Kelly A. McCarthy

Born: Springfield, Massachusetts, 1964

Education: Boston University, B.S., summa cum laude, 1986, Stanford University, J.D., 1989

Practice Areas: Health Law; Business Law; Regulatory Law

Admissions: 1989, Massachusetts

Miscellaneous Information: Law Clerk to Hon. A. David Mazzone, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1989-1990.

Biography:

Kelly McCarthy is a member of the Business/Finance and Litigation/ADR Departments and coordinates the firm’s Health Law Practice Group. Her practice includes the representation of health care providers, including individual practitioners, physician practice groups, hospitals, managed care organizations, and integrated delivery systems, in an array of corporate, regulatory, risk management, compliance, medical staff, antitrust, and litigation matters.

Ms. McCarthy is a 1986 summa cum laude graduate of Boston University and a 1989 graduate of Stanford Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. David Mazzone of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and later developed a pro bono program for the homeless as a legal services staff attorney.

Ms. McCarthy is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association Forum on Health Law, and she is an adjunct professor of health law in the graduate degree program at Springfield College. She is a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on Public Charities and has served as a member of the Health Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Ms. McCarthy is a frequent speaker on such topics as patient confidentiality, provider reporting obligations, corporate compliance for health care providers, and medical/legal issues in managed care. She participates in several volunteer, professional and community organizations, including the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Justice Project, a non-profit legal services organization assisting low-income clients in western and central Massachusetts, and the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts.