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.
- 1990 South Bundy Drive, Suite 777
Los Angeles, CA 90025 - 1901 Harrison Street, 14th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
- University of California Los Angeles, J.D., graduated 1974
- Northwestern University, A.B., graduated 1971
- California, Los Angeles County Bar Association – Healthcare Law Section
- California, State Bar of California
- California Academy of Attorneys for Health Care Professionals - Member
- 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
6 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
3 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
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