Practice Areas
SEDLEY HEALTHCARE LAW represents healthcare provider organizations ranging from health systems to individual practitioners. Having worked inside large healthcare systems and as partners of law firms with significant healthcare practices, we offer an intuitive and practical understanding of the legal and regulatory problems facing healthcare providers. Our services cover a wide-spectrum, including provider organizational and operational issues, regulatory compliance, transactions, provider payment recovery, litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
Hospital - Medical Staff Relations/Peer Review
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Medical staff bylaw, rules, regulations, policies & procedures
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Practitioner credentialing
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Medical staff investigations, remedial actions and mandated reporting
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Peer review hearings, appeals and ancillary court proceedings
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Preservation of peer review immunities
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Governing board / peer review body issues
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Medical staff self-governance and operations
Healthcare Business Transactions
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Acquisition, sale and merger
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Organizational affiliation agreements
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Management services agreements
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Purchase and lease of equipment and real property
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Vendor relationships and agreements
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Marketing agreements
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Medical Foundation organizational and provider agreements
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Physician recruitment agreements
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Employment agreements
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Vendor agreements
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Hospital department - service closures, exclusive contracting, on-call coverage agreements
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Medical director agreements
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Telehealth agreements
Provider Regulatory Compliance
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Federal and state self-referral and anti-kickback laws
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Regulatory agency adverse actions; Compliance plans, programs, and investigations
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Billing and payment issues
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Medicare and Medi-Cal suspension actions
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Accreditation applications and actions
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Licensure applications, changes and actions
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Workplace discrimination issues
Healthcare Privacy and Security
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Electronic medical records / use and procurement
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Responding to subpoenas for medical records
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HIPAA privacy and compliance
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Data breach self-reporting
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HITECH and Omnibus Act
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Business associate agreements
Healthcare Litigation
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Hospital Medicare reimbursement / CMS disputes, hearings and litigation, Disproportionate Share Hospitals (DHS) and Graduate Medical Education (GME) reimbursement
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Professional licensing, investigations and hearings
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Partnership and employment disputes
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Contract and commercial disputes
Healthcare Provider Business Organizations
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Analysis of organizational options
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Formation documents and filings
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Financing agreements
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Organizational restructuring, affilations, mergers
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Organizational dissolution
Alternative Resolution of Healthcare Disputes
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Mediation
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Neutral case evaluation
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Arbitration
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Hearing officer for peer review hearings
Biomedical Ethics
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Patient decision-making capacity, privacy and informed consent
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Structuring healthcare facility bioethics committees
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End of life issues
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Clinical trial protocols, institutional review, compliance