Health Care

For decades, health care organizations and providers of all types—as well as state and national associations and professional societies active in health care policy issues—have relied on Wiggin and Dana to provide general and special counsel across a wide spectrum of issues.

Wiggin and Dana’s health care department has consistently been ranked in Band 1 of the Chambers USA Guide. Quotes from clients include: “they are technically excellent but they also understand the practical implications” and “the breadth of their knowledge and the depth of their bench is excellent.”

Our clients include:

• Academic medical centers, hospitals and health systems
• Long-term care facilities
• Continuing care retirement communities
• Assisted living facilities
• Home health care agencies
• Ambulatory service centers
• Outpatient clinics
• Behavioral health and substance abuse treatment providers
• Hospices
• PACE organizations
• Physicians and other individual practitioners
• Pharmaceutical manufacturers and retail pharmacies
• Ambulance providers
• Durable medical equipment suppliers
• Preferred provider organizations and benefits management companies

We also serve as counsel to health care-focused associations, such as the Connecticut Hospital Association, LeadingAge Connecticut and the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home. In addition to health care providers and provider associations, we represent a variety of health care stakeholders and counsel entities involved in various aspects of health care delivery and administration, such as health plans and health networks; third-party administrators; wellness providers; and telehealth and digital health companies.

In helping our clients, we address a full range of laws that affect health care, including licensure, change of ownership, certificates of need, patient care, risk management, fraud and abuse and reimbursement and payor matters. Our attorneys appear regularly before the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of Inspector General (OIG); the Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (DCP); Connecticut Departments of Public Health (DPH) Social Services (DSS), Consumer Protection (DCP); New York State Departments of Health, Financial Services; the New York State Continuing Care Retirement Community Council; the New York State Public Health and Health Planning Council; and the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports.

We are uniquely suited to represent health care clients in matters involving health care fraud and abuse, including conducting internal investigations and protecting clients during government investigations and advising on reimbursement matters, the False Claims Act, the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and other fraud and abuse laws.

Our team also includes seasoned corporate lawyers with health care experience who handle transactional matters for health care providers of all kinds. These range from employment relationships to complex collaboration arrangements to full corporate affiliations via merger, acquisition or member substitution.

Practice concentrations within the Health Care Department include:

• Academic Medical Centers, Health Systems and Hospitals
• Clinical Research
• Health Care Business Transactions
• Health Care Compliance, Fraud and Abuse
• Health Care Litigation
• Health Care Private Equity
• HIPAA
• Home Health Care and Hospice
• Long Term Care and Senior Living
• Regulatory and Reimbursement
• Telehealth