Healthcare

GSRM Law’s healthcare lawyers in Nashville represent healthcare businesses, individuals and organizations throughout Tennessee and across the country. The firm’s Healthcare practice offers clients the knowledge of what it takes to close transactions; navigate beyond credentialing, and other licensing and disciplinary challenges; guide clients through regulatory challenges; as well as manage litigation claims in the healthcare industry. Our healthcare attorneys here in Nashville represent the broad spectrum of healthcare industry organizations, professionals, and entrepreneurs, including:

• Individual healthcare professionals, physicians and physician groups
• For-profit and nonprofit hospitals
• Long term care, skilled nursing and senior facilities
• Surgery and academic medical centers
• Health related technology companies
• Life science and pharmaceutical organizations
• Medical equipment and device manufacturers
• Rehabilitative and physical therapy networks
• Diagnostic imaging centers and laboratories, both general and special chemistry
• Independent and university medical research laboratories

GSRM Law works closely with healthcare industry clients—particularly physician and physician groups—to structure, plan and implement a business model which provides asset protection and operational efficiencies. The firm’s experience spans a broad spectrum of healthcare specific commercial transactions. Our healthcare lawyers in Nashville have worked with clients to devise the most advantageous corporate structure for a healthcare entity. We also negotiate and document real estate leases and purchase/sale agreements, practice purchase contracts, physician entity agreements and associate buy-ins and exit strategies.

Our team also advises on all related issues associated with healthcare professional licensure, credentialing, privileging and disciplinary issues and actions, including malpractice defense. This experience encompasses the representation of such professionals before administrative agencies, as well as before the provider’s respective regulatory and governing boards. Our Nashville healthcare lawyers have been involved in everything from licensure investigations, to physician practices and their hospital affiliations and privileges, to guiding physicians through formal appeals, to representing providers during the fair hearing process. Many clients come to GSRM Law for comprehensive advice pertaining to credentialing and/or maintaining their credentials in HMOs, PPOs or other similar provider networks, as disaffiliation from such networks can have serious financial consequences and a potentially negative impact on reputation.

In today’s healthcare industry, certification by a physician’s medical specialty board is no longer optional. Without board certification in a given specialty, a provider may experience problems with credentialing, health plans and the hospitals with whom they affiliate. GSRM Law works diligently with such clients to ensure proper certification, as well as advocates the interests of our client in the event board certification is threatened.

GSRM Law represents not only healthcare industry entities and emerging medical device companies, but also developers of healthcare technology and life science ventures. The firm’s healthcare lawyers in Nashville have participated in a variety of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, venture capital financings, and licensing arrangements. GSRM Law attorneys negotiate and structure an array of transactions for these organizations, a sampling of which includes agreements pertaining to facility construction and confidential disclosure; Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, compliance and investigations; fraud and abuse; and HIPAA and other privacy issues.

State and federal labor and employment laws continue to become more complex—and defending enforcement actions and litigation claims have become a critical component of maintaining profitability. Our Nashville healthcare attorneys assist healthcare industry clients not only to understand and comply with labor and employment laws, but also to protect our client’s rights in the event a claim is filed or enforcement action ensues. Our firm provides preventative employment related legal counsel, including comprehensive employee handbooks and policy manuals that set forth clear guidelines for the employer/employee relationship.

GSRM Law attorneys have a long history of assisting healthcare clients with employment related mediation, arbitration and litigation. The firm has been successful in averting and defending a variety of claims, including wrongful termination and discrimination, wage and hour, reductions in workforce, occupational safety and harassment, non-competition violations and confidentiality. Contact us today to learn more about our healthcare lawyers here in Nashville and how they can provide strategic legal solutions to address your unique healthcare-related legal challenges.