Houston Healthcare Lawyer
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Healthcare Lawyers for Houston Providers and Healthcare Businesses
Dike Law Group is a healthcare law firm serving Houston physicians, clinics, med spas, pharmacies, telemedicine companies, MSO operators and healthcare investors. If you are opening a practice, structuring an MSO, responding to an audit or defending against a federal investigation, our attorneys handle the legal work so you can stay focused on running your business.
We practice healthcare law and nothing else. A Houston healthcare attorney engagement here is handled by people who work on Texas Medical Board matters, Stark Law and Anti-Kickback questions, healthcare deals and federal fraud defense every single week. That matters when your license or your billing privileges are on the line.
Healthcare Law in the Houston Market
Houston is home to the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, anchored by institutions like Houston Methodist, Memorial Hermann, MD Anderson and UTHealth. Around that core sits one of the densest private healthcare economies in the country: physician groups in the Galleria and Energy Corridor, surgery centers and freestanding ERs across Katy and Sugar Land, med spas and wellness clinics from The Heights to The Woodlands, and pharmacies and home health agencies in every part of Harris County.
All that density comes with a catch. Houston healthcare businesses compete harder, transact more and get more regulatory attention than providers almost anywhere else in Texas. The Department of Justice operates a healthcare fraud strike force in Houston, and in the June 2025 national healthcare fraud takedown alone, nearly 50 people were charged in the Southern District of Texas. A healthcare law firm serving Houston needs to work both sides of that street: helping healthcare businesses grow, and defending them when the government comes asking.
Dike Law Group represents Houston clients from our Texas practice, headquartered in Frisco and serving providers statewide. Texas Medical Board rules, CPOM restrictions, Medicare billing and federal fraud statutes apply the same in Harris County as anywhere in the state, and most of our client work runs by phone, Zoom and secure document exchange from day one.
What Our Houston Healthcare Attorneys Handle
Everything below is healthcare law, just different corners of it. Each service links to the full Texas practice page; Houston clients get the same depth with local context.
Transactions & Growth
Practice Set-Up & Healthcare Business Formation
Entity selection, Texas Medical Board requirements, CPOM-compliant structures and payor enrollment for physicians, NPs, PAs, dental practices and pharmacy owners opening or buying in Houston. Pharmacy clients get formation work that accounts for TSBP licensing and DEA registration from the start.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buying or selling a Houston practice, surgery center, pharmacy or healthcare company. Due diligence, asset and stock purchase agreements, regulatory change-of-ownership filings and the compliance review that keeps a deal from inheriting someone else’s billing problem.
Management Services Organizations (MSO)
MSO formation and management services agreements for non-physician owners, private equity platforms and investors entering the Houston market. Texas CPOM doctrine makes structure the whole game here. We build MSO arrangements that hold up to scrutiny, and we review existing ones that worry you.
Contracts
Physician employment agreements, management services agreements, vendor and billing company contracts, buy-ins and practice sale documents. Drafted, reviewed and negotiated by attorneys who work only in healthcare.
Healthcare Contracts
Regulatory & Compliance
Healthcare Regulatory Compliance
Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA, billing compliance and corporate practice of medicine. We build compliance plans for Houston practices, review referral and compensation arrangements before regulators do, and answer the questions that keep practice owners up at night.
Healthcare Compliance
Licensing Defense
Texas Medical Board complaints, nursing and pharmacy board matters, and license defense for Houston providers. Early counsel changes outcomes; the worst time to call is after you have already responded to the board on your own.
Telemedicine
Telehealth compliance for Houston-based platforms and providers, from prescribing rules and out-of-state coverage under Texas HB 1052 to DTC program structures under the latest OIG guidance.
Healthcare Employment Law
Non-competes, terminations, wage and hour issues and worker classification for Houston healthcare employers and the providers who work for them.
Defense & Enforcement
Healthcare Investigations & Audits
UPIC audits from Qlarant, MAC issues with Novitas, RAC audits, OIG subpoenas, overpayment demands and Medicare revocations. Houston providers see more of these than providers anywhere else in Texas. The deadlines on these are short, and what you send back first shapes the whole matter.
