Healthcare Law
With award-winning litigators, Barnwell Whaley has extensive experience representing and advising doctors, nurses, hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities, insurers, managed care organizations, physician practices and providers, and health foundations regarding the broad range of legal issues implicated by the provision of healthcare to the public.
In addition to successfully trying many cases, our attorneys have experience counseling healthcare clients in the areas of:
• Certificate of need disputes
• Professional and facility licensing
• Other regulatory compliance matters
• HIPAA
• Medical device patents
• Fraud & abuse
• Professional Malpractice
• Joint ventures
• Anti-trust
• Anti-Kickback Statute
Barnwell Whaley attorneys have also conducted numerous educational programs for attorneys and healthcare providers and published articles in national journals addressing various legal issues facing the healthcare industry. Most recently, M. Dawes Cooke, Jr. wrote the chapter on Defending Medical Malpractice Cases for the South Carolina Practice manual published by the South Carolina Bar.
The firm’s health law practitioners participate in the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association’s Forum on Health Law, and the American Society of Medical Association Counsel, as well as state and local bar association health practice committees.
Related areas of law:
Employment Law
Intellectual Property Law
Nursing Home Defense
Patent Law
Professional Malpractice