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Mary Beth F. Johnston  Administrative Partner (Research Triangle Park)
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Areas of Practice • Representative Experience • Professional/Civic Activities • Speaking Engagements • Bar Admissions • Education • Achievements • Additional Information

Areas of Practice

Ms. Johnston concentrates her practice exclusively in health law, representing academic medical centers, hospital systems, managed care contracting organizations, long-term care and home care providers, and a wide array of ancillary service providers. As a result of this diversified practice, her proficiency extends to federal and state regulatory compliance matters, including HIPAA and general telehealth compliance, physician self-referral law issues, provider network development and managed care, and health care operational issues, including Certificates of Need, medical staff credentialing, and provider-based entity issues. She likewise maintains an active transactional practice and continues to represent providers on tax-exempt financing matters.

Representative Experience
  • Representation of academic medical centers in multiple hospital and ancillary provider acquisitions.  
  • Representation of large public hospital systems on transactional and regulatory aspects of conversion to private, nonprofit systems.  
  • Representation of hospitals and affiliated physicians on internal and external billings compliance investigations.  
  • Representation of academic medical centers on telemedicine regulatory and reimbursement issues.  
  • Representation of hospitals and health plans on HIPAA privacy and security issues, including preparation of model documents and preemption analysis.  
  • Representation of health care providers on Certificate of Need application decisions and on other administrative matters.

Professional/Civic Activities
  • American Bar Association (Health Law Section's eHealth and Privacy Interest Group, Vice-Chair 2000-2003)
  • HIPAA Implementation Planning Task Force (North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc., 2001-2002)  
  • North Carolina Bar Association (Health Law Section Former Council Member) 
  • North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys (Past President)
  • Wake County Bar Association, Voluntary Lawyers Program, 1990 and 1994 Pro Bono Award

Speaking Engagements
  • “Medical/Legal Update,” 37th Annual Emery C. Miller Medical Symposium, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, August 2008
  •  “Legal, Ethical & Compliance Issues in Palliative Care,” The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care, December 2007
  • “Stark II and Anti-Kickback Law Update,” Health Care Compliance Association, Southeastern Division, May 2005
  • “Hot Legal Issues,” 54th Annual Meeting, North Carolina Health Information and Management Association, May 2004
  • “HIPAA Update,” American Bar Association, Health Law Section, Washington, D.C., November 2003
  • “Hot Legal Issues,” Hospital Leaders Institute, North Carolina Hospital Association, April 2003
  • “HIPAA,” CED Healthcare Entrepreneurial Roundtable, September 2002

Bar Admissions
  • Bar of North Carolina
Education
  • J.D., Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law (1983) (cum laude, Campbell Law Review, Membership Editor, Phi Kappa Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa)
  • B.A., University of North Carolina (1980)
Achievements
  • Nightingale Healthcare News' Outstanding Hospital Lawyer, 2009
  • Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, 1998-2009
  • North Carolina Super Lawyers, Health Care Law, 2006, 2008-2010 (Top 50 Women in 2008)
  • 2006 Woman Extraordinaire, Business Leader Magazine

Additional Information
Publications
  • “Hurdles to Health Care Reform,” co-authored with Richard Church and Amy Garrigues, National Law Journal, September 2009
  • “Human Subject Research,” Chapter 13, The North Carolina Patient and Provider Rights Guide, North Carolina Hospital Association, 4th Edition, 2006
  • “Developments in Long Term Care,” Prognosis, NCBA Health Section and North Carolina Society of Healthcare Attorneys, 2005
  • “HIPAA – Backwards and Forwards,” Corporate Counsel, North Carolina Bar Association, June 2004
  • “Electronic Health Records,” Health Information and Technology Practice Guide, 2nd Edition, American Heath Lawyers Association, Spring 2003
  • “HIPAA Administrative Simplification,” The Health Lawyer, vol. 14, p. 9, January 2002


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