Kristi Kung is counsel in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Washington D.C. office.

Kristi Kung represents healthcare industry clients in a range of regulatory, compliance, and transactional healthcare matters including: fraud and abuse counseling (Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, and False Claims Act issues), internal compliance investigations, responses to government anti-fraud enforcement actions and investigations, responses to reimbursement audits, Medicare/Medicaid enrollment and reimbursement issues, health information privacy and security compliance, and licensing and accreditation of healthcare providers and suppliers. She also advises on the health regulatory requirements and risks related to mergers/acquisitions/sales, insolvency and restructuring, private equity investment and healthcare lending transactions.

Ms. Kung's portfolio includes the evolving area of telemedicine, mobile health and the use of big data, with an emphasis on federal and state regulatory compliance. Ms. Kung frequently advises telehealth companies and mobile health app developers on matters related to licensing, credentialing, reimbursement, corporate practice, privacy and security, fraud and abuse, and FDA oversight, among other legal and compliance obstacles. She also works with hospitals seeking to expand patient access and specialty coverage through the use of e-health technologies.

Ms. Kung also has a background in healthcare privacy and security, having worked for the Department of Health and Human Services – Office for Civil Rights in Atlanta, Georgia during law school conducting legal research on the interaction between HIPAA and state laws and answering questions from the public and healthcare providers regarding HIPAA privacy.