DGS provides counseling, transactional, and litigation services to hospitals and health care systems, physician practice groups and other providers.  Our health care lawyers are on the cutting edge of health care law and regularly advise clients on HIPAA, patient confidentiality issues, antitrust compliance, credentialing, peer review, medical staff issues, employment matters, tax-exempt entity concerns, hospital/physician recruiting, group practice formation, regulatory compliance, stark and fraud and abuse issues, and other arrangements.  We have assisted healthcare clients in real estate transactions, the formation of joint ventures, mergers, tax issues, and employee benefit matters.  Our trial attorneys handle a wide variety of health care and hospital litigation, including antitrust, peer review and credentialing disputes, insurance coverage and payment litigation, employment lawsuits, issues between hospitals and physician groups, the enforcement of covenants not to compete, and the full gamut of commercial disputes faced by modern health care providers.