Kimberly Kempton-Serra's practice includes corporate transactions, regulatory and tax analysis, leases, and employment agreements for hospitals, physicians, managed care companies and other health industry clients. She also has substantial experience in connection with the establishment and operation of ambulatory surgery centers, as well as joint ventures among health care facilities, physicians and other business entities.
Ms. Kempton-Serra was an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she taught Health Law for MSJ's.
Thirty-Eight Garfunkel Wild attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America and The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Garfunkel Wild's 11th Annual ASC and Health Care Management Virtual Symposium is dedicated to the most important business, legal, clinical, and operational issues facing the ASC and health care management community.
Many clients are asking whether the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ban has gone into effect and, if not, what the status is currently. As we reported previously, the FTC enacted a nationwide ban on most non-compete agreements, subject to certain narrow exceptions, that was anticipated to take effect on September 4, 2024. Since that time, however, multiple court challenges have been filed, testing the validity of the ban.
On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated a final rule banning most non-compete agreements, in any industry, and is set to become effective 120 days after its publication in the Federal Register (the “Final Rule”).
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently posted a new educational resource on its website about Single Audits. HHS is the largest grant-making agency in the Federal government, and OIG’s new resource is designed to help key stakeholders understand the scope of Single Audits, as well as improve the overall quality of such audits.
On October 13, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) posted Advisory Opinion 23-07, a favorable opinion regarding an employer’s proposal to pay bonuses to its employed physicians based on net profits derived from certain outpatient surgical procedures the employed physicians perform at the employer’s two planned ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).
Garfunkel Wild's 10th Annual ASC and Health Care Management Virtual Symposium is dedicated to the most important business, legal, clinical, and operational issues facing the ASC and health care management community.
In what appears to follow a multi-state trend to protect “temporary” workers, as part of the New York Budget for FY 2023-2024, a new law went into effect that requires any entity that provides temporary staff to health care entities to register with the Department of Health (DOH).
Garfunkel Wild’s Barry Cepelewicz and Kimberly Kempton-Serra will present at the Connecticut Orthopaedic Society/Massachusetts Orthopaedic Association Webinar “Is Private Equity Right For You?” on December 8, 2021 from 7-8pm.