Healthcare
USA Guide 2024 : Illinois
Band 2
About
Provided by Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
As a health care provider, you need trusted counsel to help you address challenges and realize opportunities in ways that improve individual patient outcomes and population health, maximize resources and minimize disruption to patient care. Whether you are managing the transition to value-based care or seeking to optimize operations in an atmosphere of provider-payer convergence, we help you adapt and thrive in a marketplace that always asks you to do more with less. We help providers across the country advance their objectives, overcome challenges and capitalize on new opportunities. Our forward-thinking attorneys, consultants and professionals deliver business-minded regulatory, transactional, policy and litigation counsel, and use their broad experience working with clients across the health care continuum to help you keep pace with the quickly changing marketplace.
Chambers Review
Faegre Drinker has an impressive healthcare team that draws on nationwide experience in acting for a broad roster of nonprofit providers. The firm's strong regulatory compliance practice is enhanced by significant activity in transactions, including strategic joint ventures and affiliations. Team members also advise on related areas such as telemedicine initiatives and antitrust concerns, as well as healthcare employment and IT issues. The firm is noted as being active in areas such as behavioral health and addiction treatment, as well as broadening its healthcare technology capabilities.
Work Highlights
- Faegre Drinker served as counsel to Life Care Services, the second largest assisted living provider in the country, on its acquisition of The Arlington of Naples, a 298-unit life plan community in Florida.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The Faegre team is highly responsive and makes time to address questions in a timely manner, providing the level of analysis appropriate for the urgency of the question without spending unnecessary time on simple questions."
"My team engages with subject matter experts in various specialties and we have found them all to be effective advisers."
"The Faegre team is highly responsive and makes time to address questions in a timely manner, providing the level of analysis appropriate for the urgency of the question without spending unnecessary time on simple questions."
"My team engages with subject matter experts in various specialties and we have found them all to be effective advisers."
Notable Practitioners
Jennifer Breuer advises on all aspects of complex regulatory issues for health clients, including FDA compliance, Medicaid and privacy issues. She acts for a wide array of clients, including healthcare systems and telehealth providers.
"Jennifer is a trusted partner and adviser and we appreciate her guidance on strategic questions impacting our business."
"She is a really accomplished lawyer who is good to work with."
Neil Olderman is noted for his expertise in transactions such as sales, joint ventures and outsourcing deals for providers. His practice also includes advising on regulatory matters related to alleged fraud and abuse.
"He has great healthcare experience and is very innovative in terms of approach to meet the needs of the client. His deep experience and innovative mind make him stand out."
"Neil is one of the first lawyers I would call for healthcare M&A. He is an extremely commercially-minded lawyer in the healthcare world."
"Neil has strong communication skills and a deep understanding of our needs. He critically thinks through our unique challenges and is very attentive to detail."