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Who We Are Our People Practices News and Events Insights Offices Join Us Diversity Home > Practices > Healthcare Healthcare A Strong Team for Challenging Times Manatt is home to one of the top healthcare law and consulting practices in the United States. With more than 50 professionals dedicated exclusively to healthcare clients, Manatt has emerged as one of the most trusted advisors to government, not-for-profit organizations and private companies seeking to understand and adapt to the new imperatives of health reform. We work broadly across the healthcare industry, representing state policymakers and agencies, payers and healthcare providers, foundations, associations, and product and service vendors. Manatt excels in the intersection of law, policy and practice, reflecting our deep experience in the issues that are transforming the healthcare industry. Manatt’s team includes leading attorneys, consultants, project managers, analysts and policy advisors. Team members have held executive positions with federal and state agencies, associations, major healthcare institutions and leading consultancies. As a result, when Manatt advises on issues, strategy, transactions or litigation, we do so with the ability to integrate legal, regulatory, political and operational considerations, and to design solutions and produce actionable recommendations rooted in the practical realities of public policy, legal requirements, and business imperatives. What distinguishes Manatt’s healthcare practice is the depth of its substantive knowledge and its ability to field teams of professionals who can help client management teams define and implement complex strategies. To support its work, Manatt maintains a federal and state information service that allows Manatt professionals and Manatt clients to remain current on emerging developments in payment policy, delivery system reform and insurance reform. Manatt’s capabilities include: *World-class transaction practice.* Our extensive experience in healthcare transactional work has placed us at the center of many important transactions in recent years. Manatt healthcare transactional attorneys are often called on to deploy comprehensive teams to address issues related to transaction planning and negotiation, due diligence, healthcare transactional regulatory matters (including antitrust, Medicare and Medicaid audits, investigations, compliance and certification, anti-kickback issues, and licensing and accreditation), debt issues, and corporate restructuring. Our healthcare attorneys handle the full range of healthcare industry transactional matters, including hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions, provider integration transactions, financings of all types, joint venture transactions, and workout and turnaround projects. *A nationally ranked litigation practice.* Our healthcare litigators have been at the forefront of virtually every significant litigation issue of the past several years including rescission, capitation, vicarious liability, and ERISA preemption. Our litigators regularly defend and win significant class actions for our provider and payer clients. Our class action victories have resulted in the making of new laws impacting consumer health insurance rates, provider reimbursement, antitrust issues, nursing home staffing and the freedom of entities to publish information measuring provider performance; protecting consumers and supporting their choices. *Highly effective healthcare regulatory practice.* Hospitals, health plans, clinics and other healthcare services are subject to a bewildering array of federal, state and private regulation from multiple branches of CMS, as well as FDA, IRS, FTC, DOJ, OIG, state attorneys general, state Medicaid agencies, state licensing agencies and private accreditation bodies such as The Joint Commission. Manatt lawyers have extensive experience dealing with these agencies, and many were involved with the related agencies before coming to Manatt. Our professionals work daily with the underlying regulations in matters of interpretation, related business transactions, agency contact, regulatory comment and enforcement matters. Our success is evidenced in providing our clients with comprehensive and practical understanding of the regulation and the regulators, as well as finding sensible solutions in the real world. *A first-class consulting practice.* Manatt’s consulting practice – Manatt Health Solutions – understands the complexities of government health insurance programs and federal and state financing mechanisms. This ability, combined with knowledge of payer requirements and provider delivery systems, enables the firm to develop innovative and strategic solutions for both public and private sector clients. Manatt is engaged in a broad range of cutting-edge initiatives, including the design and implementation of health benefit exchanges, health information exchanges, and new models for the payment and delivery of healthcare services through accountable care organizations, medical homes and other hospital-physician-payer collaboration approaches. The Manatt team possesses deep technical knowledge of government programs, including proficiency in the eligibility, benefits, financing and administration of Medicaid, and CHIP, and in the interpretation and implementation of Medicare reimbursement and policy requirements. Manatt professionals are leading complex strategy engagements for state governments, major insurance companies, major health delivery systems and leading pharmaceutical companies. Manatt is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top firms in healthcare by Chambers USA. Seventeen of our health attorneys were ranked individually as national leaders in health law by Chambers USA, and five received the highest rating in the publication’s annual review. Overview Areas of Focus Attorneys & Advisors Selected Clients Contacts Press Releases Press Coverage Newsletters Events Articles By Us White Papers

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A Strong Team for Challenging Times
Manatt is home to one of the top healthcare law and consulting practices in the United States. With more than 50 professionals dedicated exclusively to healthcare clients, Manatt has emerged as one of the most trusted advisors to government, not-for-profit organizations and private companies seeking to understand and adapt to the new imperatives of health reform.

