Health Law and Employment Law Lawyers
Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, the exceptional lawyers at Gilliland & Markette LLP represent health care and business clients in several different fields of practice, including the areas listed below. We focus our attention and energy on handling matters for providers and employers, not providing representation to individual patients or employees that may have claims.
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Health Law
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Labor and Employment Law
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Administrative Law
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Litigation
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HIPAA
Health Law
Confidently representing providers and employers, our firm handles a wide variety of health law matters. Health law encompasses all aspects of the legal system dealing with the organization, financing, and delivery of health services. It covers a range of areas of law related to health care providers, patients, and payors. However, our firm does not represent patients with medical malpractice claims. We will take on clients with issues related to Medicare and Medicaid. Some of the types of issues that we handle include administrative law, antitrust, constitutional law, contracts, corporate, tax, criminal law, intellectual property, employment/labor law, and litigation. Examples of health law issues include traditional legal matters, such as corporate organization and reorganization, joint ventures, and employment issues, as well as matters unique to health care, such as reimbursement, consent to treatment, certificate of need, licensure, professional service contracts, HIPAA, fraud, and abuse, compliance programs, and managed care contracts.
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and employment law refers to all aspects of the employment relationship. Generally, employment law refers to employment issues in the non-union environment, and labor law refers to legal issues involving unions. Generally, our attorneys handle a range of employment law related matters for employers; however, occasionally our attorneys consult with individual employee clients on non-compete and severance agreements and wage and hour issues. Examples of employment law issues that we handle include (but are not limited to) preparation of employee handbooks and personnel policies, pay practices (including minimum wage and overtime pay), issues of unlawful discrimination, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), employee benefits, occupational safety and health, wrongful discharge, and non-compete agreements. Examples of labor law issues include union organizing and elections, collective bargaining, picketing, strikes, arbitration, and mediation. In addition to the foregoing, our firm offers publications in complying with employment related laws and regulations.
Administrative Law
Administrative law is the practice of law before government entities, and includes both litigation and transactional work. Examples of administrative law litigation include contesting a license denial, a government action that has a negative impact on an individual or business, or denial of certain government benefits. Examples of administrative law transactional work include licensure applications, assisting a business with compliance requirements, responding to an investigation, or seeking a waiver or exemption from certain statutory requirements. Because administrative law is the practice of law involving a government entity, this area of practice involves federal, state and local governments and their individual agencies. In the area of health care, for example, administrative law could involve a federal agency, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS"), a state agency, such as a department of health or licensing board, or a local agency, such as a county.
Litigation
Litigation is a generic term that refers to what most people envision when they think about the practice of law: attorneys in a courtroom arguing cases to a judge and/or jury. Litigation also refers to activities that do not take place in the courtroom, but are part of preparing the case. Those behind-the-scenes activities include filing pleadings (complaints, answers to complaints and cross-complaints), asking for information from the other party (known as discovery), arranging administrative tasks (known as case management), negotiating settlement, or trying to win a specific legal point through a motion or brief. In essence, litigation begins when a case is first filed and only ends when that case is settled or is the subject of a court judgment. Litigation continues throughout the entire life of a case—including appeals—and involves all aspects of a case, from the most mundane to the most controversial, in court and out of court.
HIPAA
HIPAA refers to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. That law addresses a number of different things, but, in health care, the term HIPAA is used to refer to Title II of the larger law which deals with Administrative Simplification. Our firm assists health care providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses in complying with Title II's privacy rule and security rule and its other legal requirements. Examples of HIPAA issues include determining whether an entity must comply with HIPAA's requirements, comprehensive policy and form development, business associate identification and contracts, training of staff, and responding to complaints. The firm also offers publications to assist providers in complying with HIPAA's requirements.
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