Healthcare

Overview

For healthcare organizations, success is built on strategic execution, regulatory clarity, and operational precision—grounded in clinical insight and innovation. Thriving in this dynamic landscape requires an integrated bench of strategists and lawyers who connect clinical, commercial, technical, and regulatory decisions to business value. That’s exactly what the Michael Best Healthcare team delivers.

Our Healthcare group partners with organizations across the healthcare spectrum to accelerate growth, bring new solutions to market, and support transformative care. We work where healthcare law and business strategy meet, offering practical solutions to your most pressing challenges.

With deep industry knowledge, our team provides integrated legal, financial, and operational guidance to help clients lead with confidence in a complex environment.

Our Approach

Our interdisciplinary team combines former healthcare executives and experienced legal counsel. Together, we deliver tailored support across product-market fit, FDA strategy, entity formation, PC-MSO structuring, contract management, workforce strategy, data governance, and more. Our Healthcare team offers fractional advisory options that provide scalable solutions aligned with your organizational needs and growth trajectory.

Focus Areas

Innovators

Michael Best’s Healthcare team helps innovators move from idea to launch faster with smart strategy, rigorous compliance, and process optimization. Through our comprehensive advisory model, we can help you get from ideation to commercialization. We continuously source, vet, and position your solutions to the right use cases and customers, accelerating market readiness and adoption.

Support includes:

Go-to-market strategy execution
Regulatory pathway planning
Legal entity formation
PC-MSO structuring
Commercial contract negotiation and management
Payer contracting and reimbursement models
HIPAA, data privacy and cybersecurity frameworks 
Fractional advisory support
FDA and medical device applications and compliance
Navigating emerging AI and data use issues

Providers & Health Systems

Healthcare organizations are under constant pressure to innovate, scale, and meet evolving regulations—all without compromising care quality. Michael Best’s Healthcare team turns complexity into clear, actionable strategies, providing proven legal and operational guidance. We help healthcare systems and providers move confidently on sustainable paths to growth and legal compliance.

Services include:

Value-based contract modeling
Reimbursement strategy
Payer engagement
PC-MSO structuring
Credentialing and billing
Telehealth compliance
Privacy and cybersecurity
Talent alignment and workforce strategy 
Fractional advisory support

Healthcare Payers

Health payers need a clear path to high-value solutions that deliver measurable impact—but the search takes time. We streamline the process, connecting payers with vetted innovators through a rigorous market-readiness framework. Our team vets hundreds of innovators annually, ensuring you gain access to best-in-class technologies that improve outcomes, enhance efficiency, and drive value-based care. We provide the insights and innovation to help you lead in a competitive market.

Services include:

Access to pre-vetted new healthcare solutions
Innovation sourcing for specific use cases
Competitive landscape analysis
Funding and reimbursement models
ROI validation and actuarial analysis
Regulatory strategies

International Entrants

Entering the U.S. healthcare market presents unique challenges that require specialized expertise. Michael Best helps international healthcare companies navigate U.S. regulations and industry standards, crafting market entry strategies aligned with clinical and commercial goals. We also advise on cross-border transactions, entity structuring, strategic partnerships, and compliance programs to accelerate scaling and mitigate risk.

Services include:

U.S. market entry
Regulatory compliance
Go-to-market strategy
Operational planning
Market acceleration

Investors & Acclerators

Healthcare investors and accelerators need legal partners who understand both investment dynamics and healthcare regulatory requirements. We provide healthcare legal services tailored to support investment strategies, due diligence, and portfolio company growth.

Michael Best navigates the complexities of healthcare compliance law to protect your investments while enabling innovation and market expansion. Our team helps identify regulatory risks, structure compliant business models, and create governance frameworks that support growth objectives.