Overview
Winstead PC has experience in a wide range of transactions, compliance and dispute resolution matters involving the growing and dynamic healthcare business sector. We seek creative solutions to the difficult issues our clients face. We deploy the resources of our integrated firm, with a strategic combination of big-picture perspective and industry-specific technical and tactical knowledge.
We represent hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, home health agencies, wellness companies, third party administrators, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device manufacturers and various healthcare facilities, vendors and business entities on transactions, litigation, government investigations, and corporate and regulatory healthcare issues.
Regulatory
Our attorneys know the healthcare business is highly regulated at federal and state levels. We handle a range of statutory and regulatory issues including compliance matters relating to HIPAA/HITECH privacy and security, the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, other fraud and abuse laws, facility licensure, accreditation and governance; Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement; managed care contracting; and healthcare reform legislation.
Government Relations
We represent healthcare clients before federal, state and local governments, positioning their concerns at the forefront of the agendas of legislative and regulatory decision makers. Our achievements include securing federal appropriations for non-profit health research institutions.
Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions
Our corporate lawyers play key roles in representing healthcare clients in their business transactions. We have first-hand knowledge and experience in the healthcare industry and deliver a practical, hands-on approach to closing deals without overlawyering the process. Matters regularly handled by these attorneys include entity formations and capitalizations; tax planning; private placements; recapitalizations; financings and refinancings; and acquisitions, dispositions and other liquidity transactions. Our health law attorneys regularly conduct healthcare due diligence for business transactions or in support of a client's corporate counsel.
Healthcare Facilities Real Estate Development & Leasing Transactions
We represent hospitals, healthcare systems, healthcare real estate developers and investors in the development, acquisition, financing and disposition of real estate assets on a national platform. Our Healthcare Facilities Real Estate Practice includes land use planning, economic development, project finance, and construction. We assist our clients in structuring hospital campus transactions, healthcare uses in mixed-use developments and medical condominiums. Whether representing landlords or tenants, our healthcare experience also includes space leases, build-to-suit, ground lease transactions and special use leases for healthcare facilities.
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Insurance & Administrative
Our administrative law attorneys handle a variety of matters on behalf of our healthcare clients before the Texas Department of Insurance, the Texas Attorney General, and other administrative bodies. Our longstanding relationships with governmental authorities provide our clients with unique accessibility to agencies important to healthcare industry participants. As a result, we offer our clients a range of solutions that align business interests and public policy.
Labor & Employment
Winstead attorneys advise our healthcare clients on all aspects of employee-employer relationships. Conflict prevention is a major component of our practice; however, when disputes do arise, we help our clients minimize risks by ensuring regulatory compliance and protecting our clients' interests.
Commercial Litigation
Representing our healthcare clients in commercial litigation is a significant portion of our practice. We leverage the knowledge, resources, and experience of our full-service business law firm with a litigation bench of 50 attorneys strong. When litigation is necessary, we work vigorously to protect our clients' rights and interests, while helping evaluate, manage, and control the risks, costs, and uncertainties associated with litigation.
Information Technology, Biotechnology & Life Sciences
Powering innovations in information technology, biotechnology and life sciences, Winstead helps clients make the most of their investments, ideas and inventions. From small start-ups to integrated corporations, Winstead’s biotechnology attorneys address and understand each stage of company growth. We counsel biotech innovators, organizations and investors through a wide range of phases and issues. We advise pharmaceutical manufacturers, software vendors and medical device companies on their interactions with healthcare providers and governmental healthcare programs. Our health law attorneys assist healthcare providers to evaluate and negotiate electronic health records and outsourced information technology agreements.