Overview
Our health care practice attorneys counsel our clients on corporate compliance and governance standards and related issues. We provide advice and assistance in structuring effective corporate compliance and ethics programs as well as ongoing monitoring and oversight to proactively assist health care clients in the prevention and detection of improper conduct. We also provide audit guidance, assistance in the development of policies and procedures and conduct internal investigations and other measures to assist in the reduction of exposure to risk and enforcement challenges. Our practice group is also well equipped to provide guidance and counsel on director and officer responsibilities and good governance practices. Furthermore, our group regularly assists audit and compliance committees and independent directors, in compliance reviews and has experience in conducting internal and external investigations in the post-Sarbanes Oxley enforcement climate.
Specifically, we have provided counsel on the following types of matters:
- Assisting sponsors of ERISA self-insured health plans
- Corporate structure and governance practices
- U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
- Effective corporate compliance and ethics programs
- Voluntary disclosures
- Internal investigations and remedial actions
- Responding to enforcement inquiries and investigations
- Compliance audits and checks
- Development of policies and procedures