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Healthcare: The Elite | USA

USA - Nationwide

Healthcare covers a wide range of work, including transactional, advisory, and contentious matters. Transactional work is primarily the sale and purchase, of some or all of a health system or health insurance company. Law firms advise on antitrust issues and assorted regulatory matters for clients such as hospitals, health systems and insurance companies. Litigation includes matters like qui tam (whistleblower) suits and the defence of parties involved in federal investigations. Advisory and regulatory compliance matters include Medicare Part D, the subsidizing of drugs through the federally-run Medicare program. Also covers Stark Law, which governs referrals of physicians accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, and the False Claims Act (FCA). This chapter also features advice on pharmaceutical and medical products regulatory issues covering the drugs and devices approved by the FDA.

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Band 1

  1. McDermott Will & Emery LLP
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    McDermott Will & Emery LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 1 | 4 Years Ranked
    McDermott Will & Emery LLP is a well-established and highly respected healthcare powerhouse which handles complex, multijurisdictional transactions for high-profile clients. Large and impressively versatile team offers well-honed expertise in all areas of healthcare law, including data privacy matters, government investigations and a wide range of issues affecting health insurers and providers. Experience includes large-scale telehealth mandates and restructuring concerns.
  2. Ropes & Gray LLP
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    Ropes & Gray LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 1 | 4 Years Ranked
    Ropes & Gray LLP is a leading healthcare firm with a talented team noted for its deep regulatory and transactional expertise, advising on areas such as managed care issues, reimbursement claims and large-scale investigations. Possesses niche expertise in data privacy and clinical research. Also noted for its representation of providers, payors and manufacturers in transactional matters. Impressive capabilities in key areas such as telemedicine and private equity investment.
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Band 2

  1. Epstein Becker & Green PC
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    Epstein Becker & Green PC
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 2 | 4 Years Ranked
    Epstein Becker & Green PC has a multidisciplinary and long-established group offering deep expertise across areas such as antitrust, data privacy and medical technology. Strong track record in advising academic medical centers and physician practices on regulatory issues and associated investigation and compliance matters. Also offers clients substantial expertise in health matters pertaining to venture capital and private equity funds.
  2. Hogan Lovells US LLP
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    Hogan Lovells US LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 2 | 4 Years Ranked
    Hogan Lovells is much admired for its impressive depth of regulatory expertise, fielding significant experience in advising academic medical centers and pharmaceutical companies as well as providers. Highly capable of handling antitrust, digital health, and fraud and abuse matters. Also acts on complex transactions, reimbursement claims and investigations as part of its broad practice.
  3. King & Spalding LLP
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    King & Spalding LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 2 | 4 Years Ranked
    King & Spalding LLP draws on extensive nationwide resources to advise across the full breadth of healthcare issues, and has significant expertise in regulatory issues and litigation arising from the False Claims Act and Medicare reimbursement issues. Represents its wide-ranging client base on complex transactions and Stark Law compliance, while fostering exceptional experience in health IT matters such as the federal HITECH Act and Meaningful Use Rules.
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Band 3

  1. Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
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    Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Bass, Berry & Sims has a versatile group that acts on behalf of clients such as physician practice management companies, hospitals, pharmacies and disease management companies. Deep expertise across the healthcare arena, fielding experience in areas such as enforcement actions, operational issues and corporate transactions. Also serves clients within the hospice, private equity and telemedicine sectors.
  2. Crowell & Moring LLP
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    Crowell & Moring LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Crowell & Moring provides sophisticated healthcare law services to nationwide payors, providers and medical device companies across a broad range of matters. Particular areas of expertise include fraud and abuse claims, managed care and transactions. Regularly engaged by health insurers in affirmative recovery actions and by digital health clients in various payment reform efforts.
  3. Foley & Lardner LLP
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    Foley & Lardner LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Foley & Lardner LLP provides extensive experience within the healthcare field across transactional matters as well as associated regulatory, enforcement and government affairs work. Expertise includes M&A, private investment, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and Stark Law issues. Represents a large number of healthcare networks as well as other entities such as emergency services organizations and pharmaceutical companies.
  4. Holland & Knight LLP
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    Holland & Knight LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Holland & Knight LLP has a highly regarded healthcare practice that frequently advises on large-scale transactions and regulatory issues. Adept at complex litigation, including fraud and abuse cases. Fields additional expertise in advising on HIPAA and data privacy issues. Attracts a broad client base, including both payors and providers. Further experience of handling matters on behalf of publicly traded and privately owned healthcare companies, as well as tax-exempt hospitals.
  5. Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC
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    Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC is a dedicated healthcare firm offering litigation, transactional and regulatory expertise to its extensive provider and supplier client base across the country. Noted for its particular strength in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, large-scale hospital acquisitions and False Claims Act actions. Able to engage an experienced federal government relations and policy group to provide holistic support.
  6. Jones Day
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    Jones Day
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Jones Day is highlighted for its transactional and litigation healthcare practice, which benefits from strong antitrust, tax and data security capabilities. Able to draw on an impressive national network to offer comprehensive expertise to providers, payors and life sciences companies within the healthcare space. Also well versed in advising on compliance issues and broader regulatory matters.
  7. Latham & Watkins LLP
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    Latham & Watkins LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Latham & Watkins LLP offers expert representation across the full scope of matters affecting life sciences and healthcare clients, including providers. Strong bench of former government attorneys who field expertise across numerous US departments and offices. Dominant presence in qui tam suits and criminal proceedings, as well as frequent involvement in complex transactions, including high-value M&A.
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    Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP is highly regarded for its sophisticated practice and strong national presence. Acts for major clients such as provider systems, payors and trade associations on a range of regulatory, litigation and transactional matters. Delivers substantial expertise in Medicaid redesign, health reform implementation, and privacy and security matters.
  9. Reed Smith LLP
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    Reed Smith LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Reed Smith LLP has a well-regarded healthcare practice with strength across the board, including notable experience in handling high-stakes fraud and abuse investigations, regulatory due diligence and reimbursement matters. Standout expertise in post-acute care for hospitals, nursing homes and hospices. Offers additional expertise in transactions, such as M&A and joint ventures, as well as dealing with various issues affecting payors.
  10. Sidley Austin LLP
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    Sidley Austin LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Sidley Austin LLP maintains a strong reputation for its representation of an extensive range of domestic and multinational payors, providers and life sciences companies. Fields an experienced group whose expertise includes enforcement proceedings, transactional and antitrust issues, as well as Affordable Care Act compliance. Also offers services in sectors intersecting with healthcare, such as insurance, pharmaceuticals and technology.
  11. Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 3
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Band 4

