Health Care

A changing sector. A constant partner.

The health care industry is always moving. Shifting. Fluctuating. In this environment, you need a partner who won’t just help you keep up, but can guarantee you’ll stay ahead. At Brownstein, we represent health care businesses across a full spectrum of issues—working relentlessly to make sure our clients are perpetually on the leading edge.

Amid the evolving regulatory and political landscape in the health care industry, our agile team brings the right people to the table to solve your most pressing problems. Whether it’s a hospital seeking to influence policy debates, a medical device manufacturer with intellectual property and privacy questions or a health care provider engaged in a dispute with a referring physician, our group is ready and waiting with multidisciplinary solutions. And with the capacity to structure cross-state operations that comply with both local and national legal requirements, we have the scale and geographic reach to support you, no matter what stage of growth or region you’re in.

Health care experience

Public Policy

Playing an active role in policy formation and in the political decision-making process is an imperative and requires a dynamic approach. Our team proactively engages to protect your interests and achieve your political objectives in Washington by deploying substantive health care expertise to influence debates, recruit validators and ensure successful outcomes.

Represent clients before Congress and federal agencies
Provide technical policy advice
Draft legislation
Form coalitions

Keeping Hospitals Funded During a Pandemic

During the drafting of the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Brownstein worked to secure $100 billion for hospitals, doctors and other health care providers nationwide through the Provider Relief Fund. When Republicans’ initial version of the bill did not include a specific fund for these providers, we worked across party lines to build bipartisan support. Providers relied on these funds to keep their doors open as they had to cancel revenue-driving “elective” procedures to prioritize treatment for COVID patients. We secured an additional $75 billion to replenish the fund and also advocated for the creation of the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Program, which gave health care providers early Medicare resulting in tens of millions of advanced payments to our clients.

Sophisticated Dealmaking Helps a Community Hospital Thrive

Keeping a much-needed community hospital open in a southern Arizona community required quick action to make a sophisticated deal happen. Brownstein’s integrated team of corporate, litigation and government relations counsel successfully guided the distressed Casa Grande Regional Medical Center through filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the resulting acquisition of its assets and certain liabilities by Banner Health. In only 10 months, the team surmounted multiple hurdles—two attempted transactions to acquire Casa Grande by other hospital systems, a hotly contested auction process, significant antitrust challenges and complicated health care regulatory issues—to successfully complete the sale.