Health Law

Healthcare providers face many challenges as a result of being part of a heavily regulated, dynamic industry.  Potter Anderson & Corroon attorneys have the privilege of helping our healthcare clients achieve innovative solutions to complex issues.  We represent a wide range of healthcare clients, including individual physicians, group practices, long-term care facilities, hospitals, managed care organizations, and providers of in-home medical services, among others.  Our health law practitioners have an in-depth knowledge of fraud and abuse laws and other regulatory requirements, licensing and certification criteria, employment issues, compliance plans, confidentiality and informed consent issues, including HIPAA privacy and security requirements, antitrust law, Medicare and Medicaid requirements, managed care and health care contracting, medical necessity determinations, credentialing and medical staff issues, financing, and transactional matters.  We regularly represent healthcare clients in proceedings before administrative agencies, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, the Division of Long Term Care Residents Protection, and the Division of Professional Regulation, as well as in litigation before the Departmental Appeals Board and state and federal courts.

The firm's health law practitioners are active members of several health law-related organizations and committees, including the Health Law Sections of the American and Delaware State Bar Associations, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Delaware Health Care Facilities Association, and the Board of Advisors of the Health Law Institute of the Widener University School of Law.

Representative Matters

Representative engagements include:

  • purchases and sales of long-term care facilities
  • appeals of nursing home survey deficiencies and remedies
  • defense of MCO medical necessity determinations
  • defense of nursing homes in malpractice actions
  • defense of physician practice in EEOC investigation of sexual harassment charges
  • collective bargaining on behalf of nursing home management

Sub-Practice areas include:

  • Behavioral Health
  • Confidentiality of Medical Records
  • Death and Dying Issues and Patient's Rights
  • Health Insurance Plans
  • Home Health Care
  • Hospitals
  • Labor Relations and Employment Law
  • Long-Term Care Facilities
  • Medicare and Medicaid
  • Patient Care/Licensure/Risk Management
  • Physician Practices