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Provided by Kim H Looney
Kim Looney is a partner in the firm's Healthcare and FDA practice group. Kim regularly works with healthcare clients, including for-profit and nonprofit healthcare providers, academic medical centers, physician practices, post-acute providers, ambulatory surgery centers, and integrated delivery systems, on operational issues such as licensing, state matters, Medicare certification and reimbursement, reimbursement audits, contracts, corporate governance, CON applications and hearings, and recruitment and employment. She also has significant experience advising and assisting clients with regulatory issues related to structuring mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. She regularly advises clients on compliance issues related to federal and state laws (such as Stark, Anti-Kickback, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, False Claims Act, fee splitting laws, corporate practice of medicine, etc.). Other areas of expertise include government investigations, provider enrollment and credentialing, and CMS/OIG self-disclosures.
Kim is a frequent author and speaker on healthcare legal issues for the American Health Law Association and the Tennessee Bar Association, among others.
Licensed in Tennessee.
Professional Activities
Current:
Executive Committee, Health Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association
Board of Directors, Nashville Bar Association
Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation; Fellow, ABA Bar Foundation
Previous:
Member, Board of Directors, American Health Law Association; Chair, Membership, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee; Vice Chair, Physician Practice Groups Committee
Past Chair, Health Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association
Executive Committee, Past President, Tennessee Lawyer's Association for Women
Member, Inaugural Class of Leadership Law, TBA
Executive Committee - Leadership Law Program, Nashville Bar Foundation
Attorney for Justice, as recognized for pro bono efforts by the Tennessee Supreme CourtPast Chair, Health Law Section of the Nashville Bar Association
Speaker:
Speaker on various health care topics at TBA Annual Health Law Conference (18 of last 21 years)
Civic Activities
Current:
Member, Board of Directors, Nashville General Hospital Foundation
Trustee, Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation Member, Middle Tennessee Council Executive Board of Boy Scouts of America
Treasurer, Horticultural Society of Middle Tennessee
Previous Boards:
Heart Gala, Franklin Road Academy, Friends of Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Fifty Forward
Other:
Budget District Director, District VIII, Kappa Alpha Theta (2014-2020)
Advisory Board, Alpha Eta chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta (2010-2020)
Fundraisers:
Co-chaired various fundraisers to benefit organizations such as:
CASA, Family & Children's Service, Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation,
Women's Fund of Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee,
Cheekwood,
Fifty Forward,
Opera Guild,
Franklin Road Academy,
American Heart Association,
Lifeflight and Trauma Survivors Network for Vanderbilt Medical Center,
Junior League of Nashville, and
Monroe Carroll, Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
Books
Editor and Author, “Health Care and Life Sciences Transactions: Understanding the Legal Consequences of The Health Care Deal,” AHLA/Lexis Publication, 2020
Author, Representing Physicians Handbook, AHLA/Lexis Publication
Author, the ACO Handbook, AHLA/Lexis Publication
Author, Representing Hospitals and Health Systems Handbook, AHLA/Lexis Publication
Other Publications
“Hunting Telehealth Fraud Under COVID-19 Waivers and Expansion,” Pratt’s Government Contracting Law Report, December 2021
Corporate Governance Toolkit, AHLA Business Law and Governance Practice Group, 11 October 2021
"That Was Then and This is Now - How the COVID-19 Crisis Changed Telehealth Services: Are the Changes Here to Stay?," AHLA Health Law Connections, 1 September 2020
"First Reflections - A History of Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion," AHLA Health Law Connections, 1 September 2020
“Florida, Georgia Changes to Certificate of Need (CON) Laws Are Biggest in Southeast,” AHLA PG Alert, 1 August 2019
“Several Southeastern States Seek to Eliminate or Relax Certificate of Need Laws,” PG Alert, 15 March 2019
“State Health Care Fraud Law: An AHLA 50-State Survey with Summaries and Links,” Quick Reference Library, 6 September 2018
“Business Law & Governance,” PG Newsletter, Vol. 10, Issue 1, November 2017
JD, 1989, Vanderbilt University Law School; BS, 1980, University of Tennessee
Vanderbilt Law School
J.D.
University of Tennessee
B.S.
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Kim provides outstanding guidance and results.
She deals with issues big and small, and approaches them from a common-sense, practical view.
Kim provides outstanding guidance and results.
She deals with issues big and small, and approaches them from a common-sense, practical view.
2 items provided by K&L Gates
Executive Order waives certain Tennessee CON regulatory requirements
Tennessee has suspended some certificate of need requirements for hospital beds during the COVID-19 crisis.
CMS announces new survey and enforcement priorities
CMS has changed its approach to physical inspections and enforcement activities during COVID-19 crisis.
Executive Order waives certain Tennessee CON regulatory requirements
Tennessee has suspended some certificate of need requirements for hospital beds during the COVID-19 crisis.
CMS announces new survey and enforcement priorities
CMS has changed its approach to physical inspections and enforcement activities during COVID-19 crisis.