Kopf HealthLaw Group

Biographical Information

Randi Kopf is the founding and principal attorney of Kopf HealthLaw, LLC, a health care law practice. Ms. Kopf has over 30 years of professional experience and serves as general and health counsel for individual physicians, medical groups, national and regional medical and allied health associations and other health care related providers and entities locally and across the country. Her practice assists clients with corporate matters such as incorporation, practice structuring, medical practice acquisition and sale, employee agreements and employment related matters, e-health and technology, issues, managed care contracting and negotiations and professional grievance matters. Ms. Kopf provides advice regarding regulatory and legislative matters, practice Compliance and Privacy plans, the application of federal and state legislation, fraud and abuse issues, HIPAA, Stark, Medicare and health insurance matters. Ms. Kopf serves on the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission Peer Review Panel and participated with the Maryland Health Care Commission’s EDI/HIPAA task force that developed a nationally online accepted privacy guide tool. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA). Randi Kopf was voted by her health law peers as one of the top 100 lawyers in Maryland and the District of Columbia and her name was published in Super Lawyers in 2007.

Ms. Kopf has been a website legal consultant for medical and legal professionals and organizations for many years. As a outgrowth of her health care law practice concerning the practice of medicine over the Internet, she is now a frequent Bar Association speaker and legal consultant regarding the development and legal review of websites concerning the compliance with professional guidelines, state and federal law compliance. As one of the first 14 attorneys in the state of Maryland to go up on the net with a website in 1994, she also assists attorneys in leveling the playing field with e-practice plan development from a bricks and mortar office to a virtual law practice. Her clients have included: surgeons and medical physicians and practice groups and lawyers. Ms. Kopf was given the 2004 Cynthia Northrop Distinguished Service Award by TAANA for her work in the development of their website.

Ms Kopf has provided legal support for several U.S. Congressional health care bills and advocated on behalf of physicians before the US Attorney’s Health Care Fraud Task Force. She has been a sought after speaker for national and state conferences on medical legal topics. Ms. Kopf has extensive teaching experience and has held instructor and faculty positions at Georgetown University, the University of Maryland and Adelphi University. She was the editor and wrote the Forward for the Business and Legal Guidebook for Nurse Practitioners. Her published work includes Compliance Program Guide, Before You Sign … Managed Care Contract Review for Health Care Providers, and The Nursing Handbook of Physical Assessment. The American Bar Association, in their Health Lawyer Journal, published her article, “Antitrust Enforcement: How Medical Practices Feel the Effects” and was a significant contributor to the PAHCOM Compliance Program Guide. Ms. Kopf has been a frequent contributor to professional journals. She is also an editor and contributing author for the Journal of Nursing Law. She was on the Board of Advisors and contributor to Managed Care Contract Negotiator and Health Information Compliance Insider as well as contributing to Medicare Compliance Alert, Medical Economics, BNA E-Health Reporter and other professional publications.

Ms. Kopf received a B.S. from Cornell University, a B.S. and M.S. degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Nursing, and a J.D. degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in Maryland, the District of Columbia and the United Sates Supreme Court. She has received recognition by Who’s Who in American Medicine and Health Care, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American Nursing and received the Cornell University Alumni Award for Outstanding Volunteerism and the National Distinguished Service Award in Nursing. Ms. Kopf is a member of the American Bar Association, American Health Lawyers Association, Maryland and District of Columbia Bar, Montgomery County Bar Association Health law section (chair), and the Chesapeake Nurse Attorneys, Inc. (past President). Before establishing the Kopf HealthLaw, LLC , Ms. Kopf was an attorney in the Health Law practice of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, one of the largest law firms in the United States. She also served as a legal intern at the Office of the General Counsel at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Randi Kopf has served as special health law counsel, consultant to and or speaker for:

United States Congressional hearings and legislation
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland (Med Chi) (Maryland's Medical Assoc.)
U.S. Attorney's Health Care Fraud and Abuse Task force
Medical Group Managers Association (MGMA)
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO)
Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM) (National and state),
The Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland
American Podiatric Medical Association and State Associations
American Guild of Patient Account Managers (AGPAM now the American Association of Healthcare Administrative Managers (AAHAM))
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) (national and state chapters)
Capital Physician's Network (a Washington DC, based physicians provider network) and other provider networks,
The Arthritis Foundation of Greater Washington
The American Cancer Association
American Occupational Therapy Association
Association of Dermatology Administrators/Managers
Washington Metropolitan Area Arthritis Foundation
Lupus Foundation of Greater Washington
The Association of CPAs for the Greater Washington Area
Pedorthic Footwear Association
Law school professors
Medical and Allied health colleges and continuing education, and
Medical personnel placement agencies

Ms. Kopf earned her BS from Cornell University in 1975, a BS and MS from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1978 and her JD from the University of Maryland, School of Law in 1989.She was a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner for 30 years.

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