Kathleen "Kitty" Juniper's practice focuses on delivering strategic and practical legal advice to primarily health care-related entities. Kitty brings a comprehensive approach to clients' matters with experience in private practice, business, government, and government relations. The issues that Kitty typically handles with her clients relate to:

Telehealth * Knox-Keene health plan regulation (specialty, provider-based, discount)  *  eHealth medical devices * retail health * corporate practice of medicine restrictions * government approvals  *  ancillary services (optical, dental, allied health providers) * advertising and marketing * legislative advocacy * physician issues *

Typical engagements include:

• Structuring telehealth arrangements for national rollouts - provider licensing and contracting, management services agreements, electronic platform licensing, and compliance with corporate practice of medicine restrictions.
• Knox-Keene license applications (provider-based, specialty, and discount).
• Developing compliant business models for highly regulated health care entities and new products.
• Reviewing advertising copy and marketing-related issues for compliance with federal and state laws.
• Drafting management services contracts and structuring arrangements.
• Assisting health care entities with regulatory compliance at the agency, attorney-general, and operational levels.
• Working with stakeholders and individual companies to craft legislative solutions.

Bar Admissions

• California
• Ohio (inactive)

Education

• Washington College of Law at American University, J.D.
• University of Cincinnati, B.A., magna cum laude

• Represented national company (and subsidiary) in developing business models for various business lines, negotiation of compliant regulatory structures to Attorney General's office, and drafting and negotiating legislation with government/industry workgroup to resolve legal issues resulting from new case law.
• Led legal team and obtained limited Knox-Keene license for large hospital-based health care system expeditiously.
• Analyzed state regulatory and telehealth laws and provided business options for proper advertising and national distribution of medical devices to consumers.
• Undertook due diligence and legal advice to investment funds with regard to regulatory issues and compliance of target retail health companies and health plan.
• Provided strategic advice and legal structuring of corporate entities facing corporate medicine and commercial practice restrictions.

• Preeminent AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell
• "Best of San Diego" Health Care Attorney
• Past Member of California Advisory Board on Health Care Service Plans
• Wiley W. Manual Award for Pro Bono Legal Services
• Belva Lockwood Award, Lawyers Club of San Diego
• Superior Performance Award, Federal Trade Commission

• Risk Taking in the Provider World: Is a Knox-Keene Plan a Good Strategic Move For You?
• Keeping up with Provider Payment Models: The Times, They are A-Changing
• The Role of Professional Licensing Boards in Excluding New Products and Services from the Market: Will State Immunity Continue to Shield Anti-Competitive Behavior?
• CMS Initiative to Transform Clinical Practice
• Risk-Sharing and Value-Based Approaches to Health Benefits
• Retail Health Care: Rite-Aid, Gift Cards and the False Claims Act
• The Business of Health Care: Navigating the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine
• Hell Freezes Over in California: Private Optometry and Optical Companies Compromise
• Delivering Health Care Services to Consumers through eHealth Devices: The Role of State Professional Practice Laws
• State Law Obstacles to the National Distribution of eHealth Medical Devices Directly to Consumers
• Corporate Practice of Medicine: A Fifty State Survey
• Testimony of Kathleen Juniper to Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development
• The DMHC's Final Guidance on the General Licensure Regulation ("Restricted Health Plans") The Lull Before the Storm
• Buchalter Client Alert COVID-19: Hastening Telehealth Provision of Medical Services Across State Lines
• Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at American Health Lawyers Association
• Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
• Kathleen Juniper, Panelist at BIOCOM Reimbursement Seminar
• Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at BIOCOM Reimbursement Committee
• Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at San Diego County Bar Association
• Kathleen Juniper, Panelist at the Healthcare Financial Management Association
• Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at San Diego County Bar Association
• Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at the American Health Lawyers Association Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute
• Kathleen Juniper, Panelist at the 2015 Specialty Health Summit
• Kitty Juniper, Speaker at Orange County Bar Association
• Kitty Juniper, Speaker at Hearing on the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine
• Kathleen Juniper, Moderator at the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys
• Managed Care Update: Increasing Revenues in a Risk-Based World
• Webinar: Emerging Trends for Non-Profit and Religious Health Care Organizations
• Test