Marked by an integrated approach and unmatched healthcare regulatory knowledge, the Healthcare Industry Group at Bass, Berry & Sims is a team of more than 260 experienced healthcare attorneys who leverage their diverse strengths to meet the unique demands of our clients. Over the years, Bass, Berry & Sims has contributed to the evolution of Nashville as the nation’s capital of healthcare delivery and entrepreneurialism. From this experience, we know that issues impacting healthcare organizations require a multidisciplinary team informed by historical perspective. Because of this depth, the firm was ranked as the fourth largest healthcare law firm in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare (2023) and fourth largest by American Health Law Association (2023).
We provide healthcare regulatory counsel to 35 publicly traded healthcare companies and more than 200 businesses in the healthcare industry located throughout the United States. We have extensive experience in representing investors, lenders and investment banking firms in financing transactions for healthcare companies. Our team has advised on more than $136 billion in healthcare transactions and more than $52 billion in debt and equity offerings.
Our healthcare attorneys navigate complex state and federal regulations across all healthcare sectors including four major areas:
- Mergers, acquisitions and dispositions
- Joint ventures and syndications
- Contracting, regulatory and operational matters
- Compliance and investigations
We work directly with healthcare clients dealing with critical healthcare compliance, regulatory and operational needs including:
- Affordable Care Act compliance
- Anti-Kickback Statute
- Stark Law
- Reimbursement
- Licensing and certification
- Corporate compliance programs
- Payor audits including RACs, ZPICs, and MICs
- HIPAA privacy and security compliance
- Internal and government investigations before the OIG and DOJ
- Managed care contracting
- Certificate of need and health planning
At Bass, Berry & Sims, our healthcare attorneys encompass the multitude of legal specialties necessary to service one of the largest, most highly regulated industries in the United States. We bring our multidisciplinary, team approach to our representation of the following sectors and facilities:
- Academic medical centers
- Ambulatory surgery centers
- Behavioral health
- Cancer therapy
- Clinical laboratories
- Dermatology
- Diagnostic imaging
- Health plans, managed care companies and benefit management companies
- Healthcare information technology
- Home health
- Hospice
- Hospitals and health systems
- Life sciences
- Managed care
- Medical device
- Nonprofit providers
- Orthotics and prosthetics
- Pharmaceuticals and pharmacies
- Physician practices, outsourced physician services and management companies
- Private equity
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
- Revenue cycle management
- Senior housing and long-term care
- Specialty pharmacy and pharmaceuticals
- Telemedicine
- Urgent and retail care clinics
- Wellness and disease management
The firm’s legal proficiency draws on the backgrounds of numerous healthcare attorneys who have honed their skills with in-house counsel positions, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Attorneys’ offices.
For the last seven years, Chambers USA ranked the firm in the Nationwide category and in 2017 Bass, Berry & Sims was named a finalist in the Chambers USA 2017 Awards for Excellence, recognizing a firm’s pre-eminence in key practice areas. Chambers USA has ranked Bass, Berry & Sims as one of the top healthcare law firms in Tennessee for the past 15 years. In their research for the 2020 issue, Chambers concluded the firm had a “Deep bench with varied expertise across both regulatory and transactional healthcare matters. Well equipped to handle significant multistate M&A deals, recapitalizations and dispositions. Regularly mandated on joint ventures and syndications, in addition to compliance matters and government investigations. Clients include healthcare companies, pharmacy groups, private equity investors and long-term care centers.” In the 2021 edition of Chambers, sources report “The client service is very good and very solicitous. They are not heavy-handed, but provide fast and thorough responses,” and “They have built a really good group. They do top-quality work at very competitive rates.” (from Chambers USA 2021) In previous Chambers editions, clients and sources say “They are consistent and very effective. They also work well with our team and are customer service-oriented” and that the team is “great to work with – they know what they’re doing.” (from Chambers USA 2020); “They are our go-to firm for pretty much anything,” adding “Their responsiveness and customer service is absolutely excellent, the best I have worked with. I have them on speed dial.” (from Chambers USA 2018)
