Joe Kahn

Joseph M. Kahn is an attorney with the Firm’s Health Care group and works out of the Greensboro, NC office.  As a member of the Health Care group, Mr. Kahn regularly advises hospitals and physicians both in an outside general counsel capacity and on specific matters of importance to the Firm’s health care clients.  Mr. Kahn’s practice focuses on assisting clients with their strategic development and the implementation of their goals within the regulatory framework applicable to health care entities and practitioners. 

The scope of Mr. Kahn’s advice regularly includes:

• Stark/Anti-Kickback analysis
• fraud and abuse matters
• hospital/physician relationships and joint ventures
• contract drafting and negotiation
• managed care issues

Mr. Kahn is a member of the Advisory Opinion Task Force for the American Health Lawyers Association’s Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. He is also an editor for Prognosis, which is the health care quarterly newsletter published jointly by the Health Law section of the North Carolina Bar Association and the North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys (NCSHCA). Mr. Kahn also serves as a board member for the NCSHCA. Additionally, Mr. Kahn serves as a Board Member for the Make-a-Wish Foundation's Central and Western North Carolina chapter.

A native of Greenville, SC, Mr. Kahn received his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in history and political science from Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was a member of the South Carolina Law Review.  Mr. Kahn is licensed in both North Carolina and South Carolina, and is a member of the North Carolina Bar, the South Carolina Bar, the American Health Lawyers Association, the North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys, the North Carolina Health Care Financial Managers Association, and the American Bar Association.

Mr. Kahn is a frequent author and presenter on a variety of health care topics. 

• "Who's Who in Health Care: Law Practices" Triad Area, NC - The Business Journal of the Triad

• Fifty-nine Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers in America®; Five Practice Areas Listed Among Top in the Carolinas
  Nexsen Pruet is proud to announce that 59 of its attorneys have been named to the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers®.
• "Novant land sale nets $120M for expansion plans"
  Nexsen Pruet health care attorney Joe Kahn is quoted in an article in The Triad Business Journal entitled "Novant land sale nets $120M for expansion plans."
• Nexsen Pruet Elects Nine New Members
  Nexsen Pruet announced that J. David Black, Amy Harmon Geddes, Stephen P. Groves, Sr., Gregory T. Higgins, Joseph M. Kahn, Christopher A. Ogiba, Brian T. Price, J. Frederick Reames, III, and Jeffrey S. Tibbals have been elected Members (partners) of the firm.

• Conflict of Interest Credentialing
  This article outlines the increasing need for a new hospital strategy, often referred to as conflict of interest credentialing or a modified version of economic credentialing, and discusses the implementation of this strategy.

"Stark Update and Anti-Markup Rule", Annual Meeting of the National Association of Rural Health Clinics, June 2009

• Annual Health Care Executive Summit