Robert McCann

Robert W. McCann is a partner in the Health Care Practice Group. Robert has practiced law in the health care field for more than 26 years, focusing on antitrust counseling, mergers and acquisitions, business transactions, capital financing and tax and Medicare compliance for hospitals, health care systems and provider-sponsored managed care organizations. His experience includes representation as general or special counsel to health care clients in more than 50 mergers and acquisitions, and in numerous federal antitrust investigations and litigation.

From 1982 to 1987, Robert was vice president and associate general counsel of the American Hospital Association, where he was responsible for the Association’s representation and advocacy activities relating to industry legal and regulatory affairs. Previously, he directed the AHA’s Division of Legislation and Regulation.

Robert has an AV Preeminent rating through Martindale-Hubbell, and is recognized as a “Top Rated Lawyer” by Martdinale-Hubbell and ALM. He has published articles on a wide range of health care-related topics, including, most recently, a review of state and federal laws applicable to health care advertising and marketing, a retrospective analysis of the government’s hospital merger enforcement policy and a perspective on revisions to the federal antitrust enforcement policy statements for the health care field. He is also the author of the capital financing chapter of a treatise on health care corporate law.