Overview
Manatt Health works with leading health systems, academic medical centers, and children’s hospitals to navigate today’s most complex challenges—combining deep legal and regulatory experience with strategic, business and policy insight.
Our integrated model brings together a unified team to deliver customized, actionable solutions across all mission areas: clinical care, research, education and community engagement.
Enterprise-wide strategies for innovation and growth
We support institutions in designing and executing enterprise-wide strategies, advancing delivery system transformation across the continuum and optimizing reimbursement and policy engagement. Our team advises on high-stakes strategic planning and investment, transactions and affiliations, regulatory compliance and litigation, including mergers and affiliations, Stark and Anti-Kickback compliance, internal investigations and False Claims Act defense.
Manatt is at the forefront of innovation, advising on artificial intelligence (AI) governance, digital transformation and commercialization of research. Our privacy and data security team helps institutions navigate HIPAA compliance, information blocking and cybersecurity risks and incident recovery with tailored legal and operational frameworks.
With a nationwide team of health-focused professionals, Manatt offers the scale, specialization and collaborative approach needed to drive results in rapidly evolving health care environments.
- Strategic planning and program development
- Value-based care
- Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations, corporate structure
- Digital health and AI strategy
- Biomedical research program optimization
- Medicaid innovation and community engagement
- Innovation and commercialization
“Routinely represents an impressive roster of provider and payor clients in complex litigation, transactions and regulatory matters, alongside wider strengths in policy issues.”
— Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
- Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations and corporate structure
- Antitrust and competition
- Board governance, structure and best practices, bylaw review, board training, committee structure, fiduciary duties, tax exempt issues
- Health care litigation
- Investigations, compliance and white collar defense
- Privacy and data security (cybersecurity)
- Executive compensation and employee benefits
- Government and regulatory investigations and advisement
- Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and financing
- Medical staff matters
- Intellectual property agreements
- Payer agreements, including risk-bearing and value-based arrangements
- AI, technology and other vendor contracts
- Risk assessment and workplan development, including enterprise risk, compliance and risk management
