Practice Capabilities

Loeb & Loeb offers a diverse range of legal counseling, transactional and litigation services to clients involved in the healthcare industry, including hospitals, medical groups, insurers, third party administrators, pharmacy benefit managers, managed care providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and medical device companies. We have been involved with many aspects of the healthcare delivery system, from development and structuring of health care services and service providers to complex dispute resolution.

Our healthcare attorneys have experience in the following areas:

• Mergers and acquisitions 
• Antitrust counseling 
• Restructurings and insolvencies 
• Commercial litigation 
• Finance 
• Intellectual property protection and enforcement, including patent, litigation, prosecution and licensing 
• Technology and outsourcing transactions
• Tax-exempt issues

In transactional matters, our healthcare industry experience includes strategic planning, structuring, and implementation of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing, restructurings and workout transactions for a variety of healthcare entities. We also have experience representing healthcare companies in large-scale, complex business process outsourcing and technology licensing, system development and integration agreements.

Our team has handled a variety of commercial litigation matters related to the delivery and payment of healthcare services, including claims disputes, provider disputes, breach of contract matters, defense of allegations involving RICO violations, as well as insurance and health care fraud litigation. We are also regularly involved in healthcare bankruptcy proceedings and have represented a number of healthcare companies in connection with financial restructurings and insolvencies.

In intellectual property litigation, Loeb & Loeb’s seasoned patent litigators regularly represent major pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device clients in complex patent infringement disputes involving all types of medical and drug technologies.

Our representative healthcare clients include:

Aetna Healthcare, Inc.	Los Angeles Orthopedic Hospital
American Health Holdings, Inc.	Meritain Health, Inc.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Pacific Hospital of Long Beach
Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield	Prodigy Health Group
GE Healthcare	SCAN Health Plan
Global Health Science	Scrip World, LLC
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.	Summit Surgical Center
Healthsmart	UnitedHealth Group, Inc.
Kidney Center, Inc.	Welborn Health Plans
Little Company of Mary Hospital