Dustyn B. Jones
Dustyn Jones is a Member in the firm’s Health Care Service Group. She devotes her practice to healthcare regulatory compliance, healthcare transactions, physician and hospital contracting, and practitioner/payor reimbursement and coding disputes. She frequently advises clients on regulatory issues related to the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, EKRA, the False Claims Act, the No Surprises Act, HIPAA, and related state laws. She also advises on Kentucky health care facility and service licensure, reimbursement, and operations issues, with an emphasis on behavioral health services organizations and substance use disorder practices. She assists healthcare practices, individual providers, and hospitals with corporate transactions. Dustyn also has experience representing individual providers and practices on insurance and governmental payor reimbursement, overpayment, utilization, and coding disputes.
Negotiating Dental Employment Agreements
presenter, University of Kentucky Dental School, Fall 2022
No Surprise Billing Act
co-presenter, Kentucky Health Law Institute, UK/CLE, September 1, 2022
No Surprises Act: What You Need to Know and How it Will Impact Your Practice
Webinar, Kentucky Medical Association, March 31, 2022
Negotiating Dental Employment Agreements
presenter, University of Kentucky Dental School, Fall 2021
Information Blocking Rule: Steps healthcare providers can take to ensure internal policies don’t violate the Rule.
Medical News, December 2020
Substance Abuse, Opioid, and Behavioral Health Issues
co-presenter, Kentucky Health Law Institute, UK CLE, September 3, 2020
Negotiating Dental Employment Agreements
presenter, University of Kentucky Dental School, Fall 2019
Negotiating Dental Employment Agreements
presenter, University of Kentucky Dental School, Fall 2018
Employment Contracting Seminar
Negotiating Dental Employment Agreements
presenter, University of Kentucky Dental School, Fall 2017
Negotiating Dental Employment Agreements
presenter, University of Kentucky Dental School, Spring 2017
Exceptions and clarifications: Finally, CMS resolves stark inconsistencies in Stark Law
Medical News, February 2016
Residents in Business
Lexington Office Recruiting Committee, Chair
Lexington Clinic Foundation, Board of Trustees
Elevate Kentucky, Class of 2019
University of Kentucky College of Law
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Kentucky Trial Advocacy Board Member, Top 5 Overall Advocate
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Women's Law Caucus, Member
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Gayle Mohney Scholarship
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BarBri, Managing Representative, Lexington, Ky.
magna cum laude
University of Kentucky
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Public Relations Student Society of America, President
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Bowling Scholarship
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Bluegrass Scholarship
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Varsity Dance Team
When she is not practicing law, Dustyn enjoys getting outdoors with her husband, John, her son, Jack, and her two dogs, Louie and Oscar. She also enjoys the theater, live music, and Lexington’s local restaurant scene.
Best Lawyers in America®, Ones To Watch, Health Care Law and Insurance Law (2021)
Kentucky Health Law Institute
Embassy Suites by Hilton Lexington Green, 245 Lexington Green Circle, Lexington, KY 40503-3309
Health care attorneys Dustyn Jones and Shea Luna will be speakers at the Kentucky Health Law Institute presented by UK Rosenberg College of Law and the Kentucky Academy of Hospital Attorneys on August 31 and September 1, 2022.
Surprise! The No Surprises Act Applies to All Cash-Pay Medical Services
The federal No Surprises Act (the “NSA”) requires all healthcare service providers to provide accurate and reliable cost estimates (Good Faith Estimates) to patients paying cash for services. The NSA’s Good Faith Estimate requirement has not received the media or industry press enjoyed by the balance billing prohibitions applicable to out-of-network (“OON”) emergency services providers, OON ancillary service providers at in-network facilities, and OON air ambulance providers, but may actually be the biggest surprise in the NSA.
Stites & Harbison Promotes Three Attorneys
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC announced today that three attorneys have been promoted within the law firm effective January 2021.
Joint Agency Cyber Alert Warns of Imminent and Credible Ransomware Threat Against U.S. Health Care and Public Health Sectors
A joint cybersecurity advisory alert issued October 28, 2020, warns of an imminent cybercrime threat to the U.S. health care sector.
Stites & Harbison, PLLC Lawyers Named to 2021 Best Lawyers® Publications
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that 82 lawyers are included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
Kentucky Health Law Institute
Time: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
WEBINAR (via Zoom)
Sarah Spurlock, Janet Craig and Dustyn Jones will be presenters at this WEBINAR presented by UK Law Continuing Legal Education on September 2-3, 2020.
Dustyn Jones selected for Elevate Kentucky Class of 2019
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Leadership Kentucky recently selected Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Dustyn Jones as one of 25 participants for the Elevate Kentucky Class of 2019.
Regulatory Climate Under the Trump Administration
Stites & Harbison attorneys Rick Vance, Blaine Early, Dustyn Jones and former attorney Brian Bennett discuss the regulatory climate under the Trump Administration in this presentation to a live audience at Keeneland Race Track in Lexington, Kentucky.