Life Sciences - Health
Our Health Law Department is one of the largest and most well-respected in the United States with nearly 100 lawyers who practice health law on a full-time basis. For the second year in a row our Health Law Department has been ranked the #1 health law practice in the country by The American Lawyer.
The Health Law Department plays a vital role in assisting Life Sciences companies with regulatory compliance in developing, testing and commercializing products, and in transactions with academic medical centers, colleges, universities, hospitals, physicians, other providers, contract research organizations, site management organizations, researchers, data managers, group purchasing organizations, PBMs, and payers.
Our Health Law Department advises clients in many areas affecting Life Sciences companies, including:
- co-development agreements and for-profit/nonprofit joint ventures
- clinical trials - research agreements; research design for safety, efficacy, cost-efficiency and outcomes; compliance and investigations; patient recruitment, privacy/confidentiality
- IRBs/ethics boards - compliance, audits and investigations
- technology assessment and reimbursement - Medicare, Medicaid, private payers
- packaging, labeling and off-label uses
- fraud and abuse - marketing programs, product pricing, discount and rebate programs
- organ/tissue banking
- disease management and gain sharing programs
- HIPAA - medical privacy, patient registries, reimbursement assistance programs, marketing, transaction/code set compliance, security
- transactions - health care affiliations, joint ventures, financings and transactional due diligence
Contacts
- Robert B. Nicholas
+1 202 756 8170
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Health Client Services
- Academic Medical Centers
- Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASC)
- Catholic Organizations
- Conflicts of Interest - Health
- Consumer-Driven Health Care
- Health - Antitrust
- Health - General Counsel
- Health - Information Systems
