Health Care Attorneys for Medicare, Medicaid and Private Insurance Providers

Kennedy Attorneys & Counselors at Law is a Dallas-based health law firm devoted to the representation of health care providers and practitioners participating in federal and state health care programs. We do our best to keep clients out of trouble in the heavily regulated health care industry. While we provide a wide array of legal services, much of the work we do for our clients falls into four broad categories: provider reimbursement and payment issues; compliance with health standards and quality enforcement in survey and certification, including professional licensing; issues related to fraud and abuse sanctions; and health care business matters such as contracts, transactions, and employment law.

We represent our clients in state and federal court, before administrative tribunals and forums, and in appeals. We have a national practice and assist clients (and their local counsel) nationwide.

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Blog and News

Governor’s Report to Open Texas
Governor Greg Abbott's report on opening the State of Texas is attached in its entirety. OpenTexas-Report
Joanna Martin Accepts In-House Counsel Position
We are sad to announce that Joanna Martin will be leaving our firm. She has decided to accept an in-house counsel position. We appreciate the [...]
Home Health and Coronavirus Update
With the instruction to stay home for older Americans who are at greatest risk from COVID-19 issued through presidential updates, CDC, NIH, experts, home health [...]
Mark Kennedy Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America
We are proud to announce that our very own Mark Kennedy has been chosen by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in [...]
HHS Can’t Recoup Payments from Adams EMS
Read health care law and business reporter Matt Phifer's story on one of our preliminary injunction cases in the Southern District of Texas. The injunction [...]
How Will Medicare & Medicaid Handle Telemedicine?
Telemedicine is the wave of the future for health care. The use of technology for health concerns has risen in the past five years and [...]
Avoiding Stark Law Violations and Penalties
Under Stark law, doctors are prevented from making self-referrals. More precisely, physicians are restricted from referring Medicare and Medicaid patients to a DHS (designated health [...]
Managing Credential Renewals
Health care practice administrators often receive frustrating communications from insurance companies. The last-minute requests for credentialing renewals can be especially upsetting because of the amount [...]
10 Mistakes That Can Result in Medical Malpractice
Despite the fact that most doctors and their staff use good judgement when it comes to patient care, there are thousands of medical malpractice lawsuits [...]
EHR Incentives and Certifications – Attaining Meaningful Use
In 2009, legislation authorized the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) to offer health care providers financial incentives to use certified electronic health recording technology [...]
HIPAA-Compliant Texting for Medical Professionals
Like everyone else, physicians and health-care professionals have taken to texting in a big way. Results of a recent study of health care providers revealed [...]
Situations When Physicians Will Need a Lawyer
To a lot of people, physicians and lawyers do not go together. But the truth is that physicians are more likely to need a lawyer [...]
Rewards Exception to Beneficiary Inducement CMPL
The Office of the Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently passed a regulation providing an exception to certain prohibitions [...]
Changes to FDA Regulation of Health-Related Apps
On July 27th of this year, the FDA announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, which is intended to speed up the process(es) associated with [...]
MACRA: Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Explained
In 2015, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act was passed, and by 2019, healthcare providers will begin to see its impacts on Medicare payments. [...]
Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program
Established as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) attempts to create an incentive for hospitals to cut down [...]
Health Care Business Law Webcast with Trey Scott
Register now for July 24th Health Care Business Law Video Webcast with Trey Scott The National Business Institute, an organization for continuing legal education for [...]
Revision of the Stark Law Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SDRP)
The procedure for voluntary self-disclosure of actual or potential Stark Law (federal physician self-referral law) violations has changed. As of June 1st, 2017, those providers [...]
Hospitals and Healthcare Providers at High Risk for Ransomware
Due to their high vulnerability level, healthcare providers are frequent targets for ransomware attacks. Lives depend on hospitals and healthcare personnel being able to access [...]
HIPAA and Its Effect on the Workplace
A group of regulations under the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 affects millions of individuals and entities in the United States, [...]
Medicare Hospice CAP Demands and Appeals
Medicare Hospice CAP Demands and Appeals Beginning in 1982, Medicare began offering a hospice benefit to covered individuals needing end of life palliative care. Provisions [...]
About Medicare, Medicaid, Regulatory
The United States spends about $2.6 trillion annually on health care (17.5 percent of GDP) and with the reform initiatives under the Affordable Care Act [...]
Stark Legislation
Provisions included by Congress Congress included a provision in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (OBRA 1989) which barred self-referrals for clinical laboratory services [...]