Health Care & Life Sciences

We represent hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, physicians, and other health care providers, as well as pharmaceutical, medical device, and other life sciences companies, in regulatory, transactional, restructuring, and litigation matters. The Carlton Fields team includes attorneys who are board certified in health law by the Florida Bar.

Our attorneys handle acquisitions, affiliations, and joint ventures for health care providers, structure hospital-physician arrangements, and counsel clients on the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA, Medicare and Medicaid, and licensure and accreditation. We also represent distressed providers, their creditors, and buyers in restructurings and bankruptcies.

We defend pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers in product liability cases, class actions, multidistrict litigation, and other mass torts, and defend providers and long-term care facilities in medical malpractice and negligence claims. Our clients also include genetic screening companies and gamete cryobanks.