Kathleen “Kitty” Juniper’s practice focuses on delivering strategic and practical legal advice to primarily health care-related entities. Kitty brings a comprehensive approach to clients’ matters with experience in private practice, business, government, and government relations. The issues that Kitty typically handles with her clients relate to:

Telehealth * Knox-Keene health plan regulation (specialty, provider-based, discount)  *  eHealth medical devices * retail health * corporate practice of medicine restrictions * government approvals  *  ancillary services (optical, dental, allied health providers) * advertising and marketing * legislative advocacy * physician issues *

Typical engagements include:

• Structuring telehealth arrangements for national rollouts – provider licensing and contracting, management services agreements, electronic platform licensing, and compliance with corporate practice of medicine restrictions.
• Knox-Keene license applications (provider-based, specialty, and discount).
• Developing compliant business models for highly regulated health care entities and new products.
• Reviewing advertising copy and marketing-related issues for compliance with federal and state laws.
• Drafting management services contracts and structuring arrangements.
• Assisting health care entities with regulatory compliance at the agency, attorney-general, and operational levels.
• Working with stakeholders and individual companies to craft legislative solutions.

Ms. Juniper’s prior experience outside of private practice includes In-house Counsel and Government Relations Director of a national optical company, President of a California specialty vision health care plan, Director of Government Relations at University of San Diego’s Medical Center and School of Medicine, and attorney positions in the Federal Trade Commission’s Policy Planning and Consumer Protection Divisions in Washington, D.C. Ms. Juniper has served on the California Advisory Board on Health Care Service Plans and various trade association and government/industry committees.

Awards/Recognitions

• Preeminent AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell 
• “Best of San Diego” Health Care Attorney
• Past Member of California Advisory Board on Health Care Service Plans
• Wiley W. Manual Award for Pro Bono Legal Services
• Belva Lockwood Award, Lawyers Club of San Diego
• Superior Performance Award, Federal Trade Commission

Bar Admissions

• California
• Ohio (inactive)

Education

• Washington College of Law at American University
• University of Cincinnati

Significant Accomplishments

• Represented national company (and subsidiary) in developing business models for various business lines, negotiation of compliant regulatory structures to Attorney General’s office, and drafting and negotiating legislation with government/industry workgroup to resolve legal issues resulting from new case law.
• Led legal team and obtained limited Knox-Keene license for large hospital-based health care system expeditiously.
• Analyzed state regulatory and telehealth laws and provided business options for proper advertising and national distribution of medical devices to consumers.
• Undertook due diligence and legal advice to investment funds with regard to regulatory issues and compliance of target retail health companies and health plan.
• Provided strategic advice and legal structuring of corporate entities facing corporate medicine and commercial practice restrictions.

• Buchalter Client Alert COVID-19: Hastening Telehealth Provision of Medical Services Across State Lines
• The DMHC’s Final Guidance on the General Licensure Regulation (“Restricted Health Plans”) The Lull Before the Storm
• Testimony of Kathleen Juniper to Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development
• Hell Freezes Over in California: Private Optometry and Optical Companies Compromise
• Retail Health Care: Rite-Aid, Gift Cards and the False Claims Act
• CMS Initiative to Transform Clinical Practice
• The Role of Professional Licensing Boards in Excluding New Products and Services from the Market: Will State Immunity Continue to Shield Anti-Competitive Behavior?
• Keeping up with Provider Payment Models: The Times, They are A-Changing
• Corporate Practice of Medicine: A Fifty State Survey
• State Law Obstacles to the National Distribution of eHealth Medical Devices Directly to Consumers
• Delivering Health Care Services to Consumers through eHealth Devices: The Role of State Professional Practice Laws
• The Business of Health Care: Navigating the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine
• Risk-Sharing and Value-Based Approaches to Health Benefits
• Risk Taking in the Provider World: Is a Knox-Keene Plan a Good Strategic Move For You?