The firm devotes considerable attention to clients with matters involving healthcare law.  While the discipline referred to as “healthcare law” is not uniformly defined, we prefer to think of our work as serving the comprehensive needs of healthcare providers in their various pursuits. 

The experience of those practicing in these areas includes:

  • Alternative Dispute Resolutions
  • Healthcare Lending
  • Antitrust
  • Information Technologies
  • Business Entity Formation and Transactions
  • Insurance
  • Certificate of Need
  • Joint Ventures
  • Contracts
  • Licensure
  • Credentialing
  • Managed Care
  • Compliance Programs
  • Medical Records
  • Emerging Business
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Employment Issues
  • Professional Corporations
  • Food and Drug Law
  • Professional Rights and Disciplinary Actions
  • Fraud and Abuse
  • Real Estate
  • Government Contracting
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Health Maintenance Organizations
  • Tax

The firm’s clients cover the spectrum of healthcare providers and payors including the following:

  • proprietary, non-profit hospitals, and academic medical centers, outpatient diagnostic clinics, ambulatory care and surgical centers, home health agencies,and other healthcare facilities
  • single-specialty and multi-specialty physician and dental group practices
  • physician practice management companies
  • retirement, long-term care, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities
  • insurance companies, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, physician hospital organizations and similar entities

Our clients are served by a  team-oriented approach which gives them the flexibility to call a limited number of attorneys or staff that are familiar with their specific needs and concerns. Our healthcare attorneys take pride in their ability to collaborate with each other and their clients to solve the novel and complex problems posed by a rapidly changing healthcare industry.  As new challenges arise,Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C.,  looks forward to working with its healthcare clients to find the solutions necessary for those clients to compete effectively in the marketplace.

William B. Stewart 
Tel: (205) 870-0555 
Fax: (205) 871-7534 
E-mail: ws@wallacejordan.com


William A. Ratliff
J. Birch Bowdre
Michael J. Brandt
Kimberly R. West
Michael L. Jackson
Phillip D. Corley, Jr.
Laura M. Jackman


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