Practice: Health Care

The JAMS Health Care Practice Group includes retired federal, state trial and appellate judges and former litigators who have established credibility in health care law and in the health care industry. These respected neutrals are adept at achieving effective resolution for all parties and managing the ongoing business concerns inherent in many health care cases.

Practice-Focused Training

Our neutrals augment their deep subject matter expertise and comprehensive knowledge of federal and state case law and statutes with extensive, ongoing training in ADR and developing jurisprudence.

Unparalleled Expertise

The neutrals in our Health Care Practice Group have handled countless health care matters, including:

• Complex payor/provider disputes involving reimbursement for past claims, future contract terms and determination of the UCR or “usual, customary and reasonable” rate
• Medical staff hearings related to disputes between hospital medical staff and hospital governing bodies involving contractual terms and/or discipline matters
• Disputes over mergers, sales, dissolutions and other business issues within physician practice groups, and among hospitals and other health care businesses and joint ventures
• Qui tam fraud and abuse cases under federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) statutes, in situations both involving government intervention and without it
• eDiscovery issues in cases with complex electronic medical record (EMR) discovery
• Disputes over level of care to be provided for behavioral disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and autism
• Complex employment disputes involving high-level health care providers and their employers or business partners
• Patent, licensing, trade secret and other intellectual property issues surrounding medical technology
• Medicare and Medicaid disputes
• Coverage disputes arising from the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
• Medical device product liability disputes