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Joan B. Killgore maintains a general transactional and regulatory health law practice, focusing on the representation of academic medical centers, hospitals, physicians, long term care facilities, ancillary medical service providers and other health care clients. With her background as a registered nurse and an adjunct professor for the Center for Health Care Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law, which has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as being the #1 health law program in the nation for eight years in a row, Ms. Killgore brings specialized clinical and technical experience to her health law practice.

Ms. Killgore regularly assists health care clients with regulatory, operational and transactional matters, including contract negotiation, Anti-Kickback and Stark Law compliance analyses and compliance audits. On a daily basis she handles a wide array of issues affecting health care clients including, but not limited to, those involving Stark Law compliance, medical staff, EMTALA, HIPAA privacy, third party payor reimbursement, and certificate of need and state licensure.

A new CMS manual change which will significantly affect "consignment closet" or "stock and bill" arrangements between physicians and non-physician practitioners and DMEPOS suppliers. These changes are usually made by regulation and provide the practitioners with notice of the impending change. However, this change could require significant restructuring of existing arrangements and has been adopted by manual change with an effective date of September 8, 2009.

September 18, 2012	Best Lawyers - Lawyers of the Year 2013
July 13, 2012	Commerce Magazine Features Health Care Attorney Joan Killgore
March 7, 2012	Polsinelli Shughart Attorneys Win Top Law Honors in Women's Justice Awards

February 7, 2013	Stark Law and Compensation of Blood and Marrow Transplant Physicians American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
November 8, 2012	Stark Law Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol Missouri Society of Health Care Attorneys, Annual Meeting
March 28, 2012	Healthcare Fraud & Abuse Saint Louis University School of Law Health Law Association
January 12, 2011	HITECH Update Presented to MGMA of Greater St. Louis
December 1, 2010	"Aligning Interests: Critical Legal Issues for Hospitals and Physicians," Synopsis: Pulling it All Together Kansas Hospital Association and Kansas Medical Society Webinar Series
October 15, 2010	Physician EHR Options League of Healthcare Experts, Healthcare Stimulus 101 Series
June 2010	Acquittal of Texas Nurses Who Reported Physician Standard-of-Care Concerns HCCA Compliance Today - Volume Twelve, Number Six
April 30, 2010	HITECH Updates Chicago Bar Association's "Evolving Healthcare Markets" Symposium
April 27, 2010	Payment for Quality and Efficiency: Hospital/Physician Alignment Options Healthcare Financial Management Association (Indiana Chapter) Annual Meeting
April 15, 2010	At the Intersection of the New False Claims Act and Health Reform Panel member with Jack Boese and Assistant U.S. Attorneys General Andrew Lay and Dorothy McMurtry
January 21, 2010	Aligning Interests: Critical Legal Issues for Hospitals and Physicians, Primer: Relationship Chilling Effects Kansas Hospital Association and Kansas Medical Society Webinar Series
October 2009	Controlling Waste, Fraud and Abuse After Health Care Reform Saint Louis University Health Care Symposium Panel member with Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel of the OIG and Joseph Impicciche, General Counsel for Ascension Health
August 21, 2009	New CMS Manual Change Significantly Affects DME Consignment Closet Arrangements A new CMS manual change which will significantly affect "consignment closet" or "stock and bill" arrangements between physicians and non-physician practitioners and DMEPOS suppliers. These changes are usually made by regulation and provide the practitioners with notice of the impending change. However, this change could require significant restructuring of existing arrangements and has been adopted by manual change with an effective date of September 8, 2009.
2008	Health Care Legal Issues on the Horizon Kansas Association of Hospital Attorney Annual Meeting
2008	HIPAA and Stark Law Compliance American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians' Comprehensive Review Course
Spring 2008	Teaching Health Law The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Vol. 36:1
2008	Credentialing and Peer Review Missouri Hospital Law Handbook, Missouri Society of Health Care Attorneys
2008	HIPAA and Clinical Trials Presented at the Centers for Emerging Technology (Extended Technology Entrepreneur Education Program), 2008
2008	Payor Contracting Survival Tips Presented at the MGMA St. Louis/MSMA 2008 Practice Advocacy Conference
2008	Stark Law: Changes on the HBOT Horizon Presented at the Hyperbaric Medicine & Wound Healing 2008 Regional Symposium
2008	Step Up Your Licensure – RCF to ALF Conversion Presented to Missouri Assisted Living Association, 2008
2007	Focused and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Missouri Society of Health Care Attorneys
2006	Health Law Update Presented to St. Louis Area Health Lawyers Association
2005	April 14: A HIPAA Retrospective Saint Louis Brief
2005	HIPAA Security for Attorneys Presented to St. Louis Area Health Lawyers Association
2005	How to Survive a Medicare Audit Presented to St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society
2003	HIPAA Compliance in Missouri: Understanding and Implementing the Privacy Regulations Presented to health professionals
2003	HIPAA for Senior Service Providers Presented to the St. Louis Response Team
2002	Attorneys as HIPAA Business Associates Presented to St. Louis Area Health Lawyers Association
2002	Health Law in Missouri: The Legal Implications of Health Care Delivery Systems and Managed Care Presented to health professionals
2002	HIPAA Update for Practicing Physicians Presented to health professionals
2002	HIPAA: Compliance, Implementation and the Latest Developments Presented to health professionals
1999	Comment: Surgery with a Meat Cleaver: The Criminal Indictment of Health Care Attorneys in United States v. Anderson

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