As a national law firm focused exclusively on matters specific to the health care industry, Hall Render’s knowledge and experience set us apart.
With over 50 years of experience, Hall Render is dedicated to advancing the vision of our clients across the country through our collaborative, solutions-oriented approach to client matters.
Because the scope of our clients’ needs can encompass multiple niche areas of health law, our attorneys often collaborate to share their diverse insights, providing our clients with comprehensive, contemporary legal advice and business consultation.
While we continue to adapt our services and structure to accommodate current trends and changes within the health care industry, our firm has never wavered from the tradition of excellence on which it was founded. Client service is the cornerstone of Hall Render, and with more than 150 attorneys throughout the country singularly focused on serving the health care industry, there isn’t a health care issue we haven’t solved.

Featured Attorney
Christopher C. Eades
Indianapolis Office
Chris Eades focuses his practice in the areas of virtual care and medical staff governance. With respect to the latter, Chris regularly counsels clients on matters involving medical staff credentialing and peer review, as well as interpretation and application of hospital and professional licensure rules, Medicare conditions of participation, accreditation standards, and medical staff governing documents.
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Jennifer Fouts Skeels
Indianapolis Office
Jennifer works extensively with hospitals, physicians and others on value-based payment models, including bundled payment and gainsharing models.
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James L. Burke
Denver Office
Jim Burke advises clients, including some of the nation’s largest hospitals, health care systems and physician practices, on strategic and financial matters.
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Robert A. Hamill
Raleigh Office
Bobby's practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions and securities offerings. In connection with his M&A practice, Bobby advises clients on strategic matters, corporate governance, representations and warranties insurance, corporate practice of medicine and regulatory compliance.
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Regan E. Tankersley
Indianapolis Office
Regan is a member of the firm's Health Economics and Health Regulatory practice groups, focusing on health care regulatory and payment policy matters.
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Julie K. Lappas
Indianapolis Office
Julie focuses her practice on counseling pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), hospitals and provider-sponsored health plans on a wide range of pharmacy, PBM and managed care matters.
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Liza R. Brooks
Detroit Office
Working with a variety of health care providers and service providers within the health care industry, Liza enjoys developing innovative and collaborative strategies to help her clients meet their goals.
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Mary Kate Liffrig
Denver Office
Mary Kate Liffrig focuses her practice in the area of labor and employment law, with an emphasis on counseling employers through all areas of the employment relationship.
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Steven H. Pratt
Indianapolis Office
Steve concentrates his practice on hospital and physician transactions, mergers and acquisitions, compliance counsel, false claims/qui tam actions, fraud and abuse/Stark, hospital and health system counsel and tax exemption.
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Charlotte M. Fillenwarth
Indianapolis Office
Charlotte focuses her practice on employment-based immigration in the health care industry by assisting clients with the recruitment and retention of foreign talent on a national, regional and local level.
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Erin M. Drummy
Indianapolis Office
Erin Drummy is a shareholder in the firm’s Indianapolis office with nearly 20 years of experience advising the spectrum of health care industry clients on legal and business considerations.
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Ritu Kaur Cooper
Washington, D.C. Office
Ritu Kaur Cooper is a shareholder in Hall Render's health regulatory section serving as the Co-Office Managing Partner of Hall Render’s Washington, DC office and Co-Leader of the firm's compliance service line.
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Michael Lee Kim
Indianapolis Office
Michael Kim leads the firm's immigration practice and focuses entirely on business immigration matters. He routinely handles a wide-range of employment-based immigration matters for hospitals, health care entities, physician practice groups, corporations, businesses and individuals across the United States.
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Rubin Pusha
Indianapolis Office
Rubin Pusha III focuses his practice in the area of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. As a strong advocate for his clients, Rubin has a deep understanding of the industry and his clients’ business structures, allowing him to provide high-quality counsel and strategically position an entity for success in its business dealings.
