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Becerra, Case No. 22-3578 (D.D.C. 2024).{{ FIELD }}Regularly provides day-to-day counseling to more than a dozen major health systems in the establishment and operation of large outpatient provider-based facilities and rural health clinics. Issues involved include the structuring of complex management agreements, joint ventures, 340B considerations, service line collaborations, and hospital-physician relationships.{{ FIELD }}Successfully represented a Medicaid managed care organization in multiple False Claims Act investigations by local U.S. Attorneys' Offices resulting in declinations.{{ FIELD }}Recovered millions of dollars in additional cost reimbursement for an organ procurement organization's clinical laboratory activities.{{ FIELD }}Chris Kenny is a partner in our Healthcare practice and specializes in providing strategic payment and compliance advice to hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and other organizations participating in Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurance plans.  For the past nine years, Chris has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading healthcare lawyer and in 2020 was named a Top Attorney Under 40 by Law 360.\nWith in-depth knowledge of payment systems and regulations, Chris regularly advises in-house lawyers and C-suite executives on the payment implications of major business decisions including facility construction/acquisition, medical staff relations, the operation and expansion of graduate medical education and allied health training programs, organ acquisition program management, participation in the 340B Drug Pricing Program, and telehealth expansion.  \nApplying his regulatory and reimbursement experience, Chris represents hospitals in Medicare payment litigation and before Congress and the administrative branch, as well as in False Claims Act investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice.\nHe strives to provide creative, proactive advice in an ever-changing healthcare regulatory environment, and to vigorously defend his clients’ positions in payment disputes and government investigations.\nA member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and the American Health Lawyers Association, Chris regularly speaks and writes on reimbursement and compliance issues. He is the co-editor of the Reimbursement Advisor, the leading national healthcare reimbursement publication, and serves as co-editor of our firm’s award-winning Health Headlines, a weekly newsletter summarizing healthcare law and policy developments.\nADMITTED TO PRACTICE IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND MARYLAND; NOT ADMITTED TO PRACTICE IN FLORIDA Christopher P Kenny Partner 2020 Top Attorneys Under 40 - Healthcare Law360 Ranked in Chambers USA for Healthcare 2017-2021 Chambers USA Named a Rising Star in Healthcare SUPER LAWYERS, 2018 Named a Rising Star in Healthcare Super Lawyers, 2017 Northwestern University Northwestern Pritzker School of Law George Washington University George Washington University Law School U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia Maryland American Health Lawyers Association Healthcare Financial Management Association Represented the Florida Hospital Association and 12 of its members in a precedent-setting challenge to CMS's exclusion of section 1115 waiver days from the Medicare DSH payment adjustment, resulting in a multi-million dollar victory. See Bethesda Health v. Azar, 980 F.3d 121 (D.C. Cir. 2020). Mr. Kenny is currently pursuing the same issue on behalf of dozens more hospitals in Florida, Texas, California, Tennessee and elsewhere, with total amounts in controversy worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Represented 34 hospitals in overturning CMS's unlawful policy understating the so-called \"rural floor,\" generating hundreds of millions of dollars in additional wage-related payments for providers in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, and elsewhere. Citrus HMA v. Azar, Case No. 20-00707, 2022 WL 1062990 (D.D.C. 2022). Successfully represented five major health systems in overturning CMS's disallowance of millions of dollars in financial support for the hospitals' nursing and other training programs. The court noted \"the hosptials are right, and it is not even close.\" Mercy Health-St. Vincent Medical Center v. Becerra, Case No. 22-3578 (D.D.C. 2024). Regularly provides day-to-day counseling to more than a dozen major health systems in the establishment and operation of large outpatient provider-based facilities and rural health clinics. Issues involved include the structuring of complex management agreements, joint ventures, 340B considerations, service line collaborations, and hospital-physician relationships. Successfully represented a Medicaid managed care organization in multiple False Claims Act investigations by local U.S. Attorneys' Offices resulting in declinations. 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Partner Named a Rising Star Super Lawyers, 2020-2023 Touro College  Fordham University Fordham University School of Law Florida New Jersey New York New York City Bar Association UJA Young Leadership Committee Law Clerk, Honorable Henry B. Pitman, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Representing Bath Club Entertainment and developer R. Donahue Peebles in actions against members of a neighboring condominium association and others “determined to interfere with the successful management of the historic Bath Club on Miami Beach.” Represented private-equity magnate David Storper in several actions against Wilbur Ross and WL Ross \u0026amp; Co. involving breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duties related to WL Ross’s flagship private equity funds. Represented AIB Group in an action against its prime broker, related to a five-year, $700 million foreign-exchange fraud. 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