In helping providers succeed, we aspire to have a Big Impact on healthcare. As our mission, we want to empower providers to deliver great healthcare. The following success stories are a few examples of what we mean:
BIG IMPACT FOR MEDICAL PRACTICE OWNERS
Little Health Law is known for finding innovative, compliant solutions for medical practices seeking to expand or improve their ability to deliver exceptional healthcare. When medical practice owners utterly burned out and very unhappy with a conventional third-party payor model for a primary care practice approached us about a concierge model option, we listened to them and helped them find the right solution for their medical practice. Patients had been unhappy and leaving. But these owners, as committed, caring physicians who desired a practice model that would allow them to spend quality time getting to know their patients and their families, decided to focus on preventive health rather acute care, and providing better and more access to care based upon an agreed menu of healthcare services and amenities. Our comprehensive review of their business circumstances and desired model combined with meticulous analysis of applicable regulations enabled our legal team to guide these physician owners to a proper, compliant and highly effective concierge medical practice based on their patients’ advance payment, a direct contract, a specific menu of medical services included, greater and mutually rewarding access to care, and no third-party payors. Hundreds of happy patients now enjoy the exceptional higher level of care their families now receive at this concierge medical practice.
BIG IMPACT FOR MEDSPAS AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES BUSINESSES
A non-physician developed a superb business and marketing idea for a med spa with a twist that would certainly differentiate her med spa and enable her to change lives with incredible aesthetic services and awesome customer service. But she faced what felt like insurmountable regulatory and compliance issues regarding corporate practice of medicine rules and similar other limitations. Our legal team of experienced lawyers that exclusively help healthcare providers and businesses researched and designed proper ownership structure and governance on a flat fee basis to meet her need. Now her med spa customers feel and look amazing. Her business has flourished.
BIG IMPACT FOR LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
She enjoyed an amazing career and stellar reputation in her community, and she relished what she felt was her professional calling: caring for elderly patients in assisted living facilities. But an unexpected turn of events changed her world. Based on a mistaken interpretation of records, two DEA diversion agents showed up unannounced to her office and pressured her into signing a Form 104 voluntary surrender of her DEA registration, leading to NPDB reporting and a domino-like cascade of adverse, unintended professional consequences, putting her at high risk of losing her ability to write prescriptions and potentially tarnishing her professional reputation. With the assistance of effective advocacy, thoughtful navigation of various procedural and legal hurdles, and careful negotiating, our legal team helped restore her ability to write prescriptions and care for her elderly patients. She is very satisfied with the upward trajectory of her career in healthcare.
OTHER REPRESENTATIVE ENAGEMENTS
Our Georgia business and healthcare law practice is focused on helping providers avoid or resolve serious legal problems. We help clients avoid disputes, compliance infractions, fraud investigations, litigation, or similar legal problems by conducting business in a legally smart, compliant way. But if legal issues culminate in a lawsuit or notice from a federal agency of a medical audit, for example, we effectively advocate our client’s legal position to resolve the dispute as favorably and efficiently as possible. Our law firm is not a mill operation and therefore the details of matters we handle often vary. We concentrate our efforts on helping healthcare providers, closely held businesses and professionals, and our firm’s engagements typically emanate from business law, healthcare law and/or employment law issues. Although significant financial recoveries in litigation are noteworthy, we understand that the outcome of every provider’s legal matter is very important to that provider. This is true whether the matter involves recovering damages in a lawsuit, or something else altogether. Avoiding litigation, an audit, or a medical board problem is real success. Whether a healthcare provider’s objective is compliant corporate structure, closing a crucial transaction, properly setting up a med spa, a recovery in a lawsuit, negotiating better contract terms, obtaining a court order to enjoin unlawful competition, protecting ownership rights, or dismissal of an improper lawsuit, our approach is the same: in every engagement, we take care to truly understand our client’s problem (or potential problem) and endeavor to efficiently solve it.
DISCLAIMER
An outcome in one matter is not indicative of the likely outcome in another case, nor can we guarantee a particular outcome in any matter.