Kristen A. Murphy

Kristen Murphy focuses her practice on health care transactions, representing hospitals, health systems, physician groups, and other providers in complex strategic arrangements, including mergers and acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships. She advises clients on the regulatory and structural considerations that shape health care transactions, including compliance with the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, state fraud and abuse laws, HIPAA, and applicable licensing requirements. Kristen also counsels clients on related corporate and governance matters, including entity formation, drafting organizational documents, and board-level considerations.

In addition, Kristen drafts and negotiates a broad range of agreements for health care providers, including professional and management services agreements, employment and physician recruitment agreements, call coverage agreements, medical director agreements, and co-management and service line agreements. She works closely with clients to ensure transactions are strategically aligned, operationally effective, and compliant with federal and state regulatory requirements.

Kristen also has particular depth in telemedicine and digital health transactions, assisting clients with the development, launch, acquisition, and expansion of compliant telehealth platforms and innovative care delivery models.

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