Medicare Fraud Defense
Defense for Houston physicians, pharmacies and healthcare businesses facing False Claims Act exposure, kickback allegations or federal fraud investigations. Few districts charge more healthcare cases than this one. If the OIG, DOJ or FBI has contacted you, talk to a Houston healthcare fraud lawyer before you respond to anyone.
Physician Peer Review Defense
Defense for Houston physicians facing a hospital peer review action that could suspend or strip clinical privileges. Medical staff hearings, fair-hearing rights under the bylaws, HCQIA immunity questions and the NPDB reporting that follows a doctor to credentialing and payers.
Peer Review
Specialty Practices
Medical Spas, IV Hydration & Ketamine Clinics
Houston’s wellness sector is booming and heavily regulated. We handle med spa setup and compliance, IV hydration business structures for nurse and NP owners, and ketamine clinic compliance. Start with our dedicated Houston medical spa lawyer page.
Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations
Texas Medical Board 5.01(a) nonprofit health organizations and tax-exempt healthcare entities, formed and certified correctly the first time.
Healthcare Trademarks
Practice names, med spa brands and healthcare product marks: clearance, registration and enforcement for Houston healthcare businesses protecting what they have built.
Who We Represent in Houston
- Physicians & Medical Practices
- Pharmacy Practices
- Neuro Practices
- Hospitals
- Durable Medical Equipment Companies
- Dietary Supplement Companies
- Healthcare Investors & Private Equity
- IV Infusion Companies
- Trademark Clients
- Podiatry Practices
- Dental Practices
- Home Health Agencies
- Physician Assistant Practices
- IDTF Companies
- Pharmaceutical Distributors
- Medical Spas
- Medical Marijuana/CBD Companies
- Chiropractic Practices
- Ambulatory Surgery Centers
- Staffing Agencies
- Nurse Practitioner Practices
- MSO’s
- CLIA Laboratories
- Telemedicine Companies
Under Investigation in Houston? Timing Decides More Than Anything Else.
Houston is a designated DOJ healthcare fraud strike force city. In the June 2025 national healthcare fraud takedown, nearly 50 people were charged in the Southern District of Texas alone, and a records request from Qlarant or Novitas can be the first visible sign that your billing has drawn federal attention.
If you have received a subpoena, a Civil Investigative Demand, an audit letter or any contact from the OIG, FBI or CMS, the moves you make in the first days set the direction of the entire matter. Talk to a healthcare attorney before you respond to anyone.
The Attorney Behind the Practice
Doris Dike
Managing Partner, Dike Law Group
- Licensed in Texas and Washington, DC
- Firm recognized in Chambers USA Spotlight, Texas 2026
- Top 40 Black Lawyers Under 40
Doris Dike leads Dike Law Group, practicing alongside three of counsel attorneys and an in-house Medical Director in a firm devoted to healthcare law exclusively. The firm’s attorneys have worked with healthcare providers, medical technology companies and regulated entities across Texas for years, and her commentary on healthcare business and regulatory issues has appeared in Newsweek, D Magazine, Medical Economics, Pharmacy Times, Physicians Practice and on ABC News. Clients work directly with attorneys who structure MSOs, defend providers in federal investigations and counsel healthcare businesses every working day.
Clients who work with Dike Law Group get attorneys who are genuinely invested in the outcome. We do not hand you a 50-page memo and call it advice. We break down what the law means for your specific situation and tell you exactly what to do next.
Communities We Serve Across Greater Houston
Our Houston healthcare law practice covers providers and healthcare businesses throughout Harris County and the surrounding metro, including Katy, Sugar Land, Pearland, Pasadena, Missouri City, Bellaire, Memorial, Galena Park, Jacinto City, Hedwig Village, Piney Point Village, Meadows Place, Aldine, Mt. Houston, Cloverleaf, Northline, Northshore, Eastex-Jensen, Park Place, Southbelt, Golden Acres, Brookside Village, Fairbanks, Fresno, Ellington and Galveston. Your suburb does not change the law that applies to your practice, and it does not change how we work with you either.
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