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Our attorneys have extensive experience advising healthcare clients on health planning and certificate of need (CON) matters in Georgia and surrounding states.


  • Assisted throughout the appeals process two hospital systems in securing CON authorization to offer open heart surgery despite the opposition of competing hospital systems.
  • Helped a client develop and obtain approval to establish a unique skilled nursing and intermediate care facility designed to meet the needs of special populations while benefiting taxpayers despite the opposition of competing healthcare facilities.
  • Assisted a large hospital system in obtaining a CON to establish Gamma Knife services despite the opposition of three competing hospital systems.
  • Worked with a large hospital system to obtain CON approval to establish several neonatal intensive care units over the opposition of competing providers.
  • Assisted a large hospital system in successfully challenging large multispecialty ambulatory surgery centers throughout the administrative and judicial appeals process.
  • Assisting a large hospital system in establishing hospital-based radiation therapy services despite the opposition of another large hospital system as well as the opposition of a free-standing multistate radiation therapy provider.

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