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Alexander Kirkpatrick

Fenton Law Group
  • Recognized Since:
    2019
  • Recognized in:
    Health Care Law
  • Law School:
    University of California Los Angeles
  • Website:
    http://www.fentonlawgroup.com
  • Locations:
    1990 South Bundy Drive, Suite 777
    Los Angeles, CA 90025
  • 1901 Harrison Street, 14th Floor
    Oakland, CA 94612

Alexander Kirkpatrick has been engaged in healthcare law since 1978 when as a deputy attorney general in the California Department of Justice in the Criminal Law Division, he was invited to join a newly-formed team of attorneys prosecuting Medi-Cal fraud charges against a broad range of providers. He was promoted to supervising deputy attorney general in 1981. Alex left the Attorney General’s Office in 1983 to enter private practice, initially with a law firm in Pasadena focusing on acute care hospitals and medical staff issues. Subsequently, Alex formed a small boutique firm that focused on representing health care providers in professional discipline, medical staff, reimbursement and litigation matters. Later, Alex reunited with a litigator and continued to work principally in health care and administrative law. After that firm dissolved, Alex continued to work in healthcare law as a sole practitioner.

Alex’s practice focuses on three related fields of practice in healthcare law: reimbursement, enrollment and sanctions including Medicare and Medi-Cal audits, exclusions, suspensions and fraud and abuse allegations affecting providers in medicine, pharmacy, psychology, and other fields; professional disciplinary matters representing licensees before agencies including the Medical and Dental Boards and the Boards of Pharmacy, Psychology, Registered Nursing and Behavioral Sciences; and writs and appeals and civil litigation on behalf of  licensees in contractual and reimbursement-related matters.

Alex has been named a Southern California “Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters since 2012.

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Alexander Kirkpatrick has been engaged in healthcare law since 1978 when as a deputy attorney general in the California Department of Justice in the Criminal Law Division, he was invited to join a newly-formed team of attorneys prosecuting Medi-Cal fraud charges against a broad range of providers. He was promoted to supervising deputy attorney general in 1981. Alex left the Attorney General’s Office in 1983 to enter private practice, initially with a law firm in Pasadena focusing on acute care hospitals and medical staff issues. Subsequently, Alex formed a small boutique firm that focused on representing health care providers in professional discipline, medical staff, reimbursement and litigation matters. Later, Alex reunited with a litigator and continued to work principally in health care and administrative law. After that firm dissolved, Alex continued to work in healthcare law as a sole practitioner.

Alex’s practice focuses on three related fields of practice in healthcare law: reimbursement, enrollment and sanctions including Medicare and Medi-Cal audits, exclusions, suspensions and fraud and abuse allegations affecting providers in medicine, pharmacy, psychology, and other fields; professional disciplinary matters representing licensees before agencies including the Medical and Dental Boards and the Boards of Pharmacy, Psychology, Registered Nursing and Behavioral Sciences; and writs and appeals and civil litigation on behalf of  licensees in contractual and reimbursement-related matters.

Alex has been named a Southern California “Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters since 2012.

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Education:

  • University of California Los Angeles , J.D., graduated 1974
  • Northwestern University, A.B., graduated 1971

Bar Admissions:

  • California, Los Angeles County Bar Association – Healthcare Law Section
  • California, State Bar of California
 

Court Admissions:

  • U.S. Court of Appeal for the Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits
  • U.S. District Court, Southern, Central and Eastern Districts of California; Eastern District of Texas; Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. Tax Court

Affiliations:

  • California Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals - Member

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:

  • Health Care Law
 

Awards:

  • Thomson Reuters Southern California “Super Lawyers” (2012-Present)
  • Martindale-Hubbell – AV rated
 

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Fenton Law Group
http://www.fentonlawgroup.com
 
Headquarters
1990 South Bundy Drive, Suite 777
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 444.5244
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Oakland, CA

1901 Harrison Street, 14th Floor

Oakland, CA 94612

United States

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