Polsinelli

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Phone: 303.583.8202
Fax: 720.228.2283

Ann C. McCullough

Shareholder
Ann McCullough is a shareholder in Polsinelli's Health Care practice group.  Ms. McCullough's  extensive experience includes the representation of hospitals, physician group practices, ambulatory surgery centers and health care networks in a broad variety of operational, regulatory and litigation matters.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Colorado Bar Association
    • Health Law Section
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • Health Care Compliance Association
  • Healthcare Financial Management Association
  • Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation, Leadership Denver 2012

Distinctions

  • Named Best Lawyers "Denver Health Care Law Lawyer of the Year" for 2012
  • Colorado Law Week Barrister's Best for Health Care Law, 2011
  • Irish Voice, Top 100 Irish Lawyers, 2011, 2012
  • Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009-2013, Health Care Law
  • Super Lawyers, Health Care, 2006–2012
  • Outstanding Hospital Lawyer, Nightingale's Healthcare News, 2008
  • Who's Who in Health Care, Denver Business Journal, 2003–2004
  • Selected for inclusion in Colorado Super Lawyers, 2013, Health Care

Experience

  • Drafting and negotiating a variety of health care contracts, joint ventures and acquisitions involving compliance with laws governing physician self-referrals (commonly referred to as the "Stark" law) and anti-kickback safe harbors
  • Advising health care organizations regarding medical staff credentialing, peer review, antitrust and other provider relationship matters
  • Advising nonprofit tax-exempt health care organizations regarding IRS constraints on joint ventures, physician recruitment, physician practice acquisitions, physician compensation and other private inurement and intermediate sanctions matters
  • Advising and representing hospitals and their medical staffs in anti-patient dumping matters, known as "EMTALA"
  • Advising health care organizations, employers and other entities concerning privacy of health information, including the federal privacy law known as "HIPAA"
  • Development and operation of integrated specialty and multi-specialty provider networks, including antitrust counseling
  • Advising health care facilities and individual providers on licensure matters
  • Preparing corporate governance documents, policies and procedures for the implementation and ongoing operation of health care organizations
  • Advising health care entities on regulatory compliance activities, including policy development, auditing, and internal investigations
  • Advising health care providers on reimbursement matters, including Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, managed care contracting and compensation strategies
  • Advising health care providers on legal issues concerning informed consent, refusal of treatment, right to die, patient confidentiality and other patient care related matters

Publications & Presentations

January 8, 2013
2012
COPIC Risk Management and Patient Safety Forum
2012
COPIC Risk Management and Patient Safety Forum
2012
Colorado Hospital Association 2012
2012
Rural Hospital Conference
2012
Nonprofit Boards of Directors
January 20, 2012
2011
Health Care Compliance Association
2011
2010
Integrated Delivery Round Table
2010
How to Avoid Key Pitfalls on the Path to Integration—an IDS Boot Camp
2010
Colorado Hospital Association Health Care Regulatory Update