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Healthcare Technology & Innovation: Digital Health, AI and Telemedicine

Integrated Support for Digital Health and Emerging Technologies

Sheppard provides strategic counsel to healthcare organizations and technology companies adopting AI, expanding telemedicine and managing data-driven care. 

Shaping the Future of Technology-Enabled Healthcare 

Sheppard’s Healthcare Technology lawyers represent innovators across the digital health ecosystem, serving early-stage technology companies, software developers, health systems, payors, medical device manufacturers and private equity investors.

Our cross-disciplinary team advises on the full lifecycle of digital health products and platforms, integrating deep healthcare regulatory knowledge with expertise in technology transactions, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property and corporate structuring. Clients value our practical guidance in a fast-moving environment, empowering innovators to launch, scale and safeguard digital health solutions confidently.

We guide clients through complex issues at the intersection of healthcare and technology, including state and federal licensure, corporate practice of medicine, telehealth modalities, prescribing and supervision rules, reimbursement, fraud and abuse and value-based care arrangements. Our lawyers help digital health companies deliver services across all 50 states while structuring compliant, scalable operating models. 

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Areas of Focus

Data Privacy and Security
Our award-winning healthcare privacy team includes former DHS Deputy GC, HHS/OCR investigator, a data breach book author, a former FBI Special Agent, EU data protection experts, and IAPP certified lawyers. Our team provides end-to-end support for data privacy and cybersecurity needs, from proactive privacy and data security counselling to incident response, regulatory investigations and civil litigation.
Health Information Privacy
We counsel leading healthcare organizations and technology businesses in state, federal and global health data privacy laws. We help design and implement health information technology and data strategies and build privacy and security compliance programs under HIPAA and related state laws including developing policies and procedures, product counselling, audits and risk assessments, compliance training, licensing and other types of agreements, and security incident readiness and response. We also manage web-tracking risk and guide incident response, including investigations by federal and state regulators. 
Strategic Transactions
We partner with clients to lead and close healthcare transactions with speed, certainty and a comprehensive understanding of all related business and regulatory issues. Named a Top 10 healthcare M&A firm by Healthcare M&A News in 2025, we have completed more than 120 health plan affiliations, 140 hospital M&A and joint ventures, and dozens of private equity transactions in recent years for clients ranging from regional hospitals and plans to the largest health systems and private investors in the nation.
Healthcare Regulatory and Compliance
Our regulatory work spans the full range of managed care and insurance regulations. We counsel on state and federal oversight, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and state agency interaction, product design, provider and vendor contracting market conduct, coverage determinations, utilization management and claims administration. With deep experience in Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, Part D and the ACA, we help clients navigate regulatory complexities swiftly and confidently. We advise plans on risk adjustment, quality programs, audits, marketing compliance and enforcement matters that require practical judgment and responsiveness. Many of our lawyers previously served in government, allowing us to offer clients insight into how agencies interpret and enforce regulatory requirements.
Healthcare Litigation / Government Enforcement
When the stakes are high, healthcare organizations trust us to protect their interests with bold advocacy and strategic problem-solving. Our team’s decades of courtroom and arbitration experience, combined with deep industry insight, enable us to resolve all types of disputes—from commercial disputes and business torts to regulatory enforcement actions to sensitive employment matters. We relentlessly pursue your goals, delivering creative, practical solutions that safeguard your future.
Healthcare False Claims Act Investigations and Litigation
When government scrutiny intensifies, leading healthcare organizations turn to Sheppard for defense in complex False Claims Act (FCA) litigation. With experience in over 100 FCA matters and a team that includes more than a dozen former Assistant U.S. Attorneys, we deliver innovative strategies and proven results. We routinely secure declinations and favorable outcomes in cases involving kickbacks, upcoding, HCC coding, services not rendered, Stark Law and Medicare Part D fraud.
Healthcare Real Estate and Finance
Sheppard advises health systems, providers and investors on complex healthcare and real estate transactions nationwide. We structure and execute joint ventures, acquisitions, financing (including sale-leasebacks), M&A and developments that navigate Stark, Anti-Kickback, tax and other regulatory constraints. Our integrated healthcare real estate team delivers efficient, compliant and commercially sound solutions that support growth, protect mission and drive long-term value. 
Healthcare Antitrust
We represent companies facing federal and state antitrust investigations and litigations and provide pragmatic and strategic counseling to get transactions cleared and investigations closed quickly by antitrust enforcers. We help healthcare companies complete mergers, joint ventures, provider-network collaborations and other strategic initiatives while reducing antitrust exposure—structuring deals, managing HSR filing obligations and navigating clients through the antitrust review process, including the evolving landscape of state antitrust enforcement regimes.
Healthcare Private Equity
With unparalleled experience in healthcare, we guide private equity funds and their portfolio companies through transformative investments, strategic acquisitions and innovative joint ventures. Our counsel drives growth and operational excellence, enabling clients to navigate regulatory complexities and capitalize on emerging opportunities in value-based care, physician sector consolidation and cutting-edge healthcare technologies.
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Experience

Representative Matters
  • Defended an artificial intelligence software company against state Attorney General allegations under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act tied to product marketing. Achieved a first-of-its-kind resolution for artificial intelligence marketing that imposed limited compliance and audit rights, with no admission of wrongdoing and no payment—reducing risk while allowing the business to keep operating and selling. 
  • Enabled a national value-based care platform to scale physician partnerships by providing ongoing regulatory counsel on reimbursement rules, fraud and abuse compliance and accountable care organization requirements under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Advised on strategic ventures and day-to-day policy reviews to support compliant expansion from fee-for-service to value-based care.
  • Secured dismissal of the majority of claims in a putative class action following a data breach for a leading electronic medical record software provider, including all claims under seven states’ laws. The outcome reduced litigation exposure, protected business momentum, and strengthened the defense position for future privacy and security disputes. 
  • Provided privacy and data security counsel, including developing time-sensitive consent frameworks to support compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act [TCPA] and implementing practical controls as privacy and marketing requirements evolve.
  • Advised a health software developer on healthcare regulatory compliance and negotiated commercial distribution agreements for a behavioral modification software product with a national managed care organization.
  • Represented a healthcare company focused on remote patient monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) on regulatory compliance related to developing a joint venture structure and supporting substantial expansion of operations into multiple states.
  • Represented a healthcare technology company in employment litigation brought by a former senior human resources executive following a reorganization, alleging age discrimination and retaliation. Achieved partial summary judgment and negotiated a favorable settlement that significantly reduced the initial multimillion‑dollar demand.
  • Developed and assisted with comprehensive data privacy and security compliance programs, including policy drafting, implementation, and ongoing training. 
  • Advised multiple health systems, providers, and other HIPAA regulated companies on use of tracking technologies on websites including assessments, support on remediation, and defense in civil litigation and regulatory investigations. 
  • Advised an AI-powered and telehealth-enabled healthcare company focusing on untreated behavioral health and chronic conditions on all privacy and cybersecurity considerations, including GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and related state laws. 
  • Advised multiple healthcare providers on response and investigation to data breaches, including related state and federal inquiries and litigation defense. 
  • Supported launch and compliance of groundbreaking healthcare applications and AI systems, including clinical rule-based tools, diagnostic support systems, digital therapy programs, and medication adherence and care coordination apps.
  • Led joint venture, redefining AI in global healthcare and financing partnerships between Middle East and North America.