Few lawyers know health care the way Kennedy Childs & Fogg, P.C. does. Not only have our lawyers spent decades practicing in this area of the law, but members of our team have also worked in medicine, making us uniquely suited to transform your complex health care issues into common sense strategies that mitigate risk and exposure, resolve challenges before they become legal issues, and achieve verdicts in line with your short and long-range objectives.
In an environment of increasing complexity, governmental regulation, and competitiveness, our lawyers help health care professionals, hospitals and other health facilities, including long-term care, address:
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance and issues;
- State and federal antitrust compliance to avoid civil and criminal penalties;
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) compliance, defense and litigation;
- Fraud and abuse allegations;
- Employment issues, including defense of harassment and discrimination claims, as well as employment contracts, policies, and procedures to avoid litigation;
- General corporate and business counsel, including entity formation, business contracts, vendor agreements, and real estate matters;
- Managed care contracts;
- Payment issues;
- Credentialing and peer review processes.
Doctors' groups, hospitals, care facilities, clinics, and licensed medical professionals count on KCF to advise them along the full continuum of legal issues, from risk mitigation and avoidance to business law and litigation. Our team understands the challenging health care environment and our experience enables us to offer counsel across the health care continuum in an age of increasing regulations and shifting government and competitive forces.
Our veteran group of counselors and litigators is particularly well-versed in the defense of medical devices and drugs. With a team comprised of former doctors, nurses, para-professionals, and others who have spent decades focused on the defense of complex medical claims, our attorneys understand medical procedures and medicine, are abreast of current medical technology and procedures, can efficiently boil down complex medical processes and language for lay person consumption, and call on a network of experts from across the country who can help them craft effective strategies for medical products dispute resolution, be it litigation, settlement or other forms of resolution.
The KCF Value
Health care law professionals – Our professionals have spent decades working closely with health care providers, facility operators and hospitals, advising on strategies to avoid risk and avoid costly and protracted disputes. We know the regulatory and government environment, and we understand the challenges you and your team faces every day in the health care arena.
Committed to managing risk – In an increasingly litigious environment, we can bring a perspective that helps manage or avoid risk in the health care arena. Integrated with our team of business and employment lawyers, the KCF health care team works proactively and collaboratively with our clients to put safeguards and other measures in place that help mitigate risk and exposure to health care litigation. We develop and implement processes that ensure compliance with government regulations and state and federal laws. Our employment team reduces the risk of employee disputes and suits through real-world policies, training and ongoing supervisor and employee education. And our business team assists with vendor, real estate and business contracts that protect you over the term of your business.
Seasoned trial lawyers – Fully integrated with our trial lawyers, our health care group works to keep you out of the courtroom and the court of public opinion, leveraging our experience and our relationships to do so. But when litigation is the necessary course of action, we are ready with a team of aggressive trial attorneys widely respected for their ability to try complex health care matters with maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
Fighting for your interests – The decision to arbitrate, mediate, settle or try a health care case must weigh all the impacts and interests at stake. Our team takes an active approach to evaluating health care issues at the outset – defining our clients' objectives and interests first – before determining a course of action.