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Practices: Policy Initiatives

Our Government lawyers provide healthcare clients with results-oriented representation before federal, state, municipal, and foreign governments and agencies. Our experience includes legislative and executive branch counseling, advocacy, negotiation, and preparation for hearings before, or presentations to, legislative and administrative bodies. Our lawyers maintain strong relationships with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as other federal agencies affecting the healthcare sector.

Using an established network of federal and state contacts, our lawyers frequently assist healthcare clients to develop and implement a federal legislative strategy designed to improve their national profile and take advantage of various funding opportunities offered by the federal government. The experience of our attorneys in this area includes:

Representing an association of single use device manufacturers to fend off efforts by device manufacturers to prohibit the re-use of single use devices.
Representing a coalition of 180 hospitals from 17 states that advocated that the Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization and Improvement Act of 2003 include a provision banning physician ownership of specialty hospitals.
Representing a national provider association in preparing a white paper on contractual provisions and legal remedies to ensure prompt payment from managed care organizations.
Representing a state hospital association in negotiating overpayments for DSH hospitals under an approved State Medicaid Plan.
Representing a hospital system in seeking designation as a center for purposes of Medicare payment for new technology.
Counseling numerous companies on compliance issues regarding FDA, Federal Trade Commission, EPA, USDA, U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and numerous state laws.
Representing hospitals in state approvals for the two largest hospital replacement projects in Illinois history.