We work broadly across the healthcare industry, representing state policymakers and agencies, payers and healthcare providers, foundations, associations, and product and service vendors. Manatt excels in the intersection of law, policy and practice, reflecting our deep experience in the issues that are transforming the healthcare industry.

Manatt’s team includes leading attorneys, consultants, project managers, analysts and policy advisors. Team members have held executive positions with federal and state agencies, associations, major healthcare institutions and leading consultancies. As a result, when Manatt advises on issues, strategy, transactions or litigation, we do so with the ability to integrate legal, regulatory, political and operational considerations, and to design solutions and produce actionable recommendations rooted in the practical realities of public policy, legal requirements, and business imperatives.

What distinguishes Manatt’s healthcare practice is the depth of its substantive knowledge and its ability to field teams of professionals who can help client management teams define and implement complex strategies. To support its work, Manatt maintains a federal and state information service that allows Manatt professionals and Manatt clients to remain current on emerging developments in payment policy, delivery system reform and insurance reform.

Manatt’s capabilities include:

World-class transaction practice. Our extensive experience in healthcare transactional work has placed us at the center of many important transactions in recent years. Manatt healthcare transactional attorneys are often called on to deploy comprehensive teams to address issues related to transaction planning and negotiation, due diligence, healthcare transactional regulatory matters (including antitrust, Medicare and Medicaid audits, investigations, compliance and certification, anti-kickback issues, and licensing and accreditation), debt issues, and corporate restructuring. Our healthcare attorneys handle the full range of healthcare industry transactional matters, including hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions, provider integration transactions, financings of all types, joint venture transactions, and workout and turnaround projects.
A nationally ranked litigation practice. Our healthcare litigators have been at the forefront of virtually every significant litigation issue of the past several years including rescission, capitation, vicarious liability, and ERISA preemption. Our litigators regularly defend and win significant class actions for our provider and payer clients. Our class action victories have resulted in the making of new laws impacting consumer health insurance rates, provider reimbursement, antitrust issues, nursing home staffing and the freedom of entities to publish information measuring provider performance; protecting consumers and supporting their choices.
Highly effective healthcare regulatory practice. Hospitals, health plans, clinics and other healthcare services are subject to a bewildering array of federal, state and private regulation from multiple branches of CMS, as well as FDA, IRS, FTC, DOJ, OIG, state attorneys general, state Medicaid agencies, state licensing agencies and private accreditation bodies such as The Joint Commission. Manatt lawyers have extensive experience dealing with these agencies, and many were involved with the related agencies before coming to Manatt. Our professionals work daily with the underlying regulations in matters of interpretation, related business transactions, agency contact, regulatory comment and enforcement matters. Our success is evidenced in providing our clients with comprehensive and practical understanding of the regulation and the regulators, as well as finding sensible solutions in the real world.
A first-class consulting practice. Manatt’s consulting practice – Manatt Health Solutions – understands the complexities of government health insurance programs and federal and state financing mechanisms. This ability, combined with knowledge of payer requirements and provider delivery systems, enables the firm to develop innovative and strategic solutions for both public and private sector clients. Manatt is engaged in a broad range of cutting-edge initiatives, including the design and implementation of health benefit exchanges, health information exchanges, and new models for the payment and delivery of healthcare services through accountable care organizations, medical homes and other hospital-physician-payer collaboration approaches. The Manatt team possesses deep technical knowledge of government programs, including proficiency in the eligibility, benefits, financing and administration of Medicaid, and CHIP, and in the interpretation and implementation of Medicare reimbursement and policy requirements. Manatt professionals are leading complex strategy engagements for state governments, major insurance companies, major health delivery systems and leading pharmaceutical companies.

Manatt is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s top firms in healthcare by Chambers USA. Seventeen of our health attorneys were ranked individually as national leaders in health law by Chambers USA, and five received the highest rating in the publication’s annual review.