Health law is a specialized field extending from regulatory compliance to administrative inspections, and from the liability of physicians and institutions to health tourism practices, requiring technical knowledge and a command of administrative processes. The firm's experience in this field rests on the long-standing retained counsel relationships CT Legal has maintained with healthcare institutions and health tourism intermediary organizations.
The regulatory compliance of healthcare facilities and intermediary organizations forms the foundation of the services provided. This scope covers the establishment of private hospitals, polyclinics, medical centers, and physicians' offices, together with licensing, operating permits, municipal licenses, staffing quota and promotional procedures, and the structuring of corporate operations in conformity with health legislation. Application, notification, and follow-up processes before the health administration are also carried out in full.
Health tourism is one of the areas in which CT Legal works most intensively. Legal counsel is provided to healthcare facilities, intermediary organizations, and agencies on matters ranging from authorization processes to placing healthcare facility–intermediary organization relationships on a contractual footing, and from international patient service agreements to the compliance of operations with current legislation. Advertising, promotional, and marketing activities are likewise assessed within the framework of the regulations governing health tourism, and communication processes are structured on a sound legal basis.
Following inspections by the Ministry of Health and the Provincial Health Directorate, defense petitions are prepared, objections are filed against administrative fines, and where necessary actions are brought for the annulment of administrative acts.
The corporate relationships of healthcare institutions are addressed with the same coherence. Patient admission and service agreements, informed consent forms, agreements with physicians and healthcare personnel, and internal procedures are prepared. The legal course to be followed in patient complaints and in applications made through SABİM (the Ministry of Health communication center) and CİMER (the Presidential Communication Center) is likewise determined.
In liability disputes, physicians and healthcare institutions are predominantly represented, although legal services are also provided to the patient side. In claims of medical malpractice, the review of medical records, the assessment of expert reports, and the formation of a strategy grounded in concrete facts are essential.
Scope of Services
- Regulatory compliance of healthcare facilities and intermediary organizations
- Retained counsel for health tourism facilities and intermediary organizations
- Establishment and licensing procedures for healthcare facilities
- Healthcare facility–intermediary organization agreements and international patient service agreements
- Health tourism authorization certificate and operating permit processes
- Compliance with advertising, promotion, and marketing legislation in health tourism
- Municipal licenses and other administrative permit procedures
- Applications, notifications, and follow-up before the Ministry of Health and the Provincial Health Directorate
- Post-inspection defenses and objections to administrative fines
- Actions for the annulment of administrative acts
- Preparation of patient admission, service, and informed consent documents
- Agreements with physicians and healthcare personnel
- Management of patient complaints and of SABİM and CİMER applications
- Disputes arising from the liability of physicians and healthcare institutions
Our Approach
CT Legal's priority is to structure activities in the healthcare field in compliance with the legislation from the very outset. The proper establishment of licenses, permits, agreements, and corporate procedures significantly reduces the risks of inspection and dispute. For this reason a preventive approach is adopted, one that takes into account the workings of the healthcare system and medical terminology. In administrative processes and in disputes, a result-oriented method grounded in concrete facts is followed.
