions and rebuke letters and conduct review procedures before the procurement chambers and the subsequent instances.

Contact: Dr. Constanze Püschel, Dr. Ulrich Grau

Tel: +49 30 327787 -20 | -44 | +49 211 415577 - 81

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

Statutory Health Insurance:

Approximately 89% of the population in Germany is insured in the statutory health insurance. D+B advises and represents all service providers in the SHI system in respect of developing products and services, licensing as a service provider or of a service, with the launch and pricing as well as all follow-up questions on the system.

Contact: Dr. Constanze Püschel, Dr. Tobias Volkwein

Tel: +49 30 327787 -20

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]

Telemedicine:

The rendering of medical services between physically separated participants while using health telematics is considered “telemedicine”. D+B advises doctors, companies, associations and institutions with the implementation of telemedical projects e.g. electronic patient files, telemonitoring, teleconsultations or electronic prescription.

Contact: Torsten Münnch, Christian Pinnow

Tel: +49 30 327787 -53 | +49 211 415577 - 80

Email: [email protected] | [email protected]