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J.
Kent Culley
J. Kent
Culley initially practiced in general law, including litigation, bankruptcy
and creditors' rights and spent several years as an appellate lawyer for the
Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. Since the late 70’s, however,
he has focused his practice in the area of corporate law, primarily in the
health care field, representing health care providers, hospitals, closely
held corporations and not-for-profit corporations including health care
trade associations and foundations. Kent also assists in government
relations issues and lobby activities on behalf of clients. Kent is a member
of the firm's Health Care and Government Relations Practice Groups. He was
included in the Best Lawyers in America® in 2009 as well as being named a
Pennsylvania Super Lawyer® in 2006 and 2007 in the Health Care Law Category.
Kent focuses on
corporate planning and structuring in the health care field, including Medicare
and HIPAA compliance. Since the late 1980’s, Kent has been responsible for
structuring some 20 health care physical therapy rehabilitation networks
throughout the United States as well as service arrangements and joint ventures
between hospitals and rehabilitation therapy companies. Additionally, Kent has
been actively involved in mergers and acquisitions. Typically, these involved
rehabilitation companies in the physical therapy field being acquired by other
similar private corporations or publicly held health corporations. Kent has
represented both the seller or buyer in separate acquisition transactions and
typically the successor company in a merger of practices.
Kent also
provides legal services for numerous state physical therapy trade associations
of the American Physical Therapy Association, including the Pennsylvania
Physical Therapy Association. Kent has represented the Foundation for Physical
Therapy and presently is legal counsel to The Federation of State Boards of
Physical Therapy. He also represents numerous private health care corporate
practices and health in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North
Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and West Virginia. He has provided
legislative planning activities for some twenty-five state chapters of the
American Physical Therapy Association.
In addition to
his practice, Kent has lectured and written on diverse health law topics. He has
lectured extensively in the field of allied health including government
relations, labor law and corporate planning. He has also lectured on
considerations for contracting and structuring of practice arrangements and risk
management for numerous health care groups and allied health academic programs
throughout the United States.
Kent is a member
of the American Health Lawyers Association. He received his undergraduate degree
from Lafayette College in 1962 and his J. D. from the University of Pittsburgh
School of Law in 1966. He has been admitted to the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals as well as
all Pennsylvania state appellate courts.
Kent has an AV rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law
Directory, which is the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards
awarded by this national directory of lawyers.
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