Healthcare Law

The Firm has many years of experience in providing services to industries in the Healthcare Sector. Clients include entities in the healthcare sector, medical specialties laboratories, clinical analysis laboratories, service providers for the elderly, dental clinics, companies supplying inputs for the healthcare sector, labor risk insurance companies, occupational health companies, medical professionals and other related organizations and individuals.
For many decades, our Firm has been working as legal advisor of COOPERALA Argentine Chamber of Pharmaceutical Laboratories, a recognized institution dedicated to the defense of the Sector’s interests.
As such, the Firm has participated in numerous negotiations with the public and private sectors. It has also actively participated in the negotiation of the collective bargaining agreements of the activity – Health (CCT No. 42/89) and Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives (CCT No. 119/75).

Our services in the area

  • Specific advice on labor, civil and commercial matters connected with the industry’s reality.
  • Individual and collective negotiation of labor disputes.
  • Negotiation of agreements with health insurance companies and prepaid health insurance companies.
  • Business compliance related to the pharmaceutical sector.
  • Filings before the ANMAT, the INAME, the Superintendence of Health Services, the Superintendence of Labor Risks and other public entities related to the sector.
  • Medical malpractice and other liability situations arising from medical and pharmaceutical practice.
  • Medical records management and confidentiality of health information.

Participations and advisory services

Its professionals have also participated for more than two decades as legal advisors, or even as technical negotiators, of the agreements between INSSJyP-PAMI, IOMA, and other provincial health insurance companies, and the Pharmaceutical Industry.

The Firm participated in the development and creation of the Pharmaceutical Industrial Park of the City of Buenos Aires. This highly complex project has achieved the development of an enormous 14 hectares of land, located in the southern area of the City of Buenos Aires. The ambitious plan includes the construction of state-of-the-art plants, some of them already completed, updated to comply with the latest GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) and GEP (Good Environment Practices).

Its ambitious goal is to increase the operational capacity of its members by several times the existing one. It also involves the coordination of actions and sub-projects by a large number of institutions and organizations in the governmental sector, the scientific and technological sector, as well as companies in the pharmaceutical sector in the Metropolitan Area, totaling about a hundred.