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Scott J. Geboy
Milwaukee Office
Scott's experience includes the regulatory areas applicable to large health care system transactions and operations, principally federal tax exemption, the Stark self-referral regulations, the federal anti-kickback laws and Medicare reimbursement.
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Katherine A. Kuchan
Milwaukee Office
Katherine Kuchan is a shareholder and Nurse Attorney focusing her practice on regulatory and compliance matters. Katherine serves as co-leader of the firm’s compliance service line.
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Larry R. Jensen
Detroit Office
Larry Jensen represents health care providers throughout the country in all aspects of civil litigation, medical staff and physician relations matters, and conducts internal investigations.
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Colleen M. Powers
Indianapolis Office
Colleen Powers provides advice and counsel to some of our country's largest health systems, physician group practices and health care management organizations.
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Lauren G. Hulls
Indianapolis Office
Lauren Hulls practices in the areas of regulatory compliance, reimbursement, billing and payment practices. She provides counsel in developing strategies and policies for health care entities to ensure compliance with the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including provider-based issues, provider enrollment, evaluation of payment, disclosure and compliance issues.
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Laetitia L. Cheltenham
Raleigh Office
Laetitia Cheltenham is a nationally certified health care provider and health law attorney. She focuses her practice on advising hospitals, health systems, clinical laboratories and other health care providers on a broad range of strategic and operational issues, including managed care contracting; reimbursement; value-based payment models; licensure and certification matters; clinical services and patient care...Read More
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William (Bill) H. Thompson
Indianapolis Office
Bill Thompson concentrates his practice on complex transactional matters, assisting clients with a wide range of deal structures. With dedicated industry knowledge to provide practical solutions to clients’ complex challenges, Bill serves as a trusted partner with the experience and drive necessary to get the deal done. Working alongside his clients nationwide, which include hospitals,...Read More
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Julie K. Lappas
Indianapolis Office
Julie Lappas is a Shareholder in the firm’s Indianapolis office and Co-Leader of the firm’s Clinical Integration and Managed Care Service Line. She focuses her practice on counseling pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), hospitals and provider-sponsored health plans on a wide range of pharmacy, PBM and managed care matters. Prior to joining Hall Render, Julie...Read More
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Employee Benefits
Hall Render attorneys routinely counsel corporations, government entities and nonprofit organizations in all aspects of employee benefits. We advise our clients in the design, drafting, implementation and interpretation of all types of retirement, welfare benefit and fringe benefit plans. We also represent employee benefits professionals, such as consultants and third party administrators. Once a plan...Read More
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Tax-exempt organizations represent a major component of the health care sector. Because Hall Render focuses its practice primarily on health care organizations, our lawyers have unique insights into the challenges such organizations face in obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status. Our tax-exempt clients include health systems, hospitals, physician organizations, foundations, trade associations and virtually every other...Read More
Learn more about Tax ExemptionCredentialing & Peer Review
Advising hospital and medical staff leadership is a cornerstone of Hall Render’s health care practice. Our firm advises hospital and health system clients every day on both routine and complex medical staff issues, including those related to credentialing, privileging and peer review. Our attorneys counsel hospital administration, medical staff leadership and governing boards on virtually...Read More
Learn more about Credentialing & Peer ReviewHospital & Physician Transactions
Hospital and Physician Transactions Section attorneys assist clients in the highly regulated and complex area of corporate transactions between and among hospitals, health care facilities and physicians. Hall Render represents large health systems, free-standing hospitals and other health care facilities and large and small physician groups as buyers, sellers, affiliation partners and joint venture partners...Read More
Learn more about Hospital & Physician TransactionsCompliance Counsel
Health care providers of all types function in a high-risk regulatory environment. This includes, but is not limited to, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, large multi-specialty physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, laboratories, home health agencies and hospices, all of which have become common targets of governmental investigations as regulators and legislators continue to...Read More
Learn more about Compliance CounselMergers & Acquisitions
The Health Care industry is undergoing unprecedented growth and innovation. Hall Render provides mergers and acquisitions services to clients that span the health care industry, including startups focused on disrupting traditional health care delivery models, private equity portfolio and venture capital-backed roll-up companies delivering innovative health care solutions, and large multi-state health systems focused on...Read More
Learn more about Mergers & AcquisitionsReimbursement Appeals & Litigation
Hall Render attorneys have an extensive knowledge of governmental health care program reimbursement programs, as well as the complex administrative processes necessary to assist our health care clients with audits and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement-related appeals.
