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Catherine Ballard is a partner in the Bricker & Eckler health care department with a practice focusing on the day-to-day operations of a variety of health care facilities as well as those facilities' dealings with administrative agencies and court proceedings. She works with clients in the areas of medical staff credentialing; quality assessment/improvement and peer review; physician recruitment and contract negotiations; development of compliance programs, allied health professional credentialing and policies; developing and implementing managed care systems; and general patient care issues. She has written articles, spoken, and prepared amicus curiae briefs on behalf of professional organizations in both federal and state courts on a number of these issues. Her clients include hospitals, managed care organizations, group practices, individual health care practitioners, and health care related professional associations.
Representative Experience
Law Clerk to the Honorable John D. Holschuh, Federal District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 1985-87
Adjunct assistant professor in legal writing, The Ohio State University College of Law
Community and Professional Activities
Member, American and Ohio State Bar Associations
Member, American Health Lawyers Association and Society of Ohio Healthcare Attorneys
Immediate Past President, Society of Ohio Healthcare Attorneys
Board Member, Kya's Krusade LLC
Award and Recognitions
Listed, Best Lawyers in America (health care law) 1995-2008
Listed in Ohio Super Lawyers since 2004
Publications
Rise in Censured Doctors Challenging Peer Review, Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy Vol. X, Number 10, August 1993
Representative Litigation
Michael M. Fox, M.D. v. Parma Community General Hospital, Eighth Appellate District Case No. 84428 (Ohio Supreme Court declined jurisdiction)
Catipay v. Trumbull Memorial Hospital, Case No. 2003-T-0136, Eleventh Appellate District (2004) (granting HCQIA immunity to all defendants)
Menon v. Stouder Memorial Hospital, 1997 Ohio App. LEXIS 567 (granting HCQIA immunity to all defendants)
Landefeld v. Marion General Hospital, Inc., 994 F.2d 1178 (6th Cir. 1993) (failure of physician terminated from medical staff to prevail on claim of disability)
Amicus Curiae Briefs on Behalf of the Ohio Hospital Association
Browning v. Burt, 66 Ohio St.3d 544, motion for rehearing denied, 67 Ohio St.3d 1439 (1993) (statute of limitations for negligent credentialing)
Nemazee v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center, 56 Ohio St.3d 109 (1990) (exhaustion of administrative remedies)
State, ex rel., Hardin County Publishing Co. v. Hardin Memorial Hospital, Third Appelate Judicial District Case No. 6-02-04 (Ohio's Sunshine Act)
State of Ohio, ex rel. Stys v. Parma Community General Hospital, 93 Ohio St.3d 438, motion for reconsideration denied, 93 Ohio St.3d 1499 (2001) (Ohio's Public Records Law)
Education
University of Louisville (B.A, 1975)
The Ohio State University College of Law (J.D., summa cum laude 1985); Member, Order of the Coif; Member, Ohio State Law Journal.
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