Behavioral Health

Overview

The landscape of behavioral health solutions is undergoing significant transformation, spurred by recent legislative enactments involving mental health and substance use disorder. These enactments aim to enhance access to integrated behavioral healthcare, indicating increased awareness of patients’ needs, quality of care, and cost efficiencies. With M&A activity on the rise, the development of new supportive housing facilities, and improved methods for reducing service costs, there has never been a more transformational time for this field. Nixon Peabody can partner with you to navigate this complex and fast-moving environment. Our team’s work is expansive—from healthcare regulatory, private equity, and M&A, to supportive housing transactions and public finance work. Our behavioral health attorneys know your needs, and we have the experience to address your current concerns and help prepare you for future challenges. 

Representative experience

• Autism therapy operating company: Represented in general telehealth issues and on contracting with federal healthcare programs
• Telemedicine platform connecting doctors and patients for Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy: Represented in various regulatory and compliance matters
• Behavioral health organization servicing children on the autism spectrum: Serve as general counsel, providing guidance on healthcare and corporate structuring, labor and employment, real estate, and litigation
• Independent provider association: Counsel on health information privacy matters related to the association’s work with behavioral health, substance use, and community health centers
• Large social services organization: Represented in its merger discussions with a substance-abuse provider that also provided affordable housing
• Developmental disabilities provider: Represented in its merger with an entity providing mental health and substance abuse services
• Health system: Advised on the potential creation of a behavioral health clinical integration network (CIN)
• Mental health clinic: Represented in connection with regulatory and compliance issues, data privacy and HIPAA, and real estate matters
• National not-for-profit drug and alcohol treatment provider: Advised on a range of licensure, compliance, and corporate matters
• Independent physician association (IPA): Represented in connection with the negotiation of an infrastructure agreement for a new innovator ACO program, a physician participation agreement structure, and negotiation of a managed care contract

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
• Named as a leading firm in Healthcare by Chambers USA in 2021; 31 healthcare lawyers ranked
• 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