  1. Alston & Bird LLP
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    Alston & Bird LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    Alston & Bird LLP spans the full range of healthcare matters for its national client base, including significant expertise in legislative and policy representation. Acts on transactions such as securities offerings and restructurings, as well as advising on regulatory compliance under state and federal laws. Represents a diverse range of healthcare entities including pharmaceutical organizations, managed care companies, medical device manufacturers and trade associations.
  2. Dentons LLP
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    Dentons LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    Dentons has an extensive nationwide practice that draws on significant experience acting for clients such as academic medical centers, payors and hospital systems across the USA. Handles high-value transactions as well as advising across the breadth of complex regulatory issues. Also engaged by clients for matters concerning government affairs, nonprofit tax issues, bankruptcy and reorganization.
  3. Faegre Drinker
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    Faegre Drinker
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    Faegre Drinker possesses an accomplished healthcare group that regularly acts for nationwide networks, healthcare systems and hospitals. Acts on high-value transactions and regulatory compliance matters across a range of areas, such as antitrust, corporate ventures and long-term care. Also fields niche expertise in areas such as health IT.
  4. McGuireWoods LLP
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    McGuireWoods LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    McGuireWoods is a well-respected presence in the healthcare market offering a breadth of expertise to clients such as hospitals, healthcare systems and other entities. Experience spans transactional, regulatory, litigation and privacy issues, among other areas. Also offers substantial skill in advising healthcare private equity firms and other companies on various investments and sales.
  5. Mintz
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    Mintz
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    Mintz offers high-level regulatory expertise and advises on strategic healthcare transactions, external investigations and enforcement proceedings. Acts for a broad roster of clients, including providers, clinical laboratories, pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers. Also navigates a range of FDA issues and reimbursement matters.
  6. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
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    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is a highly regarded healthcare firm with extensive expertise in compliance and fraud and abuse matters, as well as wider litigation, transactions and public policy issues. Attracts a wide-ranging client base reflective of its broad industry coverage, including medical device manufacturers, insurers and providers.
  7. Nixon Peabody LLP
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    Nixon Peabody LLP
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    Nixon Peabody LLP has a cross-disciplinary team fielding strong regulatory strength, advising on areas such as licensing, certificates of need, and fraud and abuse concerns. Also offers expertise in transactions such as M&A and strategic alliances, as well as advising on areas such as HIPAA and telemedicine. Acts for a range of clients, including increased activity in the private equity space.
  8. Norton Rose Fulbright
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    Norton Rose Fulbright
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    Norton Rose Fulbright has a longstanding healthcare practice that draws on additional capabilities in life sciences matters. Notable transactional strength complemented by significant regulatory and litigation expertise. Recognized for its work with academic medical centers across the USA, and routinely represents payors, hospitals and medical device manufacturers.
  9. Polsinelli PC
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    Polsinelli PC
    Healthcare: The Elite
    2024 | Band 4 | 4 Years Ranked
    Polsinelli PC is well regarded for its versatile healthcare practice, attracting a nationwide client base that includes major hospitals and health systems. Handles regulatory compliance issues, litigation and high-value transactions, such as industry combinations. Routinely represents post-acute providers, dialysis suppliers and healthcare technology companies.