Learn more about Reimbursement Appeals & LitigationFraud and Abuse Counsel
There is no individual or entity that operates within the health care industry that is not touched by governmental fraud and abuse laws. Hall Render attorneys provide in-depth guidance and counsel to health care providers with respect to issues arising under these laws, including the federal Stark Law, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and their state...Read More
Learn more about Fraud and Abuse CounselVirtual Care
Hall Render has developed a team of attorneys who focus their practice in the area of Virtual Care. These attorneys regularly work with health care entities throughout the country to develop virtual care programs, and also to advise regarding the implementation and use of telemedicine technology. There is wide variability among jurisdictions in their approach...Read More
Learn more about Virtual CarePharmacy Benefit Management
Hall Render attorneys have diverse and extensive experience counseling pharmacies, providers, health plans and pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”) on issues related to pharmacy benefit management. In carrying out these services, our attorneys assist clients in developing and negotiating complex pharmacy benefit management and pharmacy services agreements, group purchasing organization arrangements and drug rebate contracts. We...Read More
Learn more about Pharmacy Benefit ManagementManaged Care
Managed care is at the core of how our clients get paid. Current expansion of managed care in Medicare and Medicaid, as well as consolidation of payors, makes understanding managed care more critical than ever. As many of Hall Render’s clients navigate the myriad of contractual, regulatory and accreditation requirements applicable to arrangements within the...Read More
Learn more about Managed CareEmployee Benefits
Hall Render attorneys routinely counsel corporations, government entities and nonprofit organizations in all aspects of employee benefits. We advise our clients in the design, drafting, implementation and interpretation of all types of retirement, welfare benefit and fringe benefit plans. We also represent employee benefits professionals, such as consultants and third party administrators. Once a plan...Read More
Learn more about Employee BenefitsTax Exemption
Tax-exempt organizations represent a major component of the health care sector. Because Hall Render focuses its practice primarily on health care organizations, our lawyers have unique insights into the challenges such organizations face in obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status. Our tax-exempt clients include health systems, hospitals, physician organizations, foundations, trade associations and virtually every other...Read More
Learn more about Tax ExemptionImmigration
The Immigration Practice Group assists nonprofit and for-profit health care entities and other employers on a national, regional and local level in all business-immigration related matters. As a health care focused law firm, we have a unique understanding of the employment-related immigration issues facing hospitals, clinics and physician groups as well as employers outside the...Read More
Learn more about ImmigrationFraud and Abuse Counsel
There is no individual or entity that operates within the health care industry that is not touched by governmental fraud and abuse laws. Hall Render attorneys provide in-depth guidance and counsel to health care providers with respect to issues arising under these laws, including the federal Stark Law, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and their state...Read More
Learn more about Fraud and Abuse CounselReimbursement & Payment Practices
Hall Render attorneys routinely assist health care clients with the economic, financial and reimbursement matters essential to the business of providing care. Our attorneys stay on top of the industry changes in areas such as health care fraud and abuse, potential false claims, access to financing and relationships with third party payors, including Medicare, Medicaid,...Read More
Learn more about Reimbursement & Payment PracticesFDA & Life Sciences
Hall Render attorneys have experience advising clients in various areas of pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology and life sciences research law. We have handled a broad spectrum of matters for our clients, including regulatory compliance, governmental investigations and defense, conducting clinical trials, product liability defense, intellectual property, labor and employment and business transactions. Our experience in...Read More
Learn more about FDA & Life SciencesMedical Staff Organization & Structure
Hall Render’s experience as a health care focused law firm with a national client base has provided us with a keen understanding of medical staff organization and operational issues, as well as unique insight into the variety of issues involved in medical staff self-governance and effective medical staff operations. Our firm advises hospitals, health systems...Read More
