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Health & Medical Law

We Assist Physicians and Health Care Providers With Fraud Defense, Medical Contracts, Litigation, and Transactions

Health care entities face an increasingly challenging legal environment. This is true in everything from setting up a compliant practice to navigating fraud and abuse laws such as the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statutes, Federal False Claims Act / Civil Investigative Demands and more.

Health & Medical Law Practice Areas

Houston Health Care Lawyers

Serving Medical Professionals in Texas and Across the U.S.

At Hendershot Cowart P.C., our Houston health care lawyers have over 100 years of combined experience advising, consulting, and representing physicians, health care businesses, and medical facilities with a wide range of legal needs.

Our team of Houston medical attorneys regularly advise physicians, providers, and health care enterprises on a variety of legal and regulatory matters:

  • Medical practice setup, mergers, acquisitions.We set up medical practices and clinical laboratories in compliance with fraud and abuse laws such as the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, EKRA, and the Prohibition Against the Corporate Practice of Medicine.
  • Regulatory compliance.We establish individualized compliance plans for health care entities, including practices, clinics, freestanding emergency centers, ambulatory surgery centers, med spas, pharmacies, and hospitals.
  • Medical contracts, including physician employment agreements. We help physicians, practice owners, and other health care professionals review, draft and negotiate the terms of medical contracts and employment agreements.
  • Healthcare litigation. Healthcare is both a passion and a business, and – as with any business – breach of contract claims, partnership disagreements, and employment disputes will arise. Our litigation attorneys unite our healthcare and business law experience to guide you through complex claims and lawsuits unique to the healthcare industry, such as medical practice split-ups, MSO or DSO disputes, physician employment agreement claims, and more. 
  • Licensure and medical license defense.We defend medical professionals facing allegations and disciplinary actions against their Texas professional licenses. We also advise clients on credentialing and peer review proceedings at hospitals, and for managed care plans.
  • Third-party payors / prompt payment of claim. We have successfully brought claims in court and in arbitrations to enforce the provisions of the Texas Prompt Payment of Claims Act.
  • Regulatory audits and investigations. We regularly defend against investigations, audits, and claims of Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare Fraud, Stark/Anti-Kickback Statute violations, Federal False Claims Act violations, prescription fraud, RAC audits, UPIC audits, Novitas audits, TDI audits, MCO audits, OIG investigations, Civil Investigative Demands, and more.
  • Telemedicine and telehealth counsel. We advise health care clients on structuring a telemedicine or telehealth practice in compliance with state and federal regulations, including Texas’ Prohibition against the Corporate Practice of Medicine. We also provide responsive intervention, risk-mitigation, and defense against telemedicine fraud investigations.

We Counsel All Types of Health Care Providers and Medical Businesses, including:

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