Kristin Oto Jenkins
Associate
Kristin Oto Jenkins is a health care business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Health Care Practice. Kristin counsels hospitals, health systems, physician groups, and other health care businesses and providers on state licensing and scope of practice, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and participation, federal and state fraud and abuse laws, and health privacy laws.
Prior to joining Foley, Kristin served as a judicial extern to The Honorable Nathanael Cousins of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and worked at a nationally ranked pediatric academic medical center in Los Angeles, California, as a quality coordinator in the Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Department.
Affiliations
- Member, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles (APABA)
- Member, American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)
- Member, American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
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CMS Price Transparency Push Trails State Initiatives
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Looking Past The Issue Of Price Transparency In Health Care
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CMS Proposes to Ever-So-Slightly Expand Stark Law Exceptions for Compensation Arrangements
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