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Whiteford, Taylor & Preston's Long-Term Care Practice provides legal advice to owners and operators of senior living, continuing care, assisted living and comprehensive nursing care facilities.
We understand the evolving issues of the long-term care market. Our legal experience encompasses all of the business matters, transactions and disputes that are an integral part of any business, and also (and especially) the areas of health and regulatory law that are unique to the healthcare provider and long-term care industries. Our Long-Term Care Practice is a special focus of our firm's Health Care Law Group.
We provide a wide range of services for long-term care providers as well as for hospitals and other acute care providers, as they seek to integrate and coordinate services in this evolving and highly competitive environment. As this environment becomes more complex, so do the associated legal issues -- issues we deal with on an on-going basis.
The previous fragmentation of the financing of long-term care services by HCFA is changing, and with those changes has come a variety of new rules and new challenges that are dramatically redefining the manner and setting in which care is delivered to seniors. The Balanced Budget Act and other changes have forced long-term care providers to understand and meet the challenges of the Prospective Payment System (PPS), managed care contracting requirements and opportunities, the need to create and document a comprehensive Compliance Program, the possible combination of Medicare and Medicaid payments under an Integrated Care System (ICS), the need to attract strategic partners and capital, and the need to develop innovative financing and organizational structures for long-term care facilities. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), new challenges are emerging to provide protections for the safeguarding of health information in a dynamic information-sharing environment.
For more information, please contact:
Herman B. Rosenthal at 410.347.9488 or email hrosenthal@wtplaw.com
Rose M. Matricciani at 410.347.9476 or email rmatricciani@wtplaw.com
