Wilson Elser has developed a highly skilled team of attorneys who are experienced in handling the myriad transactions and issues faced by the rapidly evolving health care community. Headquartered in Albany, N.Y., but drawing upon the multidisciplinary talents of Wilson Elser attorneys throughout the country, our team of health care attorneys is fully conversant with the complex legal and regulatory issues impacting today's health care industry. Our Healthcare practice deals with state agencies in regulating the nursing home industry.
We offer clients a full array of transactional, regulatory and litigation services related to health care matters. In addition, the health care team maintains a close working relationship with the firm's preeminent government affairs practice, which offers clients a unique synergy to address their issues in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
Wilson Elser attorneys have extensive hands-on experience in assisting health care providers, both institutional and professional, in structuring their activities and operations. This experience includes guiding health care professionals in creating practice entities and structuring their operational systems and their affiliations and relationships with other providers, insurers and the government. We also are well versed in assisting health care professionals in licensing and disciplinary matters.
Wilson Elser also has a strong background in representing health care facilities, by virtue of its long-term counsel relationships with numerous hospitals, hospital networks and nursing homes. This representation encompasses a wide variety of matters, including the development of multiprovider joint ventures, mergers among existing providers, construction of new provider-owned facilities, as well as the renovation of existing facilities. In addition to handling all of the more traditional corporate and real estate aspects of these complex transactions, Wilson Elser attorneys are uniquely situated to assist the parties to a transaction in comprehensively analyzing and reviewing those critical considerations that uniquely apply to health care providers -considerations such as anti-kickback rules and regulations, self-referral issues, tax-exempt entity concerns, as well as the whole spectrum of federal and state fraud and abuse matters.
The firm is also experienced in representing clients with regard to their interactions with various state and federal regulatory agencies and authorities. We work closely with clients in preparing and expediting Certificate of Need (CON) matters, responding to Medicaid and Medicare audits and investigations, developing compliance plans, and numerous other regulatory matters. In addition, Wilson Elser is one of the premier litigation defense firms in the United States and has extensive, nationwide capabilities in all aspects of litigation-related matters, from employment law to medical malpractice actions.
Members of the health care law practice have long and varied experience in the health care community. They have held prominent leadership positions in both government, health care associations, and in other health care law firms, including Vice President of Government Relations to the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), legislative counsel to the Medical Society of the State of New York, director of the New York State Council on Health Care Financing, counsel to the New York State Senate Health Committee and general counsel to HANYS.