Kelsey Jernigan is a partner in the firm's Research Triangle Park office. Kelsey's practice focuses on all areas of health care regulatory, compliance and transactional law for hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and other health care providers. Her scope of work concentrates on potential Stark Law and Anti-Kickback matters; hospital contracting with physicians, health care 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 health care providers through licensure issues and adverse survey citations. In addition, Kelsey also assists in all stages of affiliations and transactions between health care providers, ranging from due diligence, compliance and transactional matters, and preparation and submission of change of ownership filings.
