Legal Services
General Counsel West, PC provides strategic legal advice for healthcare companies, through five capability areas.
Outside General Counsel
- For emerging and fast-growing healthcare companies
- Broad-based counsel tailored to help you grow
- We become a team member and a partner
- We invest in understanding your business and industry
- We help guide you at all stages of your company’s life cycle from formation through growth, maturity and even exit
- When your company requires full-time legal support, we can help you plan the structure and obtain the resources that are optimal for your situation
Health Plan Contracting
- We have unique and unparalleled expertise in negotiating fee-for-service, shared savings, and capitated payor contracts on behalf of individual providers, independent physician associations, medical groups, physician hospital organizations, and management services organizations
- As both legal advisors and business partners, we help assess and maximize your leverage in negotiating contract language to protect your current and future business interests.
- To date, we have advised providers on health plan contracts worth in excess of $5 billion
Health Care Compliance
- More critical than ever to develop and maintain an effective regulatory compliance program
- We have guided our clients at every stage of Compliance Program implementation, from creating new programs to ensuring that existing programs meet all requirements
- We also assist with compliance training and ongoing compliance counseling
- Our compliance experts have vast experience handling compliance matters involving revenue cycle compliance issues (e.g., billing and coding, government audits) as well as privacy compliance issues
Mergers & Acquisitions
- If you are in acquisition mode, we can help you through the process
- We have expertise in helping clients navigate and resolve regulatory issues in healthcare transactions
- One of our core competencies is leading companies through legal due diligence and the coordination of the legal aspects of transactions from start to finish
- For small to medium-sized acquisitions, we offer an alternative when a larger law firm may lead to overkill
- For very large transactions, we partner with you and outside counsel to get the best overall results
Support for the General Counsel
- Extra capacity for general counsels who have too much to do in too little time (which describes every general counsel we have ever met who works in the healthcare space)
- Having been in-house, we think like GCs and can provide support on a wide-range of legal projects, including leading or participating on cross-functional teams and/or managing outside counsel
- We help get work done while simultaneously putting processes in place to make future projects more efficient