Learn more about Medical Staff Organization & StructureHealth Information Technology
Hall Render’s IT attorneys have been providing legal and practical advice related to information technology to health systems, hospitals, provider groups and IT licensors and service providers for more than three decades. Our legal counsel is augmented by our experienced team of IT management consultants at Hall Render Advisory Services who work closely with our...Read More
Learn more about Health Information TechnologyCompliance
ALL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS FUNCTION IN AN EVER-CHANGING, COMPLEX AND HIGH-RISK REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT. As regulators and legislators continue prioritizing enforcement actions against perceived provider fraud and abuse, government investigators continue to target providers such as health systems, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, large multi-specialty physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, laboratories, home health agencies,...Read More
Learn more about ComplianceEmployment Litigation
Hall Render’s employment litigation team understands the issues that affect hospitals, health systems and other employers. They are uniquely capable of representing organizations in large class and collective action lawsuits as well as the entire range of single plaintiff claims, including whistleblower, harassment, retaliation, FLSA, FMLA, ADA and non-compete claims. They know how staffing levels...Read More
Learn more about Employment LitigationHospital & Physician Transactions
Hospital and Physician Transactions Section attorneys assist clients in the highly regulated and complex area of corporate transactions between and among hospitals, health care facilities and physicians. Hall Render represents large health systems, free-standing hospitals and other health care facilities and large and small physician groups as buyers, sellers, affiliation partners and joint venture partners...Read More
Learn more about Hospital & Physician TransactionsReal Estate & Construction
Hall Render’s Real Estate Practice Group began in response to the demand of our broad base of health care clients. The variety of challenging issues presented and the breadth and depth of our existing commercial and tax practices made our Real Estate Practice a natural evolution for the firm. The practice has grown to represent...Read More
Learn more about Real Estate & ConstructionHospital & Physician Transactions
Hospital and Physician Transactions Section attorneys assist clients in the highly regulated and complex area of corporate transactions between and among hospitals, health care facilities and physicians. Hall Render represents large health systems, free-standing hospitals and other health care facilities and large and small physician groups as buyers, sellers, affiliation partners and joint venture partners...Read More
Learn more about Hospital & Physician TransactionsFederal Legislative & Regulatory Advocacy
A strong knowledge of health care law and the federal government forms the foundation of Hall Render’s Federal Legislative & Regulatory Advocacy practice area. Our attorneys and policy advisors bring decades of experience in the development and implementation of health policy initiatives for a variety of health care organizations. They have the knowledge and experience...Read More
Learn more about Federal Legislative & Regulatory AdvocacyCompliance Counsel
Health care providers of all types function in a high-risk regulatory environment. This includes, but is not limited to, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, large multi-specialty physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, laboratories, home health agencies and hospices, all of which have become common targets of governmental investigations as regulators and legislators continue to...Read More
Learn more about Compliance CounselMergers & Acquisitions
The Health Care industry is undergoing unprecedented growth and innovation. Hall Render provides mergers and acquisitions services to clients that span the health care industry, including startups focused on disrupting traditional health care delivery models, private equity portfolio and venture capital-backed roll-up companies delivering innovative health care solutions, and large multi-state health systems focused on...Read More
Learn more about Mergers & AcquisitionsPharmacy & 340B
Hall Render attorneys have diverse and extensive experience addressing issues unique to pharmacies of all types. These include retail chain pharmacies, specialty pharmacies, mail-order pharmacies, institutional pharmacies, home infusion pharmacies, long-term care pharmacies, compounding pharmacies, outsourcing facilities, central fill pharmacies and in-office physician pharmacies. We have extensive experience representing providers and suppliers on matters common...Read More
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