Healthcare Compliance Attorney
Kate offers healthcare compliance legal services and focuses on transactional matters and compliance with federal and state healthcare regulations. Her years of experience advising clients on a wide range of healthcare matters affords her the depth of knowledge necessary to help her clients stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly changing, highly complex industry.
Kate helps her clients achieve their business objectives in a manner that complies with state and federal healthcare regulations, including federal Stark and state self-referral laws, federal and state anti-kickback laws and HIPAA and state privacy laws.
Kate’s practice as a healthcare compliance attorney has an increasingly strong focus on digital health, state corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) requirements, cash-based and concierge practices, private equity transactions and cybersecurity breaches.
She is passionate about expanding access to quality healthcare while improving efficiency. That passion translates into Kate’s work serving clients in nearly all areas of healthcare law.
Kate’s healthcare compliance clients include digital health companies, physician groups, health care start-ups, ambulatory surgical centers, private equity funds, laboratories, hospitals, large health systems, retail and compounding pharmacies, accountable care organizations (ACOs), home health agencies, hospices, nursing homes, medical device companies and businesses that provide practice management and related services to healthcare providers.
She regularly publishes articles and gives presentations across the country providing insight and analysis of health laws that impact the healthcare industry.
Representative Experience
Organized $100M private equity fund focused on equity control acquisitions
Represented health system located in 21 states in negotiation of significant population health joint venture with for-profit multi-state primary care network
Served as lead transaction counsel for buyer of 11 nursing homes in various states in a $70 Million asset purchase transaction
Served as lead transaction counsel in $25 Million asset purchase transaction for seller of privately held physician staffing company offering services through the Midwest and Florida
Represented sellers and buyers in dozens of other significant health care transactional matters
Drafted legal opinions, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with Medicare enrollment requirements, and federal and state health care fraud and abuse laws, including federal Stark and state self-referral laws; federal and state anti-kickback laws; HIPAA and state privacy laws; federal tax-exempt laws; and industry best practices
Served as lead healthcare compliance attorney in private securities offerings by ambulatory surgery centers, physician-owned hospitals and hospital co-management companies
Served as a firm, local and national resource regarding federal health care reform and physician-hospital alignment
Drafted and negotiated numerous procurement contracts for a large health system
Acted as primary healthcare compliance attorney contact for real estate leasing departments of hospitals
Organized and served as regulatory counsel for Medicare ACOs