On the one hand healthcare institutions are deemed to be competing on portfolio choices, quality, price and financing and are dealing with directors’ liability and competition rules. On the other hand, they are heavily regulated in areas such as profit distribution, procurement, remuneration and governance. This interplay requires both medical and organisational creativity.
Focus, economies of scale, innovative healthcare and new forms of financing offer viable solutions for healthcare directors. Houthoff’s Healthcare Team understands these developments. Time and again, we demonstrate our significant added value when it comes to dealing with the healthcare sector. Our Healthcare Team comprises legal specialists who know both their own area of specialisation (such as competition law, regulations, governance, M&A, financing, privacy or labour law) and the healthcare sector inside out. If necessary, they can also rely on the expertise of Houthoff’s 280 other specialists. The Healthcare Team advise institutions on matters such as cure and care, healthcare insurers and investors.
Our expertise on Healthcare
An important part of our work comprises assisting healthcare institutions with complex strategic reorganisations. This may involve mergers, joint ventures, acquisitions, or divestments. The involvement of lawyers and civil-law notaries from different disciplines ensures that the process is carefully managed, in close consultation with the client. Whether it concerns notifying the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets or the Dutch Healthcare Authority, complex collaboration agreements, applicable healthcare legislation or the structuring of management and supervisory bodies, our Healthcare Team provides pragmatic and solid solutions. The team assisted with the complex horizontal merger between the AMC and VUmc university hospitals, and with many other hospital mergers (including in Rotterdam, Tilburg and Haarlem/Hoofddorp).
The Healthcare Team also assists new market entrants. An example of this is the advice they provided to an insurer that is set to enter the Dutch health insurance market in 2018. By involving specialists on the Dutch Financial Supervision Act, the Act on the Capping of Executive Salaries (WNT), and Dutch healthcare legislation together with experts on corporate governance structures, the Healthcare Team’s multi-disciplinary approach proved its worth.
Our multi-disciplinary Healthcare Team is actively involved in the public debate on the healthcare of the future. Our specialists provide valuable input on the major challenges facing the healthcare sector, whether this be at macro-level or at the level of one or more individual providers. Our Healthcare Team offers practical solutions that help improve healthcare.
