Whiteford's Healthcare Law group advises healthcare entities (including managed care companies, hospitals, medical groups, e-health companies, insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers, vision centers, practice management companies, ambulatory centers and other facilities) with respect to legal issues specific to the healthcare industry. Our Healthcare Law Group draws upon the diverse talents of attorneys firm-wide with experience in virtually every aspect of legal practice.
The Healthcare Law Group provides counsel on all aspects of health law ranging from fraud and abuse and corporate practice of medicine to government regulation and privacy. We counsel clients on HIPAA compliance as well as federal and state laws regulating managed care, Medicare and Medicaid. The Group also counsels and represents clients on matters related to compliance with anti-kickback statutes, self-referral legislation (the "Stark Law") and defending against False Claims Act actions. Our attorneys advise healthcare clients with respect to antitrust issues inherent in such matters as preferred provider organizations, joint venture arrangements and mergers and acquisitions.
In addition, the Healthcare Law Group provides guidance to insurance carriers and employers on health benefit plans. Our healthcare attorneys work closely with our Employee Benefits practice group to assist in the design of managed care mechanisms for employers and negotiations with direct contracting providers. Attorneys in the Healthcare Law Group routinely advise with respect to the laws relating to tax-exempt organizations and represent both tax-exempt organizations and for profit healthcare business in all types of business transactions, including, without limitation, joint ventures, mergers, corporate reorganizations, sales of business assets, stock or membership interests and numerous other types of transactions relating to or arising from the integrated delivery systems used to deliver healthcare services to the public.
Healthcare Litigation
Our Healthcare Litigation attorneys provide a wide array of litigation and consultative services to hospitals, pharmacy networks, physicians, dentists, HMOs, physician practice groups, nurses, mental health counselors, and nursing homes. These attorneys have defended practitioners, hospitals and healthcare groups in lawsuits before the Maryland Health Claims Arbitration Office and the federal and state trial courts throughout Maryland and the District of Columbia. The cases we are able to handle involve all healthcare specialties, including obstetrics and gynecology, neurosurgery, pediatrics, cardiothoracic surgery, transplant surgery, psychiatry, ophthalmology, oncology, radiology, urology, pathology, oral surgery, periodontics, prosthodontics, nursing, geriatric care, and physical therapy.
In addition, we provide risk management counseling services to clients. These services include lectures, mock trials, and other presentations to insurance carriers and individual insureds as well as to hospital risk managers and departments and hospital medical staffs.
Our attorneys also represent physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals in credentialing disputes and investigations and disciplinary actions before specialty boards. Our attorneys often are asked to assist physician groups and hospitals in formulating policies regarding retention and disclosure of medical records and other office practices that affect the potential risk/liability of the provider.
Client Alert: Federal Pressure on State Medicaid Fraud Units and What It Means for Providers
Client Alert: 2026 Health Care Fraud Takedown Includes Virginia and a Renewed Focus on Medicaid Cases
Client Alert: 2026 Health Care Fraud Takedown Includes Virginia and a Renewed Focus on Medicaid Cases
Client Alert: Fourth Circuit Reverses Medicaid Fraud Convictions in U.S. v. Davis: A Reminder That Pattern Evidence Is Not a Substitute for Count-Specific Proof
Case Summary
In an unpublished opinion issued April 24, 2026, a divided Fourth Circuit panel reversed two convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 1347, holding that evidence of a generally questionable billing practice could not, on its own, establish that the specific claims charged in the indictment were false.Client Alert: Fourth Circuit Reverses Medicaid Fraud Convictions in U.S. v. Davis: A Reminder That Pattern Evidence Is Not a Substitute for Count-Specific Proof
Case Summary
In an unpublished opinion issued April 24, 2026, a divided Fourth Circuit panel reversed two convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 1347, holding that evidence of a generally questionable billing practice could not, on its own, establish that the specific claims charged in the indictment were false.Client Alert: Guidance on Educating Employees Turning 65 About Health Coverage Options
Client Alert: Guidance on Educating Employees Turning 65 About Health Coverage Options
Client Alert: 2025 Legislative Changes for CCRCs
Client Alert: 2025 Legislative Changes for CCRCs
Client Alert: The Fourth Circuit Issues Sweeping Decision on Patient Assistance Programs and the Anti-Kickback Statute
Client Alert: The Fourth Circuit Issues Sweeping Decision on Patient Assistance Programs and the Anti-Kickback Statute
Client Alert: The End of Chevron Bias: A Tombstone No Federally Regulated Company Should Miss
Client Alert: The End of Chevron Bias: A Tombstone No Federally Regulated Company Should Miss
Client Alert: What You Need to Know About the FTC’s Changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule and How to Comply
Client Alert: What You Need to Know About the FTC’s Changes to the Health Breach Notification Rule and How to Comply
Client Alert: The Sixth Circuit Deepens the Split on False Claims Act Actions Based on the Anti-Kickback Statute
The Court addressed two key points. First, it held that a violation of the AKS must be based on the payment of money or actual transfer of something of value. Second, it held that to prove a violation of the FCA, a relator must demonstrate but-for causation. In doing so, the Sixth Circuit has added another defendant-friendly ruling to the existing, and perhaps growing, circuit split.
Client Alert: The Sixth Circuit Deepens the Split on False Claims Act Actions Based on the Anti-Kickback Statute
The Court addressed two key points. First, it held that a violation of the AKS must be based on the payment of money or actual transfer of something of value. Second, it held that to prove a violation of the FCA, a relator must demonstrate but-for causation. In doing so, the Sixth Circuit has added another defendant-friendly ruling to the existing, and perhaps growing, circuit split.
Webinar: Contracts 101
Webinar: Contracts 101
Webinar: Guardianships and Powers of Attorney
Webinar: Guardianships and Powers of Attorney
Medical Record Law in Maryland - WTP speaker
Gain new insights in the latest developments surrounding HIPAA, HITECH and medical records law.
Medical Record Law in Maryland - WTP speaker
Gain new insights in the latest developments surrounding HIPAA, HITECH and medical records law.
Maryland Medical Record Laws: Practical and legal applications - WTP speaker
This seminar will address HIPAA risk assessments, compliance changes, breaches of regulations, and the Omnibus Rule, and will offer 6 CLE credits under AAPC, ACHE, AHIMA, ICRM, and NAB.
For more information and to receive a 20% discount, click here.
Maryland Medical Record Laws: Practical and legal applications - WTP speaker
This seminar will address HIPAA risk assessments, compliance changes, breaches of regulations, and the Omnibus Rule, and will offer 6 CLE credits under AAPC, ACHE, AHIMA, ICRM, and NAB.
For more information and to receive a 20% discount, click here.
HIPAA Compliance: What You Need to Know - WTP speaker
This webinar is hosted by Goodwill Industries.
HIPAA Compliance: What You Need to Know - WTP speaker
This webinar is hosted by Goodwill Industries.
2003 Health Care Legislative Update - Part 1: Highlights of the 2003 Legislative Session
The General Assembly adjourned on April 7, 2003 and the Session actively concluded when the Governor enacted legislation into State law during four separate signing ceremonies on April 8, April 22, May 13 and May 22. This year, as has been the case for the past several years, the Maryland Legislature was particularly active in the health care arena. The Legislature passed, and the Governor signed, a substantial number of important health care laws.
2003 Health Care Legislative Update - Part 1: Highlights of the 2003 Legislative Session
The General Assembly adjourned on April 7, 2003 and the Session actively concluded when the Governor enacted legislation into State law during four separate signing ceremonies on April 8, April 22, May 13 and May 22. This year, as has been the case for the past several years, the Maryland Legislature was particularly active in the health care arena. The Legislature passed, and the Governor signed, a substantial number of important health care laws.
2003 Health Care Legislative Update - Part 2: Highlights of the 2003 Legislative Session
2003 Health Care Legislative Update - Part 2: Highlights of the 2003 Legislative Session
2002 Maryland Legislative Update, Part 1
Each year the Maryland Legislature enacts a number of laws which impact in various degrees on the personal and business lives of people living in or doing business in the State of Maryland. The General Assembly adjourned on April 8, 2002, and the Session actively concluded when the Governor enacted legislation into State law during four separate signing ceremonies on April 9, April 25, May 6 and May 16.
2002 Maryland Legislative Update, Part 1
Each year the Maryland Legislature enacts a number of laws which impact in various degrees on the personal and business lives of people living in or doing business in the State of Maryland. The General Assembly adjourned on April 8, 2002, and the Session actively concluded when the Governor enacted legislation into State law during four separate signing ceremonies on April 9, April 25, May 6 and May 16.
87 Whiteford Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers in America 2027
Chambers Recognizes Whiteford in a Record 16 Practices
Chambers Recognizes Whiteford in a Record 16 Practices
Richmond Spotlight: Vern Inge
Richmond Spotlight: Vern Inge
Richmond Spotlight: Michael H. Brady
Richmond Spotlight: Michael H. Brady
Richmond Spotlight: Joseph E.H. "Eric" Atkinson
Richmond Spotlight: Joseph E.H. "Eric" Atkinson
Richmond Spotlight: Dale Mullen, Co-Chair, Corporate & Securities
Richmond Spotlight: Dale Mullen, Co-Chair, Corporate & Securities
Best Law Firms Recognizes Over 45 Whiteford Practices, Including 23 Nationally
Best Law Firms Recognizes Over 45 Whiteford Practices, Including 23 Nationally
83 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2026
83 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2026
Leading Corporate Lawyer Clare Lewis Joins Whiteford in Richmond
Leading Corporate Lawyer Clare Lewis Joins Whiteford in Richmond
Chambers Recognizes Whiteford in a Record 15 Practices
Chambers Recognizes Whiteford in a Record 15 Practices
Spencer Cox and Chip Hancock Join Whiteford in Richmond
Spencer Cox and Chip Hancock Join Whiteford in Richmond
Whiteford Ranked in Top Tier in 43 Practices, 22 Nationally
Whiteford Ranked in Top Tier in 43 Practices, 22 Nationally
Virginia Lawyers Weekly Recognizes Betsy Davis and Rachel Carey
Virginia Lawyers Weekly Recognizes Betsy Davis and Rachel Carey
77 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2025
77 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2025
Record 33 Whiteford Attorneys Recognized by Chambers
Record 33 Whiteford Attorneys Recognized by Chambers
Best Law Firms Awards Top-Tier Rankings to 40 Whiteford Practices, Including 21 Nationally
Best Law Firms Awards Top-Tier Rankings to 40 Whiteford Practices, Including 21 Nationally
Whiteford Expands Healthcare Practice with Three Richmond Attorneys
Whiteford Expands Healthcare Practice with Three Richmond Attorneys
A Record 87 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2024, Ten Selected as “Ones to Watch”
A Record 87 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2024, Ten Selected as “Ones to Watch”
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 14 Practice Areas
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 14 Practice Areas
U.S. News Awards Top-Tier Rankings to 43 Whiteford Practices, Including 20 Nationally
U.S. News Awards Top-Tier Rankings to 43 Whiteford Practices, Including 20 Nationally
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 14 Practice Areas
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 14 Practice Areas
U.S. News Awards Top-Tier Rankings to Record 45 Whiteford Practices, Including 21 Nationally
U.S. News Awards Top-Tier Rankings to Record 45 Whiteford Practices, Including 21 Nationally
75 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2022, Eight Named “Ones to Watch”
75 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2022, Eight Named “Ones to Watch”
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 11 Practice Areas
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 11 Practice Areas
Sigrid Haines Honored as Healthcare Professional of the Year
Sigrid Haines Honored as Healthcare Professional of the Year
71 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2021, Six Named “Lawyer of the Year”
71 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2021, Six Named “Lawyer of the Year”
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 10 Practice Areas
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 10 Practice Areas
U.S. News Awards Top-Tier Rankings to 42 Whiteford Practices, Including a Record 20 Nationally and 10 Newly Ranked in Richmond
U.S. News Awards Top-Tier Rankings to 42 Whiteford Practices, Including a Record 20 Nationally and 10 Newly Ranked in Richmond
64 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2020, Five Named “Lawyer of the Year”
64 Whiteford Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2020, Five Named “Lawyer of the Year”
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 11 Practice Areas in 2019
Chambers Honors Whiteford in 11 Practice Areas in 2019
U.S. News Awards Top-Tier Rankings to 46 Whiteford Practices, Including 18 Nationally
U.S. News Awards Top-Tier Rankings to 46 Whiteford Practices, Including 18 Nationally
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Attorneys Honored by Chambers and Partners in 12 Practice Areas
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Attorneys Honored by Chambers and Partners in 12 Practice Areas
Whiteford Ranks National Tier 1 in Litigation, Bankruptcy and Real Estate
Baltimore – Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that U.S. News and World Report - Best Lawyers ® “Best Law Firms” has awarded the firm exemplary rankings for 2018. Nineteen of the firm’s practices are ranked at the national level, including three practices with national Tier 1 rankings: Litigation, Bankruptcy and Real Estate. At the state level, an additional fifty practices have been ranked in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and VA.
Whiteford Ranks National Tier 1 in Litigation, Bankruptcy and Real Estate
Baltimore – Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that U.S. News and World Report - Best Lawyers ® “Best Law Firms” has awarded the firm exemplary rankings for 2018. Nineteen of the firm’s practices are ranked at the national level, including three practices with national Tier 1 rankings: Litigation, Bankruptcy and Real Estate. At the state level, an additional fifty practices have been ranked in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and VA.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston and 29 Lawyers Honored by Chambers and Partners
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that Chambers and Partners has once again ranked the firm highly in its 2017 list of leading firms and business lawyers. This year’s recognition includes a record 29 attorneys in 4 states, the District of Columbia and Afghanistan.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston and 29 Lawyers Honored by Chambers and Partners
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that Chambers and Partners has once again ranked the firm highly in its 2017 list of leading firms and business lawyers. This year’s recognition includes a record 29 attorneys in 4 states, the District of Columbia and Afghanistan.
Health Care and Elder Law Attorney Sigrid C. Haines Joins Whiteford
Whiteford Taylor & Preston announced today that prominent Maryland health care attorney Sigrid C. Haines has joined the firm as a partner in its Columbia and Baltimore offices. With decades of experience in health care and elder law, Ms. Haines is experienced representing hospitals, medical and health-related foundations, health care systems, nursing homes, home health agencies, physicians and pharmacies.
Health Care and Elder Law Attorney Sigrid C. Haines Joins Whiteford
Whiteford Taylor & Preston announced today that prominent Maryland health care attorney Sigrid C. Haines has joined the firm as a partner in its Columbia and Baltimore offices. With decades of experience in health care and elder law, Ms. Haines is experienced representing hospitals, medical and health-related foundations, health care systems, nursing homes, home health agencies, physicians and pharmacies.
Forty-one Whiteford Attorneys Named Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in Maryland and Kentucky for 2017
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that 41 of its attorneys are listed among the 2017 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in Maryland and Kentucky joining the sixteen who were listed earlier this year in Delaware, D.C., Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Forty-one Whiteford Attorneys Named Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in Maryland and Kentucky for 2017
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that 41 of its attorneys are listed among the 2017 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in Maryland and Kentucky joining the sixteen who were listed earlier this year in Delaware, D.C., Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston and 21 Lawyers Named as Leaders in the Legal Profession by Chambers and Partners
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that, in addition to ranking the firm highly in its 2016 list of Maryland’s leading firms and business lawyers, Chambers and Partners have added new Whiteford lawyers in Maryland and Delaware.
The practice group rankings are based on the high rankings of 21 individual lawyers.
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston and 21 Lawyers Named as Leaders in the Legal Profession by Chambers and Partners
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston is pleased to announce that, in addition to ranking the firm highly in its 2016 list of Maryland’s leading firms and business lawyers, Chambers and Partners have added new Whiteford lawyers in Maryland and Delaware.
The practice group rankings are based on the high rankings of 21 individual lawyers.
59 Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2016, Eight Named as “Lawyers of the Year”
Fifty-nine lawyers from Whiteford, Taylor & Preston have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016 (copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken S.C.). The lawyers selected are based in the firm’s Maryland, Washington and Virginia offices.
59 Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2016, Eight Named as “Lawyers of the Year”
Fifty-nine lawyers from Whiteford, Taylor & Preston have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016 (copyright 2015 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken S.C.). The lawyers selected are based in the firm’s Maryland, Washington and Virginia offices.
U.S. News & World Report: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Once Again Ranked in More Practices than Any Other Firm in Maryland
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP is very gratified to announce that the firm has once again received exemplary ratings in the fifth annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of law firms.
U.S. News & World Report: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Once Again Ranked in More Practices than Any Other Firm in Maryland
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP is very gratified to announce that the firm has once again received exemplary ratings in the fifth annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of law firms.
U.S. News & World Report: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Highest Ranked Maryland Firm
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP is very gratified to announce that the firm has received exemplary ratings in the second annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of law firms. In Maryland, WTP was rated highly in 34 practice areas, more than any other firm in the state.
U.S. News & World Report: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Highest Ranked Maryland Firm
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP is very gratified to announce that the firm has received exemplary ratings in the second annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of law firms. In Maryland, WTP was rated highly in 34 practice areas, more than any other firm in the state.