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Health Law
Our firm provides comprehensive legal services tailored to Puerto Rico’s healthcare industry, combining regulatory, transactional, and litigation support. Clients include providers, insurers, and public health organizations, advised on compliance with Puerto Rico Department of Health rules and federal programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and HIPAA. The practice also supports healthcare fraud-and-abuse prevention, licensing and credentialing, and the structuring of financings, reimbursements, telemedicine, and digital-health initiatives.
Healthcare organizations receive deal support for mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, including due diligence, antitrust analysis, and industry-standard transaction structuring. With deep knowledge of Puerto Rico’s healthcare system, the group helps clients navigate evolving laws while protecting operational and business objective.
Administrative Agency Proceedings
Services include licensing, permits, audits, investigations, and enforcement matters. The team handles compliance counseling, responses to information requests, administrative appeals, and negotiated resolutions designed to minimize operational disruption and regulatory risk, including issues tied to billing, accreditation, and quality-of-care standards. Healthcare organizations receive deal support for mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, including due diligence, antitrust analysis, and industry-standard transaction structuring.
Banking and Financial Services
Financial institutions and investors are advised on healthcare-related financings and transactions, including AML/BSA compliance, lending risk, and due diligence for healthcare M&A and joint ventures. Support covers structuring loans, investments, and debt arrangements; managing exposure tied to fraud or improper billing; navigating Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement implications; and guiding cross-border healthcare financings and digital-health investments.
Commercial Litigation
The firm handles healthcare-sector disputes across Puerto Rico, including contract and insurance conflicts, reimbursement and billing disputes, financing-related claims, fraud/non-compliance defense, IP (patent/trademark) issues, and antitrust matters.
Government Affairs & Public Policy
Strategic advocacy is provided in Puerto Rico’s health-law legislative and regulatory arena, engaging the Legislative Assembly, administrative agencies, and public health authorities. Services include monitoring and responding to proposed reforms, drafting or negotiating policy changes, and building coalitions to advance client priorities on innovation, access to care, and sustainable healthcare financing, backed by data-driven policy guidance.
