The best part about my practice is collaborating with healthcare providers to navigate the ever-changing regulatory landscape, to find effective and efficient solutions to identified problems, and most importantly to proactively identify issues before they become future problems.
Rachel Poynter focuses her practice on helping healthcare providers navigate operational issues, structure deals, maintain compliance and mitigate risk within complex regulatory frameworks. Her client list includes hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, physician and dental practices, home health and long-term care providers, laboratories, and other ancillary providers. Rachel is Board Certified in Health Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Rachel serves as outside general counsel for many of her clients, advising on matters such as federal and commercial reimbursement and appeals, audits and investigations, licensure issues, vendor contracting, entity structuring and much more. She also helps clients develop and maintain compliance with federal and state laws, particularly the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA and other privacy laws. In addition, Rachel plays a key role in clients’ healthcare transactions, whether she’s structuring the entire deal or advising the firm’s transactional team on critical regulatory issues.
Before joining Gray Reed, Rachel served as the compliance and privacy officer of four physician-owned hospitals. Additionally, as a consultant, she aided a hospital in navigating the compliance aspects of a physician/hospital co-management agreement.