Health Care

Bowles Rice has a long history of assisting clients in the health care industry, providing cost-effective counsel and practical industry experience in all types of matters including transactional, regulatory and litigation.

We regularly represent hospitals, physicians and physicians groups, behavioral health providers and long-term care facilities. Our clients also include health maintenance organizations, other managed care organizations and third-party administrators.

As needs arise, health care clients have direct access to all of the legal resources and services of our full-service firm, including litigation, labor and employment law, employee benefits and executive compensation, workers' compensation, real estate,  tax, environmental law and government relations.

We provide legal services to the health care industry related to:

• Disputes with Payors
• Licensing and Certification
• Medicaid/Medicare
• HIPAA and Health Privacy Laws
• Medical Staff Issues
• Fraud and Abuse/Stark/False Claims
• Certificate of Need
• Rate Setting
• Managed Care
• Strategic Positioning
• Health Care Contracting
• Advance Directives
• Acquisitions and Mergers
• Antitrust
• Medical Malpractice/Risk Management
• Business Organization
• Governance
• Risk Arrangements
• Informed Consent
• Health Care Litigation
• Affordable Care Act Compliance

We are committed to staying abreast of breaking developments in the rapidly changing health care industry, and our lawyers belong to many industry-related groups, including:

• American Health Lawyers Association
• American Bar Association, Health Law Section
• West Virginia Hospital Association
• West Virginia Medical Group Management Association
• West Virginia Rural Health Association
• Healthcare Financial Management Association

Bowles Rice lawyers are recognized in the area of Health Care Law by the leading peer-review organizations, including Chambers USA, U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Law Firms (which ranks Bowles Rice in its First Tier of West Virginia law firms), Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers.