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Healthcare
Witherspoon Kelley provides legal services and advice to healthcare clients including physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home care services, other healthcare facilities and professionals, community mental health services and insurance companies. The healthcare practice area encompasses a broad field of practice and entails every aspect of a healthcare client’s business. Witherspoon Kelley’s Healthcare attorneys work closely with members of our Tax, Labor and Employment, Business and Corporate, and Litigation departments in order to provide quality service in a timely manner.
Healthcare practice areas:
- Antitrust
- Complex health-related litigation
- Corporate law
- Credentialing/Peer review/Licensing
- Employment law for healthcare providers
- Health and safety issues
- Health insurance
- HIPAA/Privacy rights/Medical records
- Joint ventures
- Limited Liability Companies and partnerships
- Medical malpractice defense
- Medicare/Medicaid/Compliance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Physician and hospital organizations
- Real estate and environmental matters
- Tax matters: for-profit and exempt organizations
Representative Healthcare Work:
- Acquisition of Empire Health Services by Community Health Systems, Inc.
- Acquisition of specialty surgery group by Providence Services
- Berger v. Sonneland, 101 Wn.App. 141 (2000), 144 Wn.2d 91 (2001) (Medical negligence case concerning definition of healthcare and need for expert testimony)
- Negotiation of various joint ventures between hospitals and other physician groups to provide specialized services
- Nguyen v. Sacred Heart Medical Center, 97 Wn.App. 728 (1999) (Concerning availability of outrage claim in medical negligence case)
- Pre-merger analysis for three mergers of physician group practices
- Representation of healthcare providers in administrative proceedings on professional standards
- Wright v Jeckle, 158 Wn.2d 375 (2006) (Class Action concerning Washington’s medical anti-kickback statute)
Practitioners of Healthcare Law:
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