Whiteford's Healthcare Law group advises healthcare entities (including managed care companies, hospitals, medical groups, e-health companies, insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers, vision centers, practice management companies, ambulatory centers and other facilities) with respect to legal issues specific to the healthcare industry. Our Healthcare Law Group draws upon the diverse talents of attorneys firm-wide with experience in virtually every aspect of legal practice.
The Healthcare Law Group provides counsel on all aspects of health law ranging from fraud and abuse and corporate practice of medicine to government regulation and privacy. We counsel clients on HIPAA compliance as well as federal and state laws regulating managed care, Medicare and Medicaid. The Group also counsels and represents clients on matters related to compliance with anti-kickback statutes, self-referral legislation (the "Stark Law") and defending against False Claims Act actions. Our attorneys advise healthcare clients with respect to antitrust issues inherent in such matters as preferred provider organizations, joint venture arrangements and mergers and acquisitions.
In addition, the Healthcare Law Group provides guidance to insurance carriers and employers on health benefit plans. Our healthcare attorneys work closely with our Employee Benefits practice group to assist in the design of managed care mechanisms for employers and negotiations with direct contracting providers. Attorneys in the Healthcare Law Group routinely advise with respect to the laws relating to tax-exempt organizations and represent both tax-exempt organizations and for profit healthcare business in all types of business transactions, including, without limitation, joint ventures, mergers, corporate reorganizations, sales of business assets, stock or membership interests and numerous other types of transactions relating to or arising from the integrated delivery systems used to deliver healthcare services to the public.
Healthcare Litigation
Our Healthcare Litigation attorneys provide a wide array of litigation and consultative services to hospitals, pharmacy networks, physicians, dentists, HMOs, physician practice groups, nurses, mental health counselors, and nursing homes. These attorneys have defended practitioners, hospitals and healthcare groups in lawsuits before the Maryland Health Claims Arbitration Office and the federal and state trial courts throughout Maryland and the District of Columbia. The cases we are able to handle involve all healthcare specialties, including obstetrics and gynecology, neurosurgery, pediatrics, cardiothoracic surgery, transplant surgery, psychiatry, ophthalmology, oncology, radiology, urology, pathology, oral surgery, periodontics, prosthodontics, nursing, geriatric care, and physical therapy.
In addition, we provide risk management counseling services to clients. These services include lectures, mock trials, and other presentations to insurance carriers and individual insureds as well as to hospital risk managers and departments and hospital medical staffs.
Our attorneys also represent physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals in credentialing disputes and investigations and disciplinary actions before specialty boards. Our attorneys often are asked to assist physician groups and hospitals in formulating policies regarding retention and disclosure of medical records and other office practices that affect the potential risk/liability of the provider.
Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald's October 1 memo tells National Fraud Enforcement Division prosecutors to put healthcare fraud first when deciding which companies to investigate and charge. Here is what that means for practices, agencies and pharmacies.
The General Assembly adjourned on April 7, 2003 and the Session actively concluded when the Governor enacted legislation into State law during four separate signing ceremonies on April 8, April 22, May 13 and May 22. This year, as has been the case for the past several years, the Maryland Legislature was particularly active in the health care arena. The Legislature passed, and the Governor signed, a substantial number of important health care laws.
Each year the Maryland Legislature enacts a number of laws which impact in various degrees on the personal and business lives of people living in or doing business in the State of Maryland. The General Assembly adjourned on April 8, 2002, and the Session actively concluded when the Governor enacted legislation into State law during four separate signing ceremonies on April 9, April 25, May 6 and May 16.
Baltimore – Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that U.S. News and World Report - Best Lawyers ® “Best Law Firms” has awarded the firm exemplary rankings for 2018. Nineteen of the firm’s practices are ranked at the national level, including three practices with national Tier 1 rankings: Litigation, Bankruptcy and Real Estate. At the state level, an additional fifty practices have been ranked in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and VA.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that Chambers and Partners has once again ranked the firm highly in its 2017 list of leading firms and business lawyers. This year’s recognition includes a record 29 attorneys in 4 states, the District of Columbia and Afghanistan.
Whiteford Taylor & Preston announced today that prominent Maryland health care attorney Sigrid C. Haines has joined the firm as a partner in its Columbia and Baltimore offices. With decades of experience in health care and elder law, Ms. Haines is experienced representing hospitals, medical and health-related foundations, health care systems, nursing homes, home health agencies, physicians and pharmacies.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that 41 of its attorneys are listed among the 2017 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in Maryland and Kentucky joining the sixteen who were listed earlier this year in Delaware, D.C., Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that, in addition to ranking the firm highly in its 2016 list of Maryland’s leading firms and business lawyers, Chambers and Partners have added new Whiteford lawyers in Maryland and Delaware.
The practice group rankings are based on the high rankings of 21 individual lawyers.
Fifty-nine lawyers from Whiteford, Taylor & Preston have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016 (copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken S.C.). The lawyers selected are based in the firm’s Maryland, Washington and Virginia offices.
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP is very gratified to announce that the firm has once again received exemplary ratings in the fifth annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of law firms.
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP is very gratified to announce that the firm has received exemplary ratings in the second annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of law firms. In Maryland, WTP was rated highly in 34 practice areas, more than any other firm in the state.
