Mackenzie Hughes attorneys practicing within the Health Care area include:

Clayton H. Hale Jr.
Maureen Dunn McGlynn
Anne B. Ruffer

Just as patients select physicians for their expertise in a particular specialty, so too should health care providers select their attorneys based upon their expertise in handling the inordinately complex issues that affect the medical profession. Some of the region's most prominent hospitals, nursing homes, HMOs, physician practice groups, and individual providers rely upon our health care lawyers' years of experience handling the variety of special issues that uniquely affect the health care industry.

We counsel health care providers on forming, merging and acquiring practice groups, labor and employment matters, tax laws, and complying with federal and state statutory and regulatory requirements, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — all of which have unique rules that apply to the health care industry and require attorneys with knowledge of the industry to handle them.

We are a leading defender of hospitals and physicians in medical malpractice lawsuits, and we use that same litigation experience to represent health care professionals in professional disciplinary matters. We have also successfully represented health care providers in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement litigation.

Other recent accomplishments include:

• Counseling physician practices through numerous mergers and acquisitions.

• Successfully representing several major hospitals in significant medical malpractice litigation.

• Counseling a major Central New York physician's practice group through a complete restructuring of its ownership and management organization.

• Successfully defending health care providers in wrongful discharge and other related employment litigation.