With a background as a pharmacist and Associate General Counsel to a large, regional skilled nursing care organization, Kevin represents healthcare clients in a variety of litigation matters.
Kevin assists healthcare organizations in complex litigation, including reimbursement issues, audits, commercial disputes, insurance coverage matters and False Claims Act allegations. He has successfully represented clients in all phases of litigation, from inception to trial, in court and arbitration. Kevin is a valued member of the client service teams for multinational healthcare organizations and major pharmacy benefit managers, routinely working with very sophisticated clients. Kevin regularly assists the firm’s coast-to-coast Hospice & Palliative Care team on a broad range of administrative, litigation and regulatory issues related to hospice and post-acute clients.
Kevin has long been passionate about healthcare. While studying to be a pharmacist, he completed a pharmacy-law rotation at a national law firm and became fascinated by healthcare law. He went on to earn his law degree while working as practicing pharmacist. As part of his pharmacy-law practice, Kevin regularly counsels California pharmacies and pharmacists on regulatory, business, and day-to-day operational issues including audits and Board of Pharmacy inspections.
Prior to joining Husch Blackwell, Kevin worked at a boutique litigation firm in Los Angeles and later served as in-house counsel for a large long-term skilled nursing and post-acute organization where he was frequently involved in executive decision-making, contract negotiations and risk management. He describes the experience as a gamechanger for his approach as an attorney: working in-house gave him a unique understanding of the corporate world clients inhabit so that he can fully grasp their business analyses, rationale and goals. Kevin appreciates firsthand how organizations evaluate risk and how their legal needs and strategies fit in with their overall business plans.
In addition to his in-house and on-the-ground background, Kevin has built a reputation as a true problem solver. He’s known for taking a unique view of a case and finding solutions to complex problems. Clients praise his outside the box thinking.