Partner
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP
Nashville, TN
(615) 850-8722
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Kim Harvey Looney is a partner at Waller Lansden. Ms. Looney is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for her extensive experience in healthcare law and she has been honored in the Nashville Business Journal's Best of the Bar Listing since 2005. Ms. Looney provides counsel to hospitals, physician groups, and outpatient services providers on day-to-day operational issues related to recruitment and employment and maintaining ongoing compliance with Stark and anti-kickback regulations. She also assists hospitals and physicians with medical staff issues. Ms. Looney works with healthcare providers on Medicare and Medicaid (TennCare) enrollment and reimbursement issues, and she provides counsel on fraud and abuse regulations. Her experience with healthcare regulatory matters also includes EMTALA.
In addition, Ms. Looney advises clients on healthcare regulatory issues pertaining to mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. She recently provided counsel on the regulatory aspects of the acquisition of a large institutional pharmacy by a leading private equity firm. Her transactional experience also includes the representation of a physician group in a joint venture with a not-for-profit hospital and the merger of three radiology groups.
Ms. Looney assists physician groups, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, nursing homes and assisted living facilities, continuing care retirement communities, home health agencies, and other provider facilities in operational, licensing, and regulatory issues. She has extensive experience preparing certificate of need (CON) applications and representing clients in CON administrative hearings. She successfully represented clients in CON proceedings which resulted in the approval of the first 3-Tesla MRI Scanner and the first Stand-Up MRI Scanner in Middle Tennessee.
Prior to law school, Ms. Looney worked as a healthcare consultant for Research and Planning Consultants in Austin, Texas, where she conducted feasibility studies and long-range plans for a variety of healthcare providers. Previously, she worked for Electronic Data Systems in Dallas, Texas, as a professional relations representative, responsible for education and assistance in claims processing to healthcare providers who participated in the Medicaid program.
Prior to joining Waller Lansden, she served as the co-chair of the healthcare practice group at Adams & Reese/Stokes Bartholomew located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Education
- B.S., University of Tennessee, 1980
- J.D., Vanderbilt University, 1989
Clerkships and Previous Affiliations
- Co-chair, healthcare practice at Adams & Reese/Stokes Bartholomew, Nashville, Tennessee
- Healthcare consultant, Research and Planning Consultants, Austin, Texas
- Professional relations representative, Electronic Data Systems, Dallas, Texas
Professional Activities
- Member, Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations
- Member, American Health Lawyers Association
- Vice Chair, Physician Organizations Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association
- Fellow, Nashville Bar Foundation
- Member, Inaugural Class of Leadership Law, Tennessee Bar Association
- Former Chair, Health Law Section of the Nashville Bar Association
- Member, Lawyers' Association for Women
Civic and Other Activities
- Co-chair, Heart Gala for the American Heart Association; member, Heart Gala Board of Directors
- Co-chair, Pizzazz, fundraiser for Franklin Road Academy
- Co-chair, Opera Ball and La Bella Notte for the Nashville Opera
- Co-chair, Bal d'Hiver, the oldest charity ball in Nashville for the benefit of Family and Children's Service, CASA and the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation
- Member, Board of Directors for Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation
- Co-chair, Paddock Club for Steeplechase, benefiting Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
Industry Experience
- Hospitals and hospital systems
- Physicians and physician groups
- Outpatient services providers
- Nursing homes and assisted living facilities
- Continuing care and retirement communities
- Home health agencies