Rebecca Kennedy is a senior associate in Alston & Bird’s Health Care Group, focusing her practice on health care regulatory and compliance matters for hospitals, health care providers, and other health care entities. Rebecca advises clients on a range of regulatory issues, as well as the regulatory aspects of complex health care transactions, including state attorneys general Hospital Acquisition Act filings and hearings, corporate practice of medicine and fee splitting, state licensing, HIPAA compliance, compliance with federal and state fraud and abuse laws, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues. Rebecca holds a certification in healthcare compliance (CHC) from the Health Care Compliance Association.
Rebecca received her J.D., summa cum laude, in 2016 from Georgia State University College of Law, where she served on the board of the Georgia State University Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. In 2012, Rebecca graduated from Agnes Scott College with a B.A. in psychology and political science. Before joining Alston & Bird, Rebecca was a judicial intern to Justice David Nahmias of the Supreme Court of Georgia.