MEDICAL LAW
The medical professions are now more than ever caught up in a field of tension between complex medical, economic and legal relationships. Growing competition, shortage of funds in the health sector and the ongoing reform efforts of lawmakers are facing doctors in rapid succession with ever new challenges. At the same time, though, the health industry offers manifold opportunities, eg owing to the progressive liberalisation of medical advertising law and (no longer quite) new cross-disciplinary and supraregional cooperation forms. In consultation with physicians and other medical professionals, therefore, SVM Rechtsanwälte pursue a holistic approach that is not confined to the specific current problem, but also involves looking “outside the box”. In this respect, SVM Rechtsanwälte are able, thanks not least to their advisory relations with a major scientific dental society, to fall back on many years of experience. In our law office, we have specialists for health law. In particular, we offer advice in the following segments:
- Support in setting up in private practice and in the takeover / handover of a practice
- Setting up and termination / dissolution of cooperation schemes (eg, professional partnerships, job-sharing, employed physicians, assistants, medical centres)
- Registration and licensure as well as related disciplinary measures
- Issues involved in fee accounting in statutory and private health insurance and in financial support for public servants
- Performance audits (eg, recourse in drug, medicine issues)
- Civil und criminal liability of physicians
- Medical competition and advertising law
- Specific contract-law issues in connection with medical activity