Kathleen Premo Bio

When health care businesses need a business-savvy legal partner to lead merger and acquisition (M&A) growth initiatives, serve as outside General Counsel or address complex regulatory or strategic business challenges, they turn to attorney Kathleen Premo. For more than 20 years, Kathleen has served as a legal and strategic advisor to a diverse range of health care and business clients, including private equity sponsors and their platform investments, hospital and health systems, primary care and specialty medical groups, telehealth innovators, and national pharmacy and hospice organizations. Kathleen’s clients appreciate her sophisticated business acumen and insightful, real-world legal counseling, honed while serving as a legal advisor, strategist, and health care executive during her years as General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer for various health care clients. Her clients report that they rely on her seasoned legal advice and midwestern work ethic to manage legal and business teams to accomplish push goals on budget and despite significant obstacles. She treats each client’s business as though it were her own and deploys organizational and problem-solving skills to meet challenges head-on and deliver on simultaneous challenging legal projects. Kathleen leads the firm’s General Counsel Services group and consistently incorporates a business perspective and business-forward work product to serve her clients. She advises a full spectrum of health care industry service providers and businesses, including risk-bearing medical groups and management services organizations (MSOs), private equity investors and their platform investments, independent physicians associations, accountable care organizations (ACOs), hospitals and post-acute providers (including hospices, nursing homes, and home health agencies), telehealth organizations, and specialty care networks, among others. Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Kathleen was the founder of Premo Advisors, where she provided executive-level legal solutions to companies presented with growth opportunities, business sales and acquisitions, strategic initiatives, and material business challenges. She has personally managed more than 75 sales or acquisitions involving, in total, hundreds of medical practices throughout the United States. Previously, Kathleen was General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of a multi-state Medicare Advantage MSO and Medical Group. In that role, she served as the lead attorney for national third-party payor contracting—including Medicare Advantage and other risk-sharing arrangements, forms of pay-for-performance, ACO structures, collaborative care arrangements, and network contracting. Kathleen also managed the company’s acquisitions and growth strategies, physician contracting, litigation and employment matters, and its legal risk management program. Earlier in her career, she served as employment and regulatory counsel for a network of nonprofit children’s hospitals and as corporate integrity agreement compliance, licensing, and government reimbursement counsel for a national drugstore chain. Her professional career began at a business and health care law firm in Minnesota that represented large privately held commercial, health care, and post-secondary educational institutions. Kathleen has conducted seminars and presented on risk contracting, health care reform, efficient and effective business law advice, law office development, and HIPAA.