Karen Owens

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Karen represents health care systems, hospitals, clinics, other providers and managed care organizations in matters of quality management, medical staff/network credentialing and peer review, medical staff structures, bylaws and confidentiality, as well as National Practitioner Data Bank, state professional board, and other government reporting. She also regularly assists health care providers and managed care organizations with state licensure and Medicare certification, survey compliance, EMTALA, patient consent, end-of-life, and many other regulatory matters touching clinical operations. In addition, Karen advises health care clients in peer review, antitrust, contracting, negligent credentialing, and other disputes related to provider/medical staff relationships. She has substantial experience handling contested matters before administrative bodies including hospital, surgery center and managed care peer review panels, Medicare QIOs, and many State professional boards, and when possible, resolving such matters short of hearing. Karen also regularly works with the firm’s litigators on litigation involving credentialing and peer review, patient consent, end-of-life, and other clinically related issues. Karen spends each spring monitoring state legislative issues affecting providers. In all these areas, Karen works with a wide range of providers including urban, academic, community, and rural hospitals, clinician practices, outpatient clinics, and surgery centers, as well as managed care organizations.