Health Law Services

Focus

Since 1985, Lew Lefko has focused his health law services on knowing, understanding, interpreting and counseling his clients and employers on the challenges and opportunities presented by federal and Texas health care laws, regulations and guidelines. Each new health care law and set of regulations grows the complexities of health care delivery and impacts health care business investment decisions.

Advice & Counsel

Lew is an effective advisor who has the specialized knowledge to assist his clients develop policies, programs and strategies to ensure compliance with health laws and regulations and business success. Whether the issues or matters involve the health reform law, long-standing doctrines like the prohibition of the corporate practice of medicine, or changing perspectives on topics such as scope of practice for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, the Law Office of Lewis A. Lefko has the experience, insight and dedication to help you meet the challenges facing the health care industry.

• Preparing legal analyses of new and proposed health care laws and regulations and addressing the implications for the client’s business
• Performing legal audits of existing business practices and health care delivery
• Reviewing new and existing contractual and financial relationships between physicians and other health care providers under Stark, Anti-Kickback, patient non-solicitation, corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting laws, regulations and doctrines
• Counseling revenue cycle departments on increased price transparency requirements, discount and charity care laws, denials management and appeals, billing and collections agreements, and consumer financial protection and debt collection rules
• Addressing the risks of out-of-network strategies
• Reviewing HMO, PPO and Medicaid managed care contracts and assisting with dispute resolution
• Ongoing reviews of physicians’ and other health care providers’ advertising, marketing and promotional activities as affected by FDA, FTC, HIPAA, Anti-Kickback/Civil Monetary Penalties/Stark, and state licensing and deceptive trade practices requirements
• Updating physicians and other health care providers on informed consent changes, impact of telehealth on the physician-patient relationship, and formation and implementation of clinically integrated networks.