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K. Kelly White Bryant

K. Kelly White Bryant is a Member of the firm located in the Louisville office where she is Chair of the Health Care Service Group. Kelly’s practice is devoted to health law, focusing on regulatory matters, transactional matters and certificate of need matters. Kelly’s certificate of need experience includes preparation and submission of applications, representation in CON hearings and CON decision appeals for a broad range of provider types, including: ambulance, home health, hospice, acute care beds, psychiatric beds, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, neonatal special care beds, rehab agencies, cardiac catheterization, ambulatory surgery center, limited service clinic, MRI, mobile health service and linear accelerator.

Kelly’s health law experience also includes: compliance guidance; fraud and abuse analysis; physician self-referral issues; hospital/physician contracting; representation before the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure and other licensing agencies; and reimbursement issues.

Recent News, Articles & Speaking Engagements

Medical Cannabis Seminar

panel member, Kentucky Academy of Healthcare Attorneys Webinar, November 13, 2024

Kelly White Bryant Promoted to Chair of Stites & Harbison's Health Care Service Group

by staff writer, Attorney at Law Magazine, July 14, 2023

Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Laws are Relaxed During COVID-19

Biennial Kentucky Health Law Institute

Planning Committee (2018 and 2020)

Information You Need on the COVID-19 Coronavirus

No-fault insurance in Kentucky

Introduction to Health Law

Panel member, Health Enterprise Network Healthcare Fellows, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandies School of Law, March 19, 2019

Residents in Business

faculty panel, University of Louisville School of Medicine, May 15-17, 2018

Employment Contracting Seminar

Kentucky Medical Association, Louisville, Ky., January 27, 2018

Residents in Business

faculty panel, University of Louisville School of Medicine, May 15-16, 2017

Health Facility Licensure 2.0: New OIG Procedures

presentation, Kentucky Health Law Institute, September 16, