Healthcare

Healthcare is one of Mendes's most consistent sectors. In Brazil, and likewise in the country's north, the sector operates through both the public system and private health insurance, requiring participants to master highly specific regulatory, contractual, tax and labor rules.

The firm advises medical cooperatives, specialist groups, hospitals, clinics and health plan operators. Experience includes negotiating and collecting medical fees from municipal and state health departments, contracts with health plan operators, tax regimes specific to cooperatives and medical companies, corporate stabilization at clinics, employment relations in healthcare facilities and regulatory matters before the National Supplementary Health Agency (ANS) and health surveillance authorities.