Health Care Law

WAW has a long history of providing comprehensive counsel and representation to the healthcare industry, including physicians and other health professionals on an individual and group basis, clinics, hospitals, long-term care facilities, and managed care providers. We have extensive experience in representing health professionals ranging from tertiary hospitals to physician groups to solo practitioners. WAW attorneys have been serving the legal needs of health care facilities and individual health care providers for over 25 years. We serve as “general counsel” to local Virginia Hospitals.

WAW has earned a solid reputation among health and insurance companies and their adjustors as a firm that handles insurance defense cases with great knowledge, efficiency, and promptness. Whether the claim involves an automobile collision, property loss, commercial disputes, or claimed health professional malpractice, our seasoned trial attorneys have the experience and expertise to help you resolve your claims in the best way possible.

In addition to health-industry-specific legal counsel, our attorneys are trained to assist you with corporate challenges, including employment, employee benefits, executive compensation, corporate finance and structure, taxation and exempt organization law.

Additional Information

WAW attorneys can provide you with experienced representation and counsel in the following areas:

• Patient care issues such as right to die, withholding treatment, EMTALA, consent, and medical records issues
• Medical staff bylaws, credentialing, peer review, corrective action and hearings
• Corporate organization and governance issues including matters related to conflict of interest and effective governing body oversight
• Risk management and liability issues including self insurance, claims management and incident investigation
• Human resources and employment related claims such as wrongful discharge, EEOC and ADA claims
• Tax-exempt bond and conventional financing
• Corporate compliance programs
• HIPAA policies and program implementation
• Development of operational and patient care policies, procedures, rules, regulations and forms
• Physician recruitment and retention, practice acquisitions and divestiture, physician compensation and employment and practice support
• Physician contracts including medical director and hospital based physician contracts
• Joint ventures, affiliations and other business arrangements
• Accreditation and licensing issues including incident investigations Insurance Coverage

WAW's Health Care Law Attorneys