We provide legal assistance to healthcare providers and healthcare institutions in their organization of healthcare services, the structuring of their business relationships and financial arrangements mutually between them.
We also assist healthcare providers and healthcare institutions in proceedings that relate to how they conduct their jobs and operations. This includes assisting them in administrative and disciplinary proceedings on how one conducts and performs his or her medical and paramedical professions and in liability disputes.
Some examples of our work in medical law and healthcare law include:
- advising healthcare institutions on their governance and financing schemes;
- assisting in the programme development and recognition of hospitals, hospital networks, and healthcare programmes;
- advising medical boards on the status (and financial status) of physicians in healthcare institutions;
- advising on the legislation in relation to healthcare jobs and professions (recognition, professional title, status, work-base or establishment, etc.);
- editing and analysing contracts (and association contracts) between healthcare providers mutually or contracts with third parties, mediating, or bringing legal actions subsequent to contractual disputes between healthcare providers and healthcare institutions, disputes between healthcare institutions, and disputes between healthcare providers;
- advising on data protection and privacy in the health sector;
- advising on patients’ rights (information, consent, patient file management, representation, professional secrecy, etc.) and when these rights apply;
- assisting disciplinary bodies in deontological proceedings against healthcare providers;
- advising on the legislation regarding health insurance (classification, disputes with RIZIV, which is the acronym for the Dutch name of the Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance);
- assisting in civil and criminal proceedings regarding medical liability and procedures for filing a claim with the Medical Accident Compensation Fund (het Fonds Medische Ongevallen / Fonds des accidents médicaux);
- advising on the obligations of healthcare providers in the context of the Belgian Code of Economic Law;
- assisting in the collection of payments for overdue hospital invoices.
