KWM LAW is the nationwide full-service boutique for doctors and the healthcare market. We also offer strong expertise in private equity, advice and support for investors as well as digital topics and startups in the healthcare sector.
Found your health start-up.
Considering building your own health startup? Are you already in the start-up phase and want to place your project on a secure foundation in terms of contract law? Or are you and your company already active on the market and want to try to get your service or product reimbursed by the statutory health insurance companies in the statutory health insurance sector? Then you have come to the right place with us and our specialized healthcare innovation team. We would be happy to support your start-up project and advise you on market access. Be it the mere pilot function and legal support of the founding process at the beginning, the integration into regional networks and direct access to selected investors, it is above all the ongoing advice on all medical/commercial law issues, with which you will be confronted in the course of your company on the heavily regulated German healthcare market. In this respect, we present the opportunities created by the Digital Health Services Act (DVG) and the Digital Health Applications Ordinance (DiGAV) and point out the limits that primarily affect medical (products), data protection and demonstrate criminal law. We will also show you the framework of liability law and point out the subtleties and differences in the advertising options in the medical and dental fields. created by the Digital Health Services Act (DVG) and the Digital Health Applications Ordinance (DiGAV) and point to limits that are primarily identified by medical (products), data protection and criminal law. We will also show you the framework of liability law and point out the subtleties and differences in the advertising options in the medical and dental fields. created by the Digital Health Services Act (DVG) and the Digital Health Applications Ordinance (DiGAV) and point to limits that are primarily identified by medical (products), data protection and criminal law. We will also show you the framework of liability law and point out the subtleties and differences in the advertising options in the medical and dental fields.
Make yourself crisis-proof.
If a (dental) doctor’s practice gets into financial difficulties, the expected consequences can often only be averted with enormous expenditure of time and money. However, crises do not come out of nowhere. Rather, it is often the same mistakes with which resident (dental) doctors endanger their professional existence. Anyone who knows the pitfalls and sets the right course right at the beginning of outpatient work not only provides for times of crisis, but also usually draws the greatest economic success from (dental) medical work.
We will point out the risks, opportunities and limitations that the regulations of the German healthcare market dictate and above all discuss ways of a structural nature to lead your practice to the best possible success – even in times of crisis. In the planning stage, we advise on branching opportunities, make appropriate location analyzes and point out any legal and economic problems. We would also be happy to present you with other options and put you in touch with interested service providers or cooperation partners from the healthcare sector. With our proven experts, we advise existing practices comprehensively on all aspects of compliance and develop concepts together to put your practice on a legally secure footing.
Go for growth
The balancing act is not easy: On the one hand you want to generate higher sales and expand with your practice, on the other hand you are slowed down by the multitude of regulatory requirements. Every registered service provider in the statutory health insurance system is confronted with this tension. This is exactly where the advice from KWM LAW comes in. Thanks to our many years of experience and outstanding expertise, we develop tailor-made concepts for “your” growth and navigate you unerringly through the highly regulated healthcare market. From “exploiting” the budgets imposed by the associations of statutory health insurance physicians within the framework of the contract doctor’s remuneration system, as well as the development and legal implementation of new forms of cooperation and care, the support of various approval and other official procedures, and the drafting of contracts with medical and non-medical staff : We provide comprehensive advice and are at your side as legal advisors at every stage of your growth project. Our lawyers have many years of industry-specific experience and cover all areas of regulatory and commercial law advice. In this respect, you not only benefit from our proven legal expertise in the individual legal areas, but also from our extensive industry network.
Secure your fee
The (dental) medical fee is the basis of your economic existence, which must be secured at all times. As part of the total remuneration made in the statutory health insurance sector, it must be ensured right from the start when allocating the standard service volumes that the allocation is tailored to your individual case and, above all, appropriate. If there is also a threat of recourse on the part of the examination committees of the Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVen) and Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists (KZVen), this can have existential legal consequences, since KVen and KZVen can regularly reclaim amounts for up to four years at once. In this context, both legal advice at the beginning of your (dental) medical work and your legal representation before the contract (dental) medical examination committees are part of our day-to-day business. Not only in the area of contractual (dental) medicine, but also with regard to the entire fee owed to you from the (dental) medical activity, we are happy to take over the contract management and ensure that you receive the fee you have earned in a predictable and legally secure manner. You can rely on the many years of experience of our lawyers, who keep an eye on all the requirements of the laws, regulations, guidelines and the sometimes divergent case law.
Sell to the investor – or to yourself
Are you considering restructuring or selling your practice or other healthcare service, or at least making initial decisions about succession?
Then this is the right time to bring the right experts to your side. KWM LAW is not only characterized by extensive industry knowledge and networking, but also combines technical expertise with many years of experience in the M&A sector.
Due to our many years of specialization in outpatient healthcare, we are able to prepare, examine and implement your project in a legally compliant manner. We identify and assess the sector-specific problems within the framework of a due diligence check and, together with a corresponding contract design, lead to an appropriate and above all pragmatic solution. We not only have an extensive network of other service providers, but also and in particular the relevant contacts to strategic investors or financial investors, for whom the German outpatient healthcare market remains attractive.
In the context of restructuring, we also show you options for structuring your practice in a future-proof manner and using various tax and other advantages – for example by transferring the practice to your own GmbH.
