Telehealth and Telemedicine

The expansion of telehealth and telemedicine services presents our healthcare provider and services clients with new opportunities and challenges as they increasingly leverage these methods to care for patients. Our healthcare lawyers provide cutting-edge advice on telehealth models of care, skillfully guide telehealth and investor clients with business-practice advice, and regularly help clients achieve regulatory milestones. This includes securing reimbursement, completing high-profile transactions in the telehealth space, and properly structuring innovative and value-based arrangements with third parties.

Representative engagements

• Advising a company providing telehealth services on the regulatory, corporate, and employment aspects of various business model options for delivering their services, including interactions with general practitioner practices, as well as advising on the rollout of an IT platform to make digital patient consultations possible for them
• Counseling on financial arrangements between telehealth arrangements and payors
• Advising a major biotech company on a potential partnership with a telemedicine provider, including advising on the fraud and abuse considerations and the structure of the partnership agreement and governance structure
• Advising a healthcare technology and services company on state telemedicine and other healthcare laws
• Providing strategic advice to a health data innovator in an approach to data protection laws and engagement with regulators on sensible telehealth regulatory reform and clarification
• Counseling a healthcare information technology company on the privacy implications of a wide variety of patient engagement mobile app strategies, including through multijurisdictional legal analysis and global privacy policy
• Advising a healthcare technology company on novel compliance, digital health, and health privacy matters with respect to its online technology that connects health plans and systems to facilitate personalized care, particularly mental health services
• Counseling a technology company on privacy considerations for its Big Data online solution to the supply and demand disconnect that is creating inefficiencies in a specific subsector of the healthcare market
• Assisting a national healthcare provider to evaluate numerous telehealth provider and services companies for strategic alignment and acquisitions