DSR Health Law

DSR Health Law is a California-based law firm exclusively focused on representing health plans, health insurers, and healthcare payors. The firm represents more than 20 full-service health care plans and specialty plans throughout California, including more than half of the state's Medi-Cal managed care plans.

The firm's practice areas encompass regulatory compliance, litigation defense, payor-provider contract disputes, and complex government regulatory matters. Their attorneys handle medical necessity determinations, authorization issues, grievances and appeals processes, and claims disputes. Several team members bring prior experience from the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), providing insider regulatory perspective.

DSR Health Law maintains a team of 13 legal professionals including shareholders, partners, senior counsel, and associates. The firm has established a niche practice defending health plans against provider claims and navigating California's complex managed care regulatory environment.

Organizations should consider DSR Health Law when they need attorneys who understand California's managed care landscape from both the plan and regulatory perspectives. The firm's former DHCS attorneys provide valuable insight into state agency thinking and enforcement priorities.

Clients can expect a specialized practice model focused exclusively on payor-side representation, with deep experience in the specific disputes and regulatory challenges facing California health plans, particularly in the Medi-Cal managed care space.

DSR Health Law operates exclusively within the healthcare sector, focusing specifically on the legal needs of health plans and health insurers. The firm specializes in managed care regulatory compliance, particularly for California's Medi-Cal program, and handles payor-specific legal challenges including third party liability, quality assurance fees, supplemental payments, and managed care plan oversight.

Their healthcare focus extends to defending plans in payor-provider disputes involving medical necessity, authorization processes, claims payment issues, and grievances and appeals. The firm's attorneys maintain memberships in the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys and American Health Law Association's Payers, Plans, and Managed Care Practice Group.

California-based health plans, managed care organizations, and Medi-Cal plans requiring specialized legal counsel for regulatory compliance, litigation defense, contract disputes with providers, or DHCS regulatory matters. Organizations that value attorneys with prior state regulatory agency experience and deep understanding of California's managed care environment.