San Diego Healthcare Law Attorneys

Are you searching for experienced Southern California and San Diego healthcare law attorneys?  The Watkins Firm has more than four decades of experience serving the San Diego and California business and healthcare / medical practice and business communities.

We provide business formation, mergers and acquisitions, healthcare and physician employment contract drafting and review, licensing and distribution agreements, healthcare corporate governance and regulatory compliance, as well as the cost-effective and timely resolution of business and healthcare-related disputes.

3 Key Takeaways Regarding Healthcare Business Law in California

• The healthcare industry in general consistently faces the highest levels of regulation, professional standards and business challenges in California.  It is essential to work with a legal partner with decades of experience in U.S. and California healthcare law in order to protect your professional license, investments, and business interests.
• California is the most challenging state in the nation in which to be an employer.  The healthcare industry faces substantial challenges in the structure of employment relationships, separation of business operations from the delivery of healthcare, as well as the genuine risks of litigation.
• Medical practices and healthcare businesses need an experienced and proven legal partner who can support every aspect of the legal requirements of a healthcare entity or constellation of entities including Management Services Organizations or MSOs, as well as day-to-day operational challenges, guidance as an employer, and effective dispute resolution.

Forming a New Healthcare Business in San Diego

The San Diego health care law attorneys at the Watkins Firm have decades of experience forming a new healthcare business in Southern California.  If you are considering the formation of a healthcare entity, medical business or physician’s practice here in San Diego, you should contact the experienced medical business attorneys at the Watkins Firm.

We have served physicians and the local healthcare industry for almost four decades, and have the extensive experience and legal skill to guide you through start-up, operations, and ultimately the sale of part or all of your practice or medical business.

The primary entities to consider for a healthcare business are a C Corporation, California Professional Corporation, a Management Services Organization or MSO, or a combination of the above. The selection of your entity or entities is based upon the business or healthcare practice(s) you intend to conduct, the nature of the corporate side of the business versus the practice of medicine and the specific parties involved.

We have helped establish hundreds of professional corporations over the years, and provide guidance on ownership, adding members or shareholders, selling interests and disputes between the professionals who own and operate the business.  California has complex laws that must be taken into account when starting a healthcare entity.

These laws specify who is qualified for ownership of medical entities, as well as the provision of extended benefits and even retirement planning.  Our attorneys work to establish a solid foundation at formation, and provide sound counsel and advice in every area of healthcare operations.

The Watkins Firm offers more than 40 years of experience providing legal services to medical practices and healthcare entities throughout California, as well as regional and national chains and groups.  We work to establish the entity or group of entities which will best accomplish your goals and objectives.  We customize the shareholders’ agreement and bylaws to suit your unique situation and provide sound advice and counsel through business formation and initial corporate operations.

If you are searching for experienced and proven California and San Diego healthcare law attorneys we invite you to review the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.

Healthcare Mergers and Acquisitions

After decades of service to California medical practice and healthcare business communities, the San Diego healthcare law attorneys at the Watkins Firm provide extensive experience and sound counsel during healthcare mergers and acquisitions transactions.  Mergers and acquisitions are quite common in the healthcare industry and new shareholders and investors are coming into and going out of healthcare entities than ever.

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions transactions are fraught with both risk and profitable opportunity.  The most important aspect of these transactions is comprehensive, thorough due diligence.  Whether you are acquiring equipment or other assets through an asset purchase or transacting a practice or entity through a stock purchase transaction the Watkins Firm will provide sound advice, counsel, due diligence and contracting support.  We work to verify all Warranties and Representations and apply our extensive proprietary library of due diligence checklists and processes based upon literally hundreds and hundreds of healthcare-related mergers and acquisitions across our more than four decades of service.

Listen to our Sound Business Insights Podcasts “Episode 7: Medical Practices and Healthcare Businesses, Episode 30 – Management Services Organizations or MSOs, and Episode 37 – Medical Practice and Healthcare Governance and Compliance”

Healthcare, Physician, Supplier and Customer Contracts

Your healthcare entity will require contracts for every aspect of the business.  Healthcare businesses require unique employment contracts and customized policies and procedures.  There are a myriad of government regulations as well as federal, state and local laws with which your operation must comply.

This includes California’s employment laws, as well as OSHA, Stark Law, HIPAA and all insurance related coding and billing procedures.  We advise our clients on a variety of compliance and dispute related issues such as physician, nurse and healthcare worker disciplinary hearings, managed care disputes, peer review, credentialing issues, and other business related practices and challenges.

Business contracts with vendors, suppliers, distribution and licensing channels and even customers may be required for your healthcare business.  The San Diego healthcare law attorneys at the Watkins Firm have an extensive proprietary library of healthcare related contracts and corporate documents based upon decades of experience and proven success.

Our cost-effective approach allows us to take proven, successful documents and tailor them to your unique application(s) while reflecting not only the unique aspects of business operations in California but recent changes in federal and state laws and regulations.

Healthcare Corporate Governance and Regulatory Compliance

Healthcare corporate governance and regulatory compliance is one of the most important duties of a corporate officer in the healthcare field.  California is absolutely the most challenging state in the union as a healthcare entity and/or employer.

Healthcare is one of the most regulated industries in the US and here in California and there must be an ongoing and consistent strategy to ensure compliance with all medical, professional, ethical, legal and regulatory issues associated with your practice or medical business.

The Watkins Firm works with our healthcare clients to develop, implement, monitor and update a thorough governance and compliance strategy.  Protecting the corporate veil of your company as well as the integrity of the professional licenses of owners, investors and shareholders are one of the most important business aspects of a healthcare entity and its management team.

If you are searching for experienced and proven Southern California and San Diego healthcare law attorneys we invite you to review the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.

Efficient and Timely Resolution of Healthcare Related Disputes and Lawsuits

If you are part of a medical practice or healthcare business disputes and lawsuits aren’t a matter of “if” they are a matter of “when.”  The Watkins Firm has some of the most experienced and proven healthcare dispute attorneys in Southern California.  Our track record of success in the efficient and timely resolution of healthcare related disputes and lawsuits is based upon our unique approach to disputes and litigation.

You will be pleased to learn that the Watkins Firm successfully resolves the vast majority of our healthcare disputes and lawsuits through effective, leveraged negotiation.  This is the fastest and most cost-efficient strategy for resolving healthcare disputes and lawsuits.

Our extensive trial experience and proven track record of success across four decades of healthcare and medical practice disputes and lawsuits provides strength and power to your side of the challenge.  The next logical steps in the process will be mediation and usually arbitration.  Mediation is a confidential, private and efficient legal venue in which our attorneys work to resolve part or all of the remaining issues in a legal venue which keeps your business out of the public record.

If negotiation and mediation do not completely resolve or settle the issue(s) at hand, most healthcare contracts specify arbitration as an alternative to trial.  Your San Diego healthcare law attorneys at the Watkins Firm are prepared to successfully present your case in arbitration or trial in order to achieve the goals and objectives of our clients.

Effective, Proven, Skilled San Diego Healthcare Law Attorneys

If you are searching for experienced and proven Southern California and San Diego healthcare law attorneys we invite you to review the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.

The Watkins Firm has more than 4 decades of experience serving the San Diego and Southern California medical practice and healthcare business communities.  We provide extensive legal advice, counsel and legal service for your healthcare related business formation, healthcare and physician employment contract drafting and review, licensing and distribution agreements, mergers and acquisitions, healthcare corporate governance and regulatory compliance, as well as the cost-effective and timely resolution of business and healthcare-related disputes.