H. Kennedy Hudner
Mr. Hudner is the Chair of the Health Care Group at Murtha Cullina. He provides legal advice to hospital and physician clients in the areas of Medicare billing assignment issues, Fraud and Abuse (Stark II anti-referral and anti-kickback), and HIPAA medical records privacy compliance matters. He also represents hospitals and physicians with regard to managed care contracting issues and payment disputes, and in Certificate of Need applications before the Office of Health Care Access. He has extensive experience in the analysis, negotiating and drafting of a wide variety of health care-related contracts. These include documents required for physician hospital organizations, independent practice associations, management service organizations, medical staff bylaw documents, radiology service agreements, laboratory service agreements, and physician provider agreements, both with IPAs and with payors (fixed fee, risk sharing and capitated). Mr. Hudner also represents physicians and hospitals in their dealings with regulatory agencies such as the Department of Public Health, the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. His health care litigation experience includes representation of hospitals in proceedings before the Office of Health Care Access, medical staff credentialing disputes and health care-related antitrust litigation.
Mr. Hudner is Special Health Care Counsel to the Connecticut Medical Insurance Company. He has lectured on Stark II, Fraud and Abuse, HIPAA privacy and Medicare compliance issues, as well as antitrust, contract and physician integration issues to the Stamford Medical Society, Danbury Medical Society, Fairfield County Medical Association, Connecticut Ophthalmology Managers Association, Connecticut Medical Group Managers Association, the Connecticut Society of Eye Physicians, the Hartford and New Haven County Medical Associations, the Connecticut Society of Dermatologists and the Massachusetts Bar Association.
