Looking for an Austin healthcare lawyer? Dike Law Group advises physicians, practices, med spas, and healthcare businesses across Travis County and Central Texas on compliance, contracts, employment, and defense. Browse our healthcare legal services.
Austin healthcare businesses meet the law at four points: formation, operations, a transaction, and a regulatory challenge. As the state capital, Austin is home to the Texas Medical Board and the Health and Human Services Commission, so local providers sit near the agencies that license, audit, and pay them. Dike Law Group covers each stage through its statewide healthcare practice.
Texas law generally requires physician ownership of a medical practice, so entity choice comes first. We form the entity and handle board filings and payor enrollment. Start with our Texas medical practice set-up page and launch checklist.
Employment agreements, management services agreements, vendor contracts, buy-ins, and sale documents can bind an Austin provider for years. We review pay, termination, and restrictive covenants before signing. See our healthcare contract and physician contract review pages.
Before an audit arrives, a healthcare compliance lawyer Austin clinics call can review Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), HIPAA, and corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) exposure. See our compliance and regulatory page. The HHS Office for Civil Rights enforces HIPAA.
UPIC and RAC audits, OIG subpoenas, overpayment demands, and False Claims Act exposure call for counsel before anyone answers. Texas Medicaid matters can involve the HHSC Office of Inspector General, and our Medicare fraud defense team steps in at the first letter.
Buying or selling an Austin practice or surgery center turns on diligence into licenses, billing, and referral arrangements. We run healthcare M&A deals and build management services organizations for non-physician investors.
Medical director agreements, delegation protocols, and telehealth prescribing rules shape every Austin med spa. Elective IV therapy also falls under Texas House Bill 3749 (Jenifer’s Law). See our Texas med spa lawyer and Austin telemedicine attorney pages.
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Doris Dike founded Dike Law Group around healthcare law alone. Austin physicians, med spa owners, and healthcare businesses bring her compliance questions, contract reviews, licensing matters, and deal work. The firm’s mission explains why that focus matters.
She leads early risk reviews, so a routine billing or ownership question does not turn into a board complaint or an audit letter. Licensing defense matters stay with the same team.
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Healthcare lawyers apply the rules unique to medicine: practice ownership, referral and pay arrangements, billing, privacy, and board or agency investigations. Dike Law Group handles formation, contracts, compliance, deals, and defense for Austin clients from its Frisco office. The guide to what a healthcare lawyer does lists typical matters.
A healthcare compliance lawyer Austin clinics retain will review HIPAA policies, referral and pay arrangements under the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute, billing, and staff training. Texas law requires covered entities to complete employee privacy training within 90 days of hire. The Stark Law guide and HIPAA compliance checklist are good starting points.
Check compensation, call duties, termination terms, and any non-compete; a healthcare contract attorney Austin physicians consult will review all four. For physician agreements signed or renewed on or after September 1, 2025, Texas Senate Bill 1318 limits a non-compete to one year and a five-mile radius from the primary workplace. The contract review checklist explains more.
A healthcare employment lawyer Austin physicians hire will negotiate offer letters, restrictive covenants, termination language, and contractor arrangements. Texas generally treats employment as at will unless an agreement says otherwise, so the written terms control. Federal discrimination charges go to the EEOC, with a 180-day deadline that can extend to 300 days. Our healthcare employment practice covers the rest.
Call the same day. A healthcare defense attorney Austin providers retain early can manage a subpoena, Civil Investigative Demand, or UPIC audit letter before anyone answers the agency. Texas Medicaid cases can also involve the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. The first ZPIC letter guide covers the first 48 hours.
Healthcare litigation here means administrative and regulatory disputes, not malpractice or injury claims. A healthcare litigation lawyer Austin providers consult will handle licensing board hearings, compliance disputes, and contract enforcement between healthcare businesses. Dike Law Group refers malpractice, personal injury, and general civil cases elsewhere. See consequences and remedies for breach of a business contract.
The Texas Medical Board, headquartered in Austin, investigates complaints against physicians statewide. A complaint typically brings written notice and a request for a response, and formal hearings go before an administrative law judge at the State Office of Administrative Hearings under Texas Occupations Code Chapter 164. Speak with counsel before responding. This TMB investigation guide outlines each stage.
In most cases, Texas law keeps medical practice ownership with physicians under the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) doctrine. Non-physician investors usually enter through a management services organization (MSO) that serves a physician-owned practice. Read who can legally own a medical practice in Texas and our MSO structuring playbook.
