301 N Columbia Street, Covington, Louisiana, 70433-2917
Practice Areas : Estate Planning
301 Main Street, Suite 2300, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70821-3197
Practice Areas : Health Care Law
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Business Law
300 Stewart Street, Lafayette, Louisiana, 70501
Practice Areas : Health Care Law
600 Jefferson Street, Suite 1101, Lafayette, Louisiana, 70501
Practice Areas : Business Law
600 Jefferson Street, Suite 1101, Lafayette, Louisiana, 70501
Practice Areas : Energy
400 Convention Street, Suite 700, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802
Practice Areas : Health Care Law
200 Corporate Blvd, Ste. 200, Lafayette, Louisiana, 70508
Practice Areas : Appeals & Appellate
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Health care attorneys advise providers, practices and facilities: licensing and certificate of need, Medicare and Medicaid participation and reimbursement, fraud and abuse rules including Stark and anti-kickback, HIPAA and data breach response, medical staff and credentialing disputes, practice transactions, and payer contracting.
They also represent professionals before licensing boards and in audits. The area is dense with regulation where technical non-compliance can carry serious consequences, so most of the value is preventive.
Before you hire
- Bring compensation arrangements and referral relationships for review before they start, not after an audit letter arrives.
- If a payer audit or board complaint has landed, treat the first response as the most important document in the matter.
- Ask whether the attorney handles the regulatory side, the transactional side or litigation — and who covers the parts they do not.
Medical malpractice, white collar defence and business law cover adjacent problems.
Health Care Law: frequently asked questions
What is the HIPAA law?
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the federal law that sets national rules for the privacy and security of health information. It limits how providers, health plans and their contractors may use and share your records, and it gives you the right to see and correct them.
What is the Stark law?
The Stark law is the US physician self-referral law. It bars a doctor from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients for certain designated health services to an entity the doctor — or an immediate family member — has a financial relationship with, unless the arrangement fits a written exception.