Our Practice
Snell & Wilmer has enjoyed a close collaborative relationship with our region’s health care community for more than 60 years. Snell & Wilmer regularly represents health care providers, including hospital systems such as Scottsdale Healthcare; national health care organizations; physician professional organizations, including the Arizona Medical Association and Maricopa County Medical Society; research organizations, including the Nevada Cancer Institute; nursing homes; assisted living facilities; residential care centers; ambulatory surgery centers; independent diagnostic testing facilities; hospices; clinical laboratories; pharmacies; imaging centers; sleep clinics; and many individual providers and groups.
In addition, Snell & Wilmer regularly represents payor and insurance organizations, such as professional liability insurers, third-party payors, health maintenance organizations and captive insurers; and tax-exempt entities including non-profit health care providers, private foundations, and public charities. The firm has broad experience providing advice and representation to health care organizations in a broad array of regulatory and compliance matters related to federal and state fraud and abuse laws and regulations, reimbursement, credentialing and employment of providers, joint ventures and physician-entity integration, best practices in compensation and contracting, and value-based purchasing, and contracting with providers.
Snell & Wilmer has assisted with the formation of a wide range of provider entities and networks and regularly counsels clients on transactions and federal and state compliance and regulatory matters as described below. Our clients rely upon the firm for corporate and business legal counsel, including tax and non-profit advice as well as litigation and insurance-related services.
Because we recognize that litigation poses serious threats to health care organizations, providers, health product manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies, Snell & Wilmer lawyers are actively involved in both the defense of business and catastrophic injury lawsuits and tort reform efforts. Snell & Wilmer lawyers frequently evaluate state and federal law reform proposals, draft bills, facilitate access to decision makers and provide legislative testimony on matters of importance to our clients and communities.
Snell & Wilmer views health care as an important regional practice focus in which our clients benefit from the depth and breadth of our lawyers’ experience, commitment to the health care community and advocacy of public policies that encourage the delivery of high quality cost-effective care.
Our health care practice includes:
Business Law Services:
- Transactions
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Financings
- Contracts and agreements
- Competition and antitrust
- Employee benefits
- Governance
- Intellectual property
- Professional employment agreements
- Labor and union organizing
- Bankruptcy and reorganizations
- Real estate
Litigation Services:
- Government investigations and audits
- Internal investigations
- Professional liability defense
- Business litigation
- Antitrust
- Product liability defense
Non-Profit and Tax-Exempt Entity Services:
- Governance
- Tax-exempt financing
- Private foundation compliance
- Private benefit and inurement
- Unrelated business income tax
- Tax reporting matters
- Tax-exempt applications and filings
Regulatory and Compliance Services:
- Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Law
- Corporate compliance plans
- Medicare and Medicaid compliance
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
- Health facilities licensure
- Certificates of Need (CONs)
- Medical staff credentialing and governance
- Accreditation
- Risk management and quality
- Peer and utilization review
- HIPAA and HITECH
- State privacy
- FDA regulatory guidance
- Professional licensing
- Environmental and bio hazards
- Legislation and government regulations
- Scope of practice
- Bio and medical ethics
- Corporate practice of medicine
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
