Healthcare

Overview

The healthcare practice is witnessing an ongoing evolution in quality, access, and delivery is continuing to evolve, with the COVID-19 pandemic accelerating long-developing legal trends in healthcare law. Our team of healthcare attorneys bring experience and industry knowledge can help your organization achieve its goals, as consumers demand new and innovative ways to access care. We help identify new market opportunities, drive strategic growth, and secure competitive advantages for clients across the industry, ranging from health systems to telemedicine startups. Whether its regulatory issues, HIPAA compliance, or litigation concerns, our healthcare attorneys deliver unmatched value and extensive knowledge. A recognized leader in healthcare law, Nixon Peabody is guiding clients through this transformational moment in the healthcare sector.

Representative experience

• Digital health and telemedicine company: Represent a virtual care company focused on innovative platforms, and at home testing services and products, in regulatory compliance, corporate transactions, counseling, and contracting matters
• Leading private equity firm: Serve as healthcare regulatory counsel in ongoing transactions, including the sale of its portfolio company and the purchase of a multi-state DSO, and continuing representation of the DSO on add-on acquisitions
• National not-for-profit organization: Provide corporate, regulatory, and managed care advice for a nonprofit focused on mental health and wellness 
• Reproductive medicine startup: Assist a men’s health and cryobanking company in regulatory compliance, transactions, GDPR, and HIPAA matters
• Federally qualified health center: Represented one of the nation’s largest health centers in their merger with a leading nonprofit provider of integrated primary care, behavioral care, dental, and substance abuse services; our team continues to serve as outside corporate counsel for the combined entity
• Nonprofit health system: Serve as primary healthcare counsel for the health system’s California facilities, as well as primary healthcare and IT/licensing counsel for their digital innovation operating division, which incubates joint ventures with and invests in digital health products and services
• Provider of healthcare information technology solutions: Advise the company in connection with fraud and abuse analysis of its operations, federal and state privacy compliance, and integrating its pharmaceutical technology products with certain EHR vendors
• Nationwide leader of home care services and assisted living facilities: Provide regulatory and transactional advice on significant acquisitions, contractual arrangements, and Medicaid reimbursement

Recognition

• Nixon Peabody has been named a Tier 1 National firm for Health Care Law in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms® and in consecutive years prior; named “Law Firm of the Year” in Healthcare Law by Best Law Firms in 2016
• The Legal 500 United States 2024 editorial—ranked for Healthcare: Service providers, as well as in previous editions
• Recognized as a top law firm in Healthcare by the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section
• Ranked nationally as one of the largest healthcare firms by Modern Healthcare