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Joyce Harris Hennessy

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Joy's practice includes representing and advising health plans, health systems, hospitals, physician groups, and other health care entities on a wide range of health care legal issues. She has extensive experience in health care contracting and negotiating and documenting joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures of health care entities. Joy regularly advises clients on health care regulatory matters, including HIPAA, federal and state fraud and abuse, compliance programs and licensure, certification and accreditation. Her practice also involves working with various state insurance regulators with respect to transactional and regulatory matters for health plan clients, including the preparation and filing of Forms A, B, C and D and applications for certificates of authority.

American Bar Association
American Health Lawyers Association
Healthcare Businesswomen's Association
Missouri Society of Health Care Attorneys
St. Louis Area Health Lawyers Association
State Bar of California
The Missouri Bar
Launch St. Louis, Inc.
Director (2010-Present)
Secretary (2010-Present)
Panelist, “Accountable Care Organizations – Defining ACOs & Provider Impact,” a Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, St. Louis Chapter Event (February 2011)
“Physician Recruitment Arrangements: A Hospital Perspective” Los Angeles County Bar Association’s 2nd Annual Healthcare Law Compliance Symposium (September 2005)
“Regulation of Access to Special Categories of Health Care Records” Confidentiality of Medical Records in California Seminar (March 2003)
Joyce Harris Hennessy
Saint Louis University School of Law
J.D., cum laude (1996)
University of Notre Dame
B.B.A., with honors (1993)
Thompson Coburn LLP
Partner (2008-Present)
Of Counsel (2007-2008)
Catholic Healthcare West
Pasadena, California
Senior Counsel (2003-2007)
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP
Los Angeles, California
Associate (1999-2003)
Gallop, Johnson & Neuman
St. Louis, Missouri
Associate (1997-1999)
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District
Clayton, Missouri
Judicial Clerk (1996-1997)
Missouri (1996)
California (2000)