Healthcare
Many of the leading health care providers and institutions in Oklahoma rely on McAfee & Taft for legal representation. We have served healthcare industry clients for over 50 years, and we maintain the largest and most prestigious health law practice group in Oklahoma.
McAfee & Taft is the law firm of choice in Oklahoma for major hospital and health systems, as well as local healthcare providers, professionals, and institutions. We have been recognized for excellence in representation of healthcare clients in transactional, corporate, regulatory, tax, and litigation matters. Our healthcare lawyers are timely, responsive, accessible, efficient, and committed.
Our healthcare lawyers provide guidance to healthcare industry businesses and professionals in all aspects of their operations and transactions. Many of our healthcare lawyers are listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Oklahoma Super Lawyers and Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for their expertise in healthcare, corporate and commercial transactions, business and strategic planning, tax, litigation, and other areas. Our lawyers have broad-based experience that enables them to create innovative and workable solutions to our clients’ situations.
McAfee & Taft represents hospitals, health systems, physicians, physician groups, and other healthcare providers and institutions throughout Oklahoma and surrounding areas and has taken a leadership role in providing creative strategies and innovative approaches for healthcare clients. A number of lawyers in the firm provide representation to healthcare industry clients in a variety of contexts. Our hospital clients include charitable, religious-sponsored, governmental hospitals, and critical access hospitals, as well as physician-owned hospitals, academic medical centers, and investor-owned hospitals. Our physician clients include single-specialty and multi-specialty physician groups, nonprofit physician organizations, academic physicians, research scientists, and physician networks. Other healthcare industry clients include long-term care facilities, retirement communities, health-related trade associations, medical research organizations, health-related foundations, life sciences organizations, biotech and medical technology businesses, biotech organizations, physician-sponsored health plans, third-party administrators, home health agencies, imaging centers, physical therapy centers, clinical laboratories, pharmacies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, durable medical equipment suppliers, and other healthcare providers and suppliers.
Healthcare industry clients count on our lawyers to assist them in finding practical solutions to the challenges they face. We are regularly recognized by clients for our capabilities and assistance in achieving their business goals, making sure that transactions are successfully negotiated and completed, assessing and minimizing risks, protecting their interests, offering solutions, resolving controversies, and succeeding in litigation.
McAfee & Taft has extensive experience and expertise in the industry’s unique regulatory environment, as well as the corporate, tax, antitrust, securities, employment, dispute resolution, and general business ramifications of our clients’ operations. Our lawyers have considerable experience in assisting hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare clients with facilities development, joint venture arrangements, investment and ownership arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate affiliations, hospital-physician integration strategies, and medical practice consolidations. Facilities development projects have included development and expansion of hospitals and clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, cancer treatment facilities, sleep labs, physical therapy centers, pharmacies, research facilities, biotech facilities, and other developments.
Our multi-disciplinary group of lawyers are highly experienced in assisting clients in matters involving licensure and regulatory matters, certification and accreditation, physician employment, physician and executive compensation, financial arrangements with physicians, Stark law physician self-referral and Medicare anti-kickback issues, and referral relationships. We regularly advise clients in matters relating to governing board responsibilities and policies. Our lawyers provide guidance, direction and legal representation in bond financing, tax-exempt status matters, employee benefits issues, physician and executive compensation, labor and employment issues, regulatory compliance, reimbursement, payer and health plan contracting, network development, medical records, HIPAA, EMTALA, and antitrust. Our integrated group of transactional and trial lawyers also bring the comprehensive breath and depth of practice of McAfee & Taft to clients in healthcare investigations, including investigations and legal proceedings involving the OIG, FBI, DEA, and other government enforcement agencies.
We work with numerous hospitals in matters involving physician and medical staff relationships, including development of medical staff bylaws, fair hearing plans, credentialing plans, and medical staff policies, as well as representation in medical staff hearings. The firm has worked with clients on numerous transactions involving healthcare organizations, as well as linkages between healthcare organizations and other organizations, such as universities, research organizations, and health-related foundations.
Because of our knowledge of industry participants and trends, clients often turn to us for strategic planning. We bring a refreshing perspective to our clients and help them to adapt to meet continually changing legal, financial, operational, and regulatory challenges. McAfee & Taft is well positioned to leverage industry experience for the benefit of clients. We have taken the lead on behalf of clients in creating innovative arrangements that meet the goals of all the parties involved when more traditional approaches may not be available.



































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HHS now accepting applications for $20 billion in Phase 3 relief funding
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Alert | October 6, 2020Compensation policies for physicians employed by hospitals and health systems
McAfee & Taft LINC | September 14, 2020New CMS regulations bolster enforcement of COVID-19 reporting by hospitals, long-term care facilities and labs
McAfee & Taft LINC | August 31, 2020Healthcare providers can request payment for COVID-19 testing and treatment of uninsured
McAfee & Taft LINC | May 7, 2020Paycheck Protection Program eligibility issues for healthcare providers
McAfee & Taft LINC | April 29, 2020New law allocates additional $100 billion for COVID-19 health care and testing
McAfee & Taft LINC | April 24, 2020COVID-19 Checklist for Healthcare Providers
April 22, 2020During pandemic, limited civil immunity given to Oklahoma healthcare providers, facilities
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Alert | April 21, 2020Healthcare professional licensure requirements modified to respond to COVID-19 pandemic
McAfee & Taft LINC | April 16, 2020Initial distributions of emergency funding for Medicare healthcare providers begin on schedule
McAfee & Taft LINC | April 10, 2020CMS expected to distribute $30 billion to eligible healthcare providers under the CARES Act
McAfee & Taft LINC | April 9, 2020CMS announces expedited payments for Medicare providers and suppliers
McAfee & Taft LINC | March 30, 2020Telehealth expansion during the COVID-19 public health emergency
McAfee & Taft LINC | March 30, 2020New year brings new electronic prescribing law
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | December 18, 2019Opioid prescribing requirements to change in Oklahoma on November 1
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | October 24, 2018Selecting EHR Vendors: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Update | January 29, 2018Obtaining informed consent now requires full disclosure of certain surgical assistants
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Update | July 26, 2017The non-existent corporate practice of medicine prohibition in Oklahoma
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Update | June 8, 2017New OkPOLST form designed to improve end-of-life and crisis care
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Alert | August 23, 2016Healthcare Records Held Hostage: When ransomware attacks
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Update | August 16, 2016Supreme Court ruling potentially expands false claims liability for healthcare providers
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Alert | June 16, 2016Oklahoma Supreme Court broadens scope of state’s informed consent law
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Update | May 25, 2016OIG rules hospital’s offer of free transportation, lodging doesn’t violate anti-kickback statute
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Alert | March 10, 2016Stark: A stagnant law for an evolving industry
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Commentary | February 16, 2016Payment is due at the time services are rendered
McAfee & Taft Business & Legal Update | July 29, 2015Oklahoma lawmakers ease practice requirements for physician assistants
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Update | June 11, 2015OIG issues additional guidance to healthcare boards regarding compliance efforts and oversight
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Update | May 26, 2015Tenth Circuit affirms federal preemption of state law tort claims for medical devices
McAfee & Taft Litigation Update | May 11, 2015New state law allows access to investigational drugs
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Legal Alert | May 4, 2015What Oklahoma’s amended Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act means for prescribing medical providers
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Legal Alert | April 7, 2015New state law mandates education about end‑of‑life treatment
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Legal Update | January 19, 2015Who does your malpractice attorney represent?
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Legal Update | December 30, 2014Oklahoma Legislature significantly expands peer review privilege
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Legal Update | December 1, 2014Brace for Medicaid data mining and recoupment demands
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | June 9, 2014Government targets ‘risky business’ with free HIPAA assessment tool
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | April 9, 2014CMS authorizes contractors to deny ‘related’ claims of physicians who are not undergoing review
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | March 7, 2014New Oklahoma security law requires fingerprint‑based background checks on certain healthcare employees
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | January 31, 2014Norman Physician Hospital Organization — Factors Supporting Clinical Integration
Bloomberg BNA Health Law Reporter | September 19, 2013OIG rejects management arrangement that carves out federal healthcare program patients
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | August 12, 2013Court rules employers who provide services to federal government employees subject to federal contracting regulations
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | June 5, 2013New HIPAA regulations: Begin your compliance review now
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | January 31, 2013Department of Labor, plaintiffs’ attorneys targeting healthcare industry for FLSA enforcement
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | September 17, 2010OIG advisory opinion describes suspect ‘under arrangements’ transactions
McAfee & Taft Healthcare Industry Alert | September 15, 2010At The Podium
Healthcare Year in Review
Avoiding Contract “Gotchas”
Enforceability of Non-Competes and Non-Solicitation Agreements
Challenges in Telehealth
Healthcare Fraud Enforcement: Tips and Trends
Physician Extender: Practice optimizer, risk enhancers, or both?
Physician Extender: Practice optimizer, risk enhancers, or both?
Responding to Civil and Criminal Investigations
The Heat is (Still) On: Fraud abuse compliance and enforcement
OIG’s Prescription for Effective Governance
Cybersecurity: Ransomware attacks in the Healthcare Sector
The Heat is (Still) On: Fraud and abuse compliance and enforcement
OIG’s Prescription for Effective Governance
Keep Calm and Train On: HIPAA training made easy
Cybersecurity in the Healthcare Sector
Oklahoma UPL Nursing Home Program: Play your cards right
Make Sure You Get to Keep the Money You Earned: How to Avoid Recoupment and Investigation
UPL — From One Lawyer’s Perspective
Compliance 2016: Get your #$@% together
Practitioners Behaving Badly
Dr. DPC or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying (and Billing) and Love Primary Care
Use of social media and health care privacy
Drugs, critters and disease in the workplace
Employee Drug and Alcohol Testing
Responding to on-site criminal activity
Affordable Care Act: What do we do in 2015?
The Affordable Care Act: Where are we going?
When leave laws collide: Tackling complex health plan coverage issues
Stark Reality — Navigating the requirements for fair market value in physician compensation arrangements
Advanced Stark and AKS Compliance: Case Studies and Hypotheticals
Physician Collaboration — Recent Antitrust Opinion on NPHO
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Modern Healthcare | July 10, 2020Chambers USA 2020 honors McAfee & Taft as top-ranked firm, 32 attorneys singled out for individual honors
April 23, 2020Oklahoma imposes legislative constraints on MOC
HCPro’s Credentialing Resource Center Journal | July 1, 2016Media
