Kitty Meyers Cohen is a member of Sutherland's Tax Practice Group and focuses on the areas of tax law and health care law, particularly Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and fraud and abuse issues. Because a number of the firm's health care clients are nonprofit organizations, she also deals with tax issues affecting various types of health care providers and other exempt organizations.
Kitty has worked extensively with many types of health care organizations, including teaching hospitals, medical faculty practice plans, HMOs, PPOs, pharmaceutical companies, physician joint ventures and insurance companies. Her work includes both legal and regulatory matters at national, state and local levels and ranges from state administrative proceedings on Medicaid reimbursement disputes for specific clients to helping to inform Congressional staff members about issues of concern to our clients. Because Medicare and Medicaid questions often arise in general corporate transactions in which health care providers are involved, she also handles a variety of corporate matters, including financing projects, for a number of the firm's health care clients.
In addition, Kitty works on matters for a number of the firm's tax-exempt clients, largely universities and academic medical centers. Since 1987, she has served as outside tax counsel to the State Bar of Georgia and to the Georgia Bar Foundation and advises the Supreme Court of Georgia on exempt organization matters. Kitty's work with exempt organizations also includes a number of quasi-governmental organizations, such as foundations set up by public school systems.
Before joining the firm, Kitty worked as a staff member of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, first with the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, handling health and insurance matters, and later with the Subcommittee on Health and Environment, specializing in food and drug law, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and family planning issues and legislation. During law school, she lectured at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health on the politics of health care and was a consultant to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Kitty also acted as assistant to the general counsel at North Carolina Memorial Hospital, the teaching hospital at the University of North Carolina.
Professional Honors and Awards
· First Recipient, Tax Counsel Award presented by State Bar of Georgia
Professional and Community Involvement
· Member, Health Law and Tax Sections, American Bar Association
· Member, Tax Section, Atlanta Bar Association
· Member, National Health Lawyers Association
· Member, American Academy of Hospital Attorneys
· Member, Georgia Academy of Hospital Attorneys
· Member, Board of Trustees, Georgia Bar Foundation
· Member, President's Council, The Epstein School
· Member, Bylaws Committee, The Temple