Healthcare

In the field of innovation and competitiveness, the healthcare sector is diverse and constantly evolving, and the legal framework and privatization trends are having a noticeable effect on the industry, resulting in changes. We provide comprehensive advice to companies active in the healthcare industry in all matters involving health legislation.

Our approach

Our clients include especially hospitals and care homes owned/operated by public, private and non-profit organisations, medical treatment centres, SHI-accredited physicians including medical professional associations, group practices, manufacturers of medical products and in-vitro diagnostics, pharmaceuticals or biotechnological products, and providers of digital health services & life sciences.

Our experienced experts in medical law are familiar with the specific issues of the healthcare sector, which – also due to the tightly state-regulated environment – affect a wide range of legal areas of public and private law. We naturally also advise our clients on the specific interdependencies between healthcare law and related regulatory areas such as, in particular, corporate, tax and labour law, and data protection. In addition, we collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of numerous healthcare experts with both economic and legal expertise.

Our services

In the area of healthcare, we offer the following consulting services:

Transaction / M&A, restructuring

• Comprehensive support of sales and purchasing processes for supported hospitals, private clinics, medical treatment centres, professional associations/practices, or care homes, outpatient care services, other medical care providers, and social enterprises
• Structuring of transactions with regard to the legal and tax-related aspects, legal due diligence, contract formulation and negotiation, privatisation measures, insourcing/outsourcing projects, and post-merger integration
• Consulting for strategic investors and capital investors

Consulting for hospital owners/operators

• Legal ramifications with regard to hospitals, hospital planning, hospital financing, and remuneration rights
• Grants and subsidies
• Consulting and assistance with drawing up contracts related to strategic planning and personnel deployment planning (e.g., contracts with chief physicians, consulting physicians, attending physicians, and fee-based physicians)
• Consulting and representation in negotiations and disputes with payers and administrative authorities

Consulting for care facilities

• Legal ramifications with regard to nursing insurance and nursing home legislation
• Consulting and contract formulation support as well as representation in negotiations and disputes with payers and administrative authorities

Consulting for physicians and dentists

• Consultation and contract formulation support when establishing a practice
• Sale or acquisition of a practice (civil law and accreditation law) in strategic development and cooperation planning, e.g., supra-local and cooperative professional practice (professional law, health insurance physician law, and civil law / corporate law)
• Requirements planning and compensation issues
• Performance audits
• Disciplinary law

Consulting for professional associations

• Consulting and contract formulation support in connection with the association’s activities (statutes, codes of conduct, and legal expertise)

Consulting for all players in the medical devices & in-vitro diagnostics industry

• Market access and reimbursement
• Regulatory affairs
• Distribution rights
• Liability issues
• Cooperation and compliance
• Contract formulation
• Legal disputes

Consulting for all players in the pharmaceuticals & biotech industry

• Market access and reimbursement
• Distribution rights
• Liability issues
• Cooperation and compliance
• Contract formulation
• Legal disputes

Consulting for all players in the field of digital health services & life sciences industry

• Market access
• Distribution rights
• Liability issues
• Cooperation and compliance
• Contract formulation

Healthcare compliance

• Contract management
• Anti-corruption
• Cooperation among medical service providers and with medical device manufacturers and drug manufacturers as well as other market players
• Risk management
• Planning
• Implementation, testing, and assessment of compliance management systems

Collaboration in the health sector

• Medical treatment centres (MVZ)
• Medical joint practices/group practices
• Outpatient-inpatient collaborations
• Use of new forms of healthcare provision

Litigation

• Legal representation in the social, administrative, and civil justice system (accreditation law and hospital planning law, performance audit/fee recourse, compensation litigation involving outpatient and inpatient service providers, and medical liability)

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