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Proven Health Care Attorneys

HFM’s Health Care Practice Group provides representation to Physicians, Physician Groups, Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Rehabilitation and Residential Care Facilities, as well as other Allied Health Care providers and entities.

For decades, the attorneys in the Health Care Practice Group have successfully represented, and developed the trust of, local and national Health Care clientele, as well as their affiliated entities and insurers.

With a considerable depth of experience, the members of the HFM Health Care Practice Group provide counsel and representation to Health Care clientele in business organization, transactional, employment, risk management, litigation, regulatory and corporate compliance, administrative/licensing, and various other matters. Providing representation to the largest Hospital systems, Medical Groups of all sizes, national and local Ambulatory Surgery Centers, individual Physicians and other licensed Health Care providers and entities, the members of the HFM Health Care Practice Group understand, and are able to successfully address, matters of both local and State-wide complexity.

Uniquely complemented to provide services extending across business, transactional and litigation matters, the HFM Health Care Practice Group has demonstrated expertise in matters including:

Business Counsel and Advice

• Business formation, operation, and dissolution
• Mergers, buy-outs, sales, and reorganizations
• Corporate and business organization; governance issues
• Anti-Kickback and self-referral compliance
• Employment and termination agreements and counseling
• Medical Group acquisitions, purchase and ownership agreements
• Lease review and negotiation
• Physician and other individual Health Care Provider acquisition, termination, and separation agreements
• Intellectual Property rights protection
• Medical Foundation affiliations and documentation
• Management services organizations
• Litigation and Litigation-Related Services
• Risk Management and Litigation-avoidance
• Litigation expertise in California State courts, Federal courts, Office of Administrative Hearings, California State Licensing agencies, and alternative dispute resolution forums
• Business litigation and contract disputes
• Employment litigation and counseling
• Class action claims
• Medical device and drug issues/claims
• Products liability
• Intellectual property litigation
• Defense of professional liability claims
• Elder and dependent abuse claims
• Administrative/licensing agency investigations and disciplinary matters
• Data privacy and breach litigation; HIPAA compliance
• ADA accessibility litigation
• Health care entity tax controversy representation

Transactional Services

• Business formation, operation, and dissolution
• Mergers, buy-outs, sales, and reorganizations
• Corporate and business organization; governance issues
• Anti-Kickback and self-referral compliance
• Employment and termination agreements and counseling
• Medical Group acquisitions, purchase and ownership agreements
• Lease review and negotiation
• Physician and other individual Health Care Provider acquisition, termination, and separation agreements
• Intellectual Property rights protection
• Medical Foundation affiliations and documentation
• Management services organizations

Litigation and Litigation-Related Services

• Risk Management and Litigation-avoidance
• Litigation expertise in California State courts, Federal courts, Office of Administrative Hearings, California State Licensing agencies, and alternative dispute resolution forums
• Business litigation and contract disputes
• Employment litigation and counselling
• Class action claims
• Medical device and drug issues/claims
• Products liability
• Intellectual property litigation
• Defense of professional liability claims
• Elder and dependent abuse claims
• Administrative/licensing agency investigations and disciplinary matters
• Data privacy and breach litigation; HIPAA compliance
• ADA accessibility litigation
• Health care entity tax controversy representation