Fractional Legal Counsel for

Healthcare Agencies


Your Legal Team - on Call,

without the overhead


Healthcare leaders face shifting rules, staffing challenges, governmental audits, and contracting demands. With Fractional Legal Counsel, your company gains a flexible legal partner who works closely with your company's leadership - on a retainer you can scale. We learn your workflows, spot risk early, and keep decisions, policies, and contracts aligned as your business grows. All without demanding a six-figure salary and luxury benefits.


Unlike project-only outside firms, your fractional legal counsel learns your healthcare company's operations, culture, and risk profile - then stays engaged to keep policies, agreements, and decisions aligned with your company values.  

We Serve


Home health, behavioral health, clinics, and other community-based healthcare organizations that desire PeaceFul Legal Counsel™ anchored in healthcare reality - not just statutes. Our clinical and Medicaid compliance background helps us translate rules into practical workflows your team can execute and appreciate.



We Serve


Home health, behavioral health, clinics, and other community-based healthcare organizations that desire PeaceFul Legal Counsel™ anchored in healthcare reality - not just statutes. Our clinical and Medicaid compliance background helps us translate rules into practical workflows your team can execute and appreciate.







Substantive Healthcare Issues We Service:

Compliance & Governance

  • HIPAA Privacy / Security policies, BAAs, breach response
  • OIG compliance
  • Medicaid / managed care fraud, waste, abuse monitoring and committee cadence


Contracts

  • Patient service agreements
  • Vendor MSAs
  • Payor agreements
  • Indemnities, PHI clauses, kickback/Stark-safe structures

Employment & Labor

  • Wage / hour compliance
  • Independent contractor analysis
  • Employer recordkeeping
  • Onboarding & training compliance

Risk & Crisis

  • Investigations and corrective actions
  • Audit representation
  • Planning and response
  • Ethical analysis
  • Conflict management & resolution

  Board & Leadership Engagement

  • Meeting attendance to discuss issues and company growth
  • Leadership briefings

Hairston Law's Fractional Legal Counsel services are provided through two monthly evergreen retainer tiers so healthcare leaders can choose the level of ongoing support that best fits their agency's pace and priorities. Each tier delivers proactive compliance guidance, contract support, and conflict-aware counsel tailored to your healthcare culture - so you can focus on care, not chaos.

Evergreen Retainer Tiers

Essential Counsel

$3,000.00/monthly


Foundational legal partnership. Best for: growing healthcare organizations that need consistent legal guidance & under $500,000 in revenues


Attorney Access & Collaboration:


  • Priority access to counsel via secure client portal
  • Response expectations: 
  • Urgent matters = within 4 business hours
  • Standard matters = within 24 business hours
  • Routine telephone calls, emails, texts, and portal messagings are not separately billed 


Common Matters Supported at this Tier:


  • Monthly 60 min. strategic planning meetings
  • video-conferencing
  • Targeted legal research and guidance memoranda
  • billed against retainer
  • Contract review and risk assessment
  • billed against retainer
  • Mediation representation
  • billed against retainer
  • expenses tracked separately
  • Quarterly compliance audit
  • billed against retainer
  • Coordination with referral counsel when needed
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Strategic Counsel

$5,000.00/monthly


Premier legal partnership. Best for: established healthcare organizations requiring deeper strategic involvement, proactive risk management, and leadership-level legal support & over $500,000 in revenues


Expanded Capacity & Strategic Engagement:


  • Enhanced attorney availability for ongoing strategy and decision support
  • Routine communications are not separately billed
  • Unlimited strategy meetings and leadership calls
  • substantive work billed against retainer


Advanced Matters Supported at this Tier:



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*  All subscription members receive discounted rates on External Regulatory Audits and Litigation services. Contact us for more detail.


Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the LORD rather than for people.

                                                                                                                                                          ~ Colossians 3:23 (NLT)