Health Care

Michelman & Bricker, P.C.
Philadelphia Healthcare Attorneys

Health Care Legal Advice

Are you a health care professional seeking legal advice and representation concerning business, financial and personal matters? At Michelman & Bricker, P.C., we represent a wide variety of health care professionals in the many issues that they encounter on a day-to-day basis. With offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Longmeadow (Springfield), Massachusetts and San Juan, Puerto Rico, we primarily serve clients along the Eastern Seaboard and within the Caribbean Basin.

Our practice includes counsel for issues involving:

Healthcare Licensing Lawyer

Because of the complex and constantly changing federal and state regulations that our clients must meet, we are often required to assist them in dealing with state and federal regulatory and investigative agencies to resolve civil and/or criminal claims relating to performance and billing practices.

These matters require a sophisticated and comprehensive understanding of the underlying medical, dental and pharmacological issues and the daily workings of these health care practices. Some of our attorneys have prior experience working in the health care field, as a hospital administrator, life care community facility administrator, and as a licensed pharmacist. They understand the health care field, and can use insight from their own experiences to help clients successfully navigate difficult legal and practical issues.

Some of the health care matters the firm has represented include:

Business and Transactional Matters:

• Representation of pediatrician in negotiation and purchase of an existing pediatrics practice, and in drafting employment contracts and buy-in agreements for other physicians.
  
  
• Representation of medical practices in negotiations with billing and collections services.
  
  
• Representation of dentist and dental practice in federal income tax investigation.
  
  
• Representation of surgeon with heart condition in long term disability claim against insurance company.

Medicare and Medicaid Compliance:

• Represented podiatrist in negotiating settlement of Medicare false claims allegations, using a peer-reviewed study to challenge HGSA’s analysis of billing practices. Negotiated integrity agreement with HHS Inspector General’s Office in order to assure continued compliance with Medicare regulations.
  
  
• Prepared Service Provider Contracts and employment contracts for Radiology Practice assuring compliance with Medicare and Medicaid regulations.

Employment and Personnel Actions:

• Defended medical practice in a suite filed by a physician employee seeking to void a restrictive covenant not to compete clause of an employment contract.
  
  
• Represented physician employees in employment contract negotiations with hospital and health system employers.
  
  
• Designed and implemented a compliance program for a hospital facility.
  
  
• Defended physicians and registered nurses regarding licensure issues, including voluntary recovery program contracts.
  
  
• Represented physician in age and sex discrimination case before internal grievance board and EEOC mediation.

Professional Licensing and Physician Disciplinary Actions:

• Represented pharmacist in criminal charges and license revocation proceedings arising from alleged diversion of medication from retail pharmacy, which were sent overseas to individuals in need.

• Represented pharmacist in administrative proceeding concerning a prescription error.

• Represented nurse practitioner in administrative proceeding concerning standards of practice.

• Represented registered nurse in state Board of Nursing disciplinary actions.

• Represented therapist in administrative licensing proceeding concerning standards of practice.

Insurance Fraud Claims:

• Represented dentists in state criminal investigation into upcoding and other billing practices involving claims submitted to third party administrator for insurance company.
  
  
• Represented physician in litigation with insurance company which was seeking recovery of funds paid to accident victim for medical services that insurance company claimed had never been provided.

Commercial Litigation:

• Represented nursing care provider and home health care provider in breach of contract litigation against franchisee home health care provider.
  
  
• Represented physician and medical practice in defense of an age discrimination claim filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and in the state court.

Contact the healthcare lawyers at Michelman & Bricker, P.C., for skilled, experienced, and effective legal advice and representation. 

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  Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the health care, employment, construction, family law, criminal defense, business law, and environmental law attorneys of Michelman & Bricker, P.C., serve clients throughout Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks, Chester, Camden, Bergen, Burlington, Middlesex, and Gloucester counties, including the communities of Doylestown, Harrisburg, Reading, Pottstown, Allentown, Easton, Scranton, Media, Norristown, Camden, Trenton, and Newark. The firm’s lawyers also have offices in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Longmeadow (Springfield), Massachusetts and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and serve clients along the Eastern Seaboard.