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.
