Kristen McDermott Woodrum, a partner in BakerHostetler’s national healthcare group, focuses her practice on transactions and regulatory matters for healthcare industry clients. Kristen anticipates potential issues and provides practical counsel to clients in structuring complex healthcare deals, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other transactions and contracting arrangements. Kristen has extensive experience advising health systems and provider clients on strategic affiliations, physician alignment strategies and emerging healthcare delivery and payment models.
In representing private equity investors and their portfolio companies in financial transactions, Kristen’s understanding of healthcare policy and economics enables her to lead targeted diligence and optimize deal terms. She also provides post-deal healthcare counsel to help portfolio companies navigate complex regulatory requirements.
Drawing on her background in the behavioral health field and broad legal experience, Kristen also advises a range of healthcare clients on day-to-day operational and compliance matters, including Medicare/Medicaid requirements and reimbursement, licensure and accreditation, HIPAA and data sharing, telemedicine, third-party payor issues, federal and state fraud and abuse laws, such as the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, and other laws impacting healthcare transactions and operations, including fee-splitting and corporate practice of medicine laws.