
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
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‘Bait and Switch’ Advertising Brings $16 Million Verdict
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Commentary by Kitty Juniper Healthcare Risk Management, October 1, 2016 Kitty Juniper comments as a jury awarded a plaintiff $16 million in a malpractice case […]
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FTC on Watch Over Mobile Health Apps
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Commentary: Kathleen “Kitty” Juniper, Esq. The Los Angeles Daily Journal, May 12, 2015
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Buchalter Nemer Welcomes Kathleen “Kitty” Juniper and Keri Borders
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Buchalter Nemer is pleased to announce the addition of Kathleen “Kitty” Juniper and Keri Borders. Ms. Juniper has joined the Firm as Of Counsel in […]
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Presentation
Kathleen Juniper, Moderator at the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys
November 19th, 2021
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Publication
Buchalter Client Alert COVID-19: Hastening Telehealth Provision of Medical Services Across State Lines
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April 30th, 2020
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Publication
Testimony of Kathleen Juniper to Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development
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February 16th, 2017
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Presentation
Kitty Juniper, Speaker at Hearing on the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine
May 2nd, 2016
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Presentation
Kitty Juniper, Speaker at Orange County Bar Association
February 11th, 2016
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Publication
State Law Obstacles to the National Distribution of eHealth Medical Devices Directly to Consumers
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October 8th, 2015
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Delivering Health Care Services to Consumers through eHealth Devices: The Role of State Professional Practice Laws
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September 15th, 2015
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Hell Freezes Over in California: Private Optometry and Optical Companies Compromise
September 14th, 2015
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Webinar
Webinar: Emerging Trends for Non-Profit and Religious Health Care Organizations
August 18th, 2015
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Presentation
Kathleen Juniper, Panelist at the 2015 Specialty Health Summit
May 4th, 2015
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Publication
The Business of Health Care: Navigating the Corporate Practice of Medicine Doctrine
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February 2nd, 2015
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Presentation
Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at the American Health Lawyers Association Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute
February 2nd, 2015
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Publication
Retail Health Care: Rite-Aid, Gift Cards and the False Claims Act
December 8th, 2014
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Publication
Risk-Sharing and Value-Based Approaches to Health Benefits
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November 25th, 2014
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Publication
CMS Initiative to Transform Clinical Practice
October 28th, 2014
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Keeping up with Provider Payment Models: The Times, They are A-Changing
October 2nd, 2014
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Publication
Risk Taking in the Provider World: Is a Knox-Keene Plan a Good Strategic Move For You?
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July 7th, 2014
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Publication
Corporate Practice of Medicine: A Fifty State Survey
January 1st, 2014
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Presentation
Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at San Diego County Bar Association
November 7th, 2013
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Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at American Health Lawyers Association
September 9th, 2013
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Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
March 9th, 2013
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Kathleen Juniper, Panelist at BIOCOM Reimbursement Seminar
February 14th, 2012
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Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at BIOCOM Reimbursement Committee
April 12th, 2011
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Kathleen Juniper, Speaker at San Diego County Bar Association
March 10th, 2011
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Kathleen Juniper, Panelist at the Healthcare Financial Management Association
February 23rd, 2011
- 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.
Ms. Juniper earned her J.D. at Washington College of Law at American University and her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Cincinnati.
- California Society for Health Care Attorneys
- The Friendly Center (non-profit devoted to providing resources to impoverished children and families based in Orange, CA), Board Member
- Higher Ground Youth & Family Services (non-profit that provides services at at-risk youth in Anaheim), Board Member
- American Health Lawyers Association
- Orange County Women Lawyers
- San Diego County Bar Association; co-chaired Committee on Diversity; past Vice-Chair Client Relations Committee
- San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program; Board of Directors 2011 -2013; 2004 – 2007; Past Chair, Fund Development Committee; Past: Co-Chair, Justice for All Dinner; Domestic Violence Clinic Volunteer Attorney
- Lawyers Club of San Diego; Served as President, Advisory Board Member, and Judicial Evaluation Committee Member
- California Women Lawyers; Served on Board of Governors
- Adaptive Business Leaders Executive Roundtable; Past Member, San Diego
- National Conference of Women Bar Associations; Served as San Diego Regional Board Member