Kelsey Jernigan is a partner whose practice focuses on all areas of healthcare regulatory, compliance and transactional law for hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and other healthcare providers. Her scope of work concentrates on potential Stark Law and Anti-Kickback matters; hospital contracting with physicians, healthcare providers and vendors; and assisting clients with various operational matters, including medical staff and risk management issues. Kelsey regularly conducts internal reviews of hospital clients’ financial arrangements with physicians, and has assisted clients in filing disclosures under the Stark Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol. She routinely analyzes complicated Anti-Kickback and Civil Monetary Penalty matters, and has drafted and submitted multiple Advisory Opinion requests to the OIG. Kelsey has experience advising hospitals on EMTALA issues, and counseling healthcare providers through licensure issues and adverse survey citations. In addition, Kelsey also assists in all stages of affiliations and transactions between healthcare providers, ranging from due diligence, compliance and transactional matters, and preparation and submission of change of ownership filings.
