Joe Kahn

Joseph M. Kahn is a Member and a part of the Firm’s Health Care practice group.  He works out of the Firm’s Raleigh, NC office.  Mr. Kahn regularly advises hospitals and physician practices 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 his advice regularly includes:

• Stark/Anti-Kickback analysis
• health care mergers/acquisitions/affiliations
• hospital/physician contracts, relationships and joint ventures
• compliance audits and reports
• vendor and provider contract drafting and negotiation
• strategic analysis
• managed care issues

Mr. Kahn’s experience also includes:

• Multiple hospital affiliation matters, including serving as counsel for hospitals entering into long-term leases, sale arrangements, and management agreements;
• Assisting hospitals and physician practices with compliance audits and investigations, as well as leading clients through the reporting process;
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating thousands of provider and vendor contracts
• Counseling hospital clients through numerous physician practice acquisitions, as well as developing other joint venture and physician affiliation models

Mr. Kahn is a member of the Advisory Opinion Task Force for the American Health Lawyers Association’s Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. In addition, he currently serves as President-Elect of the Board of the North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys.  He is also a Council member of the Health Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association.

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.  He is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors (2010-11) for the Make-a-Wish Foundation's Central and Western North Carolina chapter.

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

• Best Lawyers in America (2011, 2012)
• "Who's Who in Health Care: Law Practices" Triad Area, NC - The Business Journal of the Triad

• 62 Attorneys Named to the 2012 Edition of Best Lawyers®
  Nexsen Pruet is proud to announce that 62 of its attorneys have been named to the 2012 edition of Best Lawyers®.
• Nexsen Pruet Expands Health Care Practice in Raleigh
  Nexsen Pruet is pleased to announce the expansion of its Health Care practice in Raleigh with moves by attorneys Frank Kirschbaum and Joe Kahn. Kirschbaum is a new addition to Nexsen Pruet’s roster, while Kahn recently relocated to North Carolina’s Capital City from the firm’s Greensboro office.
• "Providers jockey for 'accountable care' status"
  Nexsen Pruet health care attorney Joe Kahn shares insight about regulatory issues involved with establishing accountable care organizations as part of the Affordable Care Act.

• "Community Health Needs Assessments: Timing and Clarifications"
  Nexsen Pruet Health Care attorney Joe Kahn provides legal commentary for a white paper entitled "Community Health Needs Assessments: Timing and Clarifications."
• 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.

Co-presenter, "Current Trends in Hospital Affiliations", North Carolina Healthcare Financial Managers Association (NCHFMA) Summer Meeting, August 2011

Co-presenter, "Current Trends in Hospital Affiliations", Dixon Hughes Goodman Hospital Symposium, May 2011

Co-presenter, "The New Role of Hospital Boards in the Face of Increased Compliance Risks", NCHA Trustee Institute, April 2011