Health Care Areas

The firm's members have experience representing many health care provider types in such matters as:

• Medical liability defense
• Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse
• Internal investigations
• Anti-kickback and Stark Law
• Corporate Compliance Programs
• Risk Management and Patient Safety
• Responding to Government Investigations and Inquiries
• Controlled Substance Diversion
• Long Term Care
• Abuse and Neglect Investigations
• Board of Directors and Health Care Executive training
• HIPAA privacy and security

• Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement
• Medicare and Medicaid terminations and appeals
• EMTALA
• False Claims Act and billing investigations
• Certificates of Need (CON)
• Research, clinical trials and Institutional Review Board (IRB) matters
• Physician recruitment
• Licensure/Certification issues involving physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and physician assistants
• Kentucky provider licensing
• Medical staff relationships
• Emergency preparedness
• Health policy development

Mediation Services – Jeff Barnett is a trained mediator capable of mediating all types of civil matters. During both his private practice and tenure at the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, he facilitated the resolution of numerous disputes involving health care and regulatory matters. He is a frequent lecturer at continuing education seminars for health care and legal professionals regarding mediation and other alternative dispute resolution issues.