Overview
Healthcare is one of the most intricate and constantly changing areas of the law. Foley Hoag keeps its healthcare clients ahead of the shifts and sheds light on the gray areas with an approach built on its deep understanding of healthcare law and years of experience in developing innovative legal solutions to your needs.
Foley Hoag lawyers and healthcare specialists have decades of experience in statutory and regulatory analysis, healthcare compliance, government investigations, litigation and corporate transactions. Our lawyers and healthcare policy specialists have had a direct hand in shaping virtually every healthcare law and regulation enacted over the past four decades, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the budget reconciliation laws of the 1980s. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranked our practice and two Foley Hoag partners among the top healthcare lawyers in their region.
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Healthcare legal team members have served as senior congressional staffers on committees with jurisdiction over healthcare and related areas such as labor and pension law. The co-chair of our practice was the general counsel of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Other members of the team have similar high-level experience, including working in senior positions at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Our fluency in healthcare laws and policy helps us to help our clients develop successful strategies for navigating the complex healthcare environment. Crucial to the successful execution of those strategies is our ability to build and maintain relationships with key legislators and government regulators. These relationships enable us to represent our clients’ views directly to the people responsible for setting the country’s healthcare agenda.
We represent a wide range of clients from across the healthcare industry spectrum including:
- pharmaceutical companies
- medical device manufacturers
- diagnostic companies
- institutional providers, including hospitals, dialysis providers, and long-term care facilities
- physicians and medical groups
- home health agencies
- payers, including Medicare Advantage and Part D plans
- commercial insurers
- employee and health benefit managers
- healthcare trade associations
Foley Hoag also has extensive experience in representing a wide-range of clients targeted by OIG, DOJ and congressional investigations; defending against civil and criminal fraud claims; and assisting clients with healthcare compliance efforts.
Keeping abreast of the laws and rules governing healthcare is as demanding as healthcare itself. With Foley Hoag as your legal counsel, your energies can remain focused on your primary missions: delivering goods or services to the populations that need them.
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