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Karen S. Rieger is recognized by her clients and peers throughout Oklahoma to have vast experience on healthcare legal issues. She joined Crowe & Dunlevy in 1981, and today, as a shareholder and director, serves as the Chair of the Firm’s Healthcare Section. Her practice includes representation of healthcare institutions and practitioners throughout Oklahoma and surrounding states on a broad range of health law issues, including the Anti-Kickback and Stark laws, HIPAA privacy and security requirements, laws affecting tax-exempt and governmental healthcare providers, Medicare reimbursement rules, medical staff issues and others. She has been involved structuring numerous acquisitions and joint ventures involving healthcare providers. Ms. Rieger has served as an Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, and is a frequent lecturer on health law issues, both locally and nationally. She also has authored numerous articles on health law topics. She is a past president and current director of the Oklahoma Health Lawyers Association and a member and former Chairperson of the Health Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association. She is also a member of the ABA Health Law Section and the American Health Lawyers Association, with committee involvement on the following committees: Long-Term Care (past vice chair), Fraud and Abuse, Credentialing and Peer Review, Hospitals and Health Systems and Regulation and Accreditation. | 