Healthcare Litigation

The Healthcare Attorneys represent the healthcare industry in a wide variety of litigation matters. Like any business, healthcare businesses often find themselves involved in commercial disputes. Those disputes may involve contract breaches, partnership and corporate organization disputes, trademark and copyright infringement, employment matters, tort claims, antitrust scrutiny, or a variety of other legal claims. The Firm's litigators bring substantial experience and expertise to bear when clients are confronted with these litigation issues. The healthcare industry also faces threats of litigation that are very specific to laws and regulations that affect the industry. Our Healthcare Attorneys have substantial experience litigating these matter as well. We represent the healthcare industry in government and private investigations and related litigation involving Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, qui tam claims, licensure, disputes, and Stark and anti-kickback matters. We are frequently called upon to represent providers and healthcare businesses in responding to subpoenas issued by both private litigants and government prosecutors and investigators.

Some of the types of healthcare cases we have recently handled are:

• Defending Qui Tam cases involving alleged overcharges to Medicare
• Defended hospital in breach of contract and antitrust case involving refusal of hospital to renew physician building lease with radiologist in order to offer hospital-based radiology services to building tenants
• Defended a medical equipment supplier in breach of contract and intentional interference claim
• Defended hospital in breach of contract and interference with contract claim involving hiring of physician from staff physician in same department
• Represented hospital in debt collection and counterclaim of breach of contract and fraud arising from physician recruitment contract
• Defense of surgical equipment manufacturer in products liability wrongful death claim
• Representation of physicians in dissolution proceedings
• Representation of managed healthcare company in defense of claims ranging from breach of contract to negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, bad faith and fraud
• Physician antitrust cases involving termination of medical staff membership and clinical privileges
• Representation of nursing home in case of first impression that allowed use of binding arbitration in residency agreements
• Representing nursing homes in involuntary discharge actions
• Representation of Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma in administrative hearing and court action that allowed for them to provide nursing homes without insurance coverage from out-of-state carriers