Healthcare

Today's healthcare providers are subject to an ever-increasing and constantly evolving number of regulatory requirements that require experienced legal counsel who have a clear understanding of the wide range of issues that providers may encounter. Our experienced health care lawyers deliver strategic, innovative, solution-driven legal counsel to healthcare providers, suppliers, and organizations navigating today's complex regulatory landscape. We emphasize prevention, compliance, and strategic regulatory planning to help our healthcare clients operate confidently, minimize risk, and adapt to the evolving demands of the healthcare regulatory landscape.

Our practice is built on deep experience in compliance, licensure, regulatory affairs, and healthcare business development and operations, including fraud and abuse, physician self-referral, HIPAA, false claims, professional disciplinary matters, medical staff matters, professional service agreements, as well as labor and employment issues. Our healthcare practice includes attorneys who have extensive experience in health care regulation and in state and federal government and administrative law. We collaborate with clients' corporate transactional, development, employment and government relations teams on litigation, regulatory, transactional and compliance matters to deliver integrated solutions tailored to each client's unique needs.

Our team has represented healthcare providers across the healthcare continuum, including hospitals and multi-hospital systems, physician practices and networks, long-term care, skilled nursing, and assisted living facilities, hospices, home health agencies, pharmacies and durable medical equipment providers, imaging centers and diagnostic facilities, trade associations and healthcare service providers, pharmacy benefit managers, and third party payors.

Panza Maurer assists clients with complex licensure and certification matters before state and federal regulatory bodies, including the Agency for Health Care Administration, the Department of Health, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Our licensure services include initial licensure and certification applications, Certificate of Need applications and litigation, change of ownership (CHOW) approvals, facility expansions and service line additions, regulatory compliance reviews, plan of correction development, and defense in administrative proceedings and enforcement actions.

Through our Tallahassee presence, Panza Maurer represents healthcare clients before the Florida Legislature and state agencies on legislative and regulatory matters. We monitor policy developments, advise on regulatory reform, and advocate for client interests in healthcare, insurance, and related sectors.