Services

Cowart Dizzia LLP is a full-service healthcare law firm dedicated to servicing the unique needs of long-term care providers in regulatory, compliance, operational and corporate matters.  

Our regulatory and compliance group focuses on addressing providers’ government and affairs needs. CDLLP Attorneys have significant experience dealing with government agencies, authorities, and municipalities as lobbyists and advocates to address agency non-compliance, CMS compliance audits and application of law issues, state plan amendments and waivers, rate-setting and budgetary issues.

CDLLP provides an array of services focused on the proactive management, reduction and elimination of receivables issues. Through assistance with Medicaid applications and redeterminations, civil litigation, private employment benefits, insurance and government benefits dispute resolution, agency administrative hearings and appellate practice we work to resolve and correct reimbursement and receivables issues.

In addition, the firm regularly provides institutions with operational support including contractual review and drafting services, licensure and change of ownership assistance. Onsite assistance for policy creation or review, and training and education for owners, operators, officers, directors and staff to review, streamline and update internal policies and procedures, as well as internal structuring, to minimize and resolve receivables issues.

Our finance and transactional group focuses on assisting healthcare providers with financing for working capital, expansion purposes, acquisition funding and debt restructuring. Constant change in today’s healthcare environment has created a broad range of issues and opportunities for healthcare providers. Managed care, service delivery, referral practices, business structures, consolidation, licensure, regulation, HIPAA law compliance and the government’s role in the industry are at the center of this complex field.   

Collaborations among Cowart Dizzia attorneys in various disciplines produce innovative legal solutions for our clients. We work together across offices and practice areas as integrated, multidisciplinary teams to provide the capabilities necessary to generate great results for our clients. 

Cowart Dizzia LLP specializes in the counseling and representation of skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, hospitals and health care providers in the areas of reimbursement, civil litigation, Medicaid and Medicaid appeals via Administrative Fair Hearings and Article 78 proceedings, Medicare, private insurance, managed care, discharge planning, restructuring, operations and regulatory, financial and contractual matters.

We regularly publish articles, lecture to professionals and counsel clients on the regulatory aspects of health law, hospital privilege issues, disciplinary actions, managed care, reimbursement and the latest federal and state laws and regulations concerning anti-kickback and professional misconduct issues. We not only offer healthcare litigation support and resolve regulatory problems after they surface, but also establish policies and create compliance solutions for clients of all sizes to prevent the type of government scrutiny so common in the current healthcare regulatory compliance climate.

Cowart Dizzia advises health care providers across the country as they navigate the complex regulatory environment surrounding day to day operations. Our attorneys have extensive experience dealing with state and federal regulators, government and private organizations and institutions, and other counsel. Cowart Dizzia attorneys also possess significant experience as advocates before government agencies, authorities, and municipalities as lobbyists and advocates. 

Our firm works at every level of the process:

• Provider enrollment applications

• Education and trainings for facilities

• Lobbying state legislators for rule changes

• Resolving eligibility issues, working with agencies and caseworkers

• Fair hearing administrative processes, and appeals

• Filing litigation or regulatory appeals to enforce facilities' rights

• Pursuing private collections via litigation, including small claims, and estate claims, and securing mortgages, judgments, liens and settlements

• Assisting with Medicaid and Medicare (consolidated) billing, licensure, or compliance issues