─ Practice Areas
Counsel built around the situations healthcare actually faces.
Eight focused areas, each described by the problem you bring rather than the statute it lives in. Every matter is handled by one nurse-attorney — fluent in the clinical record and the legal one alike.
Hospital Operations & Regulatory Compliance
Keeping facilities and professionals on the right side of DOH, PhilHealth, PRC, FDA, and LGU requirements — and defending them when an audit turns adversarial.
How we help
- Facility licensing, permits, and renewals
- Accreditation readiness and review
- Policy, SOP, and operations advisory
- Regulatory audit defense — PhilHealth, DOH, FDA
- Recoupment, refund, and accreditation disputes
- UHC Act and PhilHealth circular compliance
Medico-Legal, Risk & Crisis Management
Turning an adverse event, a threatened claim, or a public incident into a defensible position — legally and reputationally.
How we help
- Incident review and root-cause documentation
- Responses to demand letters and complaints
- Negligence and corporate-liability assessment
- Litigation and expert-witness support
- Risk management and crisis communications
- Reputation management for nationwide incidents
Labor & Employment
Managing the workforce that delivers care — from CBAs to the employment arrangements unique to healthcare — and the disputes that follow.
How we help
- All labor and employment matters, including CBAs
- Doctor-consultant engagements and status
- Medical residents, interns, and clerks
- Nursing and allied-health interns
- Discipline, NLRC disputes, and separation
- Seafarer disability claims
Public-Sector Practice: Procurement, Bidding & Civil Service
The procurement, bidding, and civil-service rules that govern government hospitals and the people who run them.
How we help
- Government procurement and bidding compliance
- Bid documents, terms of reference, and protests
- Civil-service matters and RRACCS cases
- Defense of government healthcare employees
- COA audit findings and responses
- Public-sector contracts and issuances
Corporate, Investment & Market Entry
Helping investors, enterprises, and mission-driven organizations establish and run a healthcare presence in the Philippines.
How we help
- FDI and domestic investments in healthcare
- Local presence and agency licensing
- Non-profit and NGO formation
- Accredited donee-institution status
- Corporate-secretary and director-nominee services
- Corporate governance and housekeeping
Contracts & Clinical Trials
The agreements a healthcare enterprise runs on — including the research contracts that need a clinician's eye.
How we help
- Facility, HMO, vendor, and supplier agreements
- Clinical trial and research agreements
- Sponsor, CRO, and site arrangements
- Promissory notes, pledges, and security
- Collaboration and service agreements
- Letters of intent and transactions
Data Privacy & Medical Records
Holding, sharing, and releasing health information lawfully under the Data Privacy Act — with frameworks that survive a court order and an NPC inquiry alike.
How we help
- Medical-records access and release protocols
- Records classification frameworks
- NPC compliance and registration
- Breach assessment and response
- Privacy terms in HMO and vendor contracts
- Consent and patient-rights documentation
Legislative Advocacy & Policy Reform
Shaping the rules your sector operates under — with counsel that understands both the clinic and the statute book.
How we help
- Position papers and memoranda
- Proposed legislation and amendments
- Comments on issuances and IRRs
- Regulatory and policy analysis
- Stakeholder and committee engagement
- Advocacy strategy for healthcare reform
─ Across every area
Ongoing counsel, on retainer.
Many institutions and professionals keep Roba Law on call — for the day-to-day questions, the second opinions, and the matters that can't wait for a new engagement.
Not sure where your matter fits?
Many healthcare problems sit between categories. Bring the situation — we'll find the right footing.