Health Care

Advice and representation for South Carolina health care providers

Young Clement Rivers, LLP offers a wide variety of services to clients involved in the health care industry. The firm represents the largest public and private health care providers in Charleston County on various matters.

The group’s lawyers have extensive knowledge of all local, state and federal health care laws, including practical experience with health care compliance and dispute resolution.

The firm advises clients on:

  • Regulatory affairs
  • Compliance with state and federal regulations
  • Litigation
  • Procurement
  • Formation of captive insurance companies and self-insured trusts
  • Medical and hospital malpractice defense
  • Charitable immunity
  • Durable medical equipment (DME) litigation

The firm represents numerous physician groups, hospitals, long-term care facilities, and health care entities in a variety of issues involving licensing operations, and sales. It also represents physicians and other practitioners before the Board of Medical Examiners and other state agencies.

The Health Care Practice Group litigates health care related issues before regulatory boards and the South Carolina Administrative Law Division. Group lawyers have experience in government reimbursement issues and insurance regulatory matters such as interpreting federal health care regulations involving hospital beds, wheelchairs, and pressure-reducing support surfaces. The firm has extensive experience in litigating 501(c)(3) charitable immunity issues for non-profit hospitals as well as South Carolina tort claims issues for public health care entities.

Practice group attorneys

Articles and case studies

  • “How to Avoid Malpractice and the Steps of a Typical Medmal Lawsuit,” J. Rutledge Young, Jr., Joint Meeting-SC Hospital Assoc/SC Medical Association, Jan. 2003
  • “If you need a Lawyer,” J. Rutledge Young, Jr., SCMA/SCJUA Risk Management Program for New Physicians, May 16, 2003
  • “History of Charitable Immunity in South Carolina,” J. Rutledge Young, Jr., South Carolina Bar Association Seminar – Non-Profit Corporations from A to Z, March 2006

Contact Young Clement Rivers, LLP

To talk to one of Young Clement Rivers, LLP’s seasoned South Carolina advocates, call (843) 720-5492 or contact the firm online.