Kathryn Moore advises healthcare clients on a broad range of transactional, regulatory, and operational matters, with a particular focus on complex healthcare mergers and acquisitions. She represents national hospital and ambulatory surgery center companies, as well as a wide spectrum of healthcare providers and operators, including home health providers, physician practices, and office-based laboratories. Kathryn works closely with clients throughout the full lifecycle of a transaction, guiding them through regulatory diligence, deal execution, and post-closing compliance.

In addition to her transactional practice, she counsels healthcare organizations on navigating complex state and federal regulatory frameworks governing licensure, certification, corporate practice of medicine issues, fee-splitting, and reimbursement. She has considerable experience helping clients address healthcare fraud and abuse risks, frequently advising on state and federal anti-kickback rules and self-referral laws.

Kathryn also advises healthcare clients on licensure and enrollment matters across a variety of contexts. She assists healthcare providers pursuing de novo facility development, guiding them through regulatory approvals and enrollment processes necessary to launch new healthcare operations. She counsels clients responding to adverse events or sanctions that threaten their licensure status or participation in federal healthcare programs. Moreover, Kathryn handles the licensure and enrollment workstreams that arise in connection with healthcare transactions.

Kathryn’s practice includes:

• Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions – Advising healthcare organizations on mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, with an emphasis on regulatory diligence, licensure, and structuring considerations unique to healthcare deals.
• Regulatory Compliance & Licensing – Counseling clients on state and federal healthcare regulatory requirements, including facility licensure, certificate of need matters, and Medicare and Medicaid enrollment and certification.
• Healthcare Fraud & Abuse – Assisting clients with compliance and risk analysis under federal and state anti-kickback and self-referral laws, corporate practice of medicine restrictions, and fee-splitting prohibitions.
• Provider Operations & Structuring – Advising hospitals, surgery centers, physician practices, and other providers on operational and structural issues impacting regulatory compliance and long-term strategy.

Prior to joining Bass, Berry & Sims, Kathryn was a partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. Kathryn earned a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law and received her B.A. in English from the University of Mississippi where she was awarded the Taylor Medal, the university’s highest academic honor.