The healthcare and pharmaceutical industries are highly regulated and evolving and transforming rapidly. Our team’s wide-ranging practice advises clients, from individuals to corporations of all sizes, through the life cycle of their healthcare and pharmaceutical-related business.

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s Healthcare and Pharmacy Practice assists healthcare businesses, pharmacies, individual pharmacists, home healthcare agencies, medical practices, physician co-ops, physicians, independent physician associations, and medical-related companies in navigating the complex business and regulatory environment while helping them meet their business goals.

Leveraging our multidisciplinary approach and geographical experience, our team advises clients on all aspects of the ownership, operation, and buying and selling of a pharmacy, healthcare-related business, or medical practice. Clients rely on our broad knowledge of the regulatory requirements involved in transferring pharmacy and medical practice ownership and setting up new locations. We coordinate the legal process among state licensing boards, Medicare and Medicaid, suppliers, vendors, and the other entities on which the practices depend.

We provide counsel across a wide range of matters including:

• Compliance with Anti-kickback and STARK laws
• Corporate matters, including business formation, mergers and acquisitions, and purchase and sales agreements
• Disciplinary investigations and actions, including medical license defense
• DME accreditation
• Healthcare fraud defense and avoidance strategies
• Federal and state criminal investigations
• Civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)
• HIPAA compliance
• Licensing and permits, including equipment, software, inspections, and real property contracts and leases
• Medical license defense
• Managed and third-party payor contracting
• Construction and commercial lease disputes and other complex commercial litigation matters
• Medical-based commercial litigation, including PBM contracting and litigation
• Medicare and Medicaid related applications, audits, and investigations
• Overpayment disputes and appeals, including pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) and government payors
• Procurement of NPI, NCDP, and DEA numbers
   

We utilize a cross-service approach to assist on related matters including labor & employment, corporate, real estate, intellectual property, commercial litigation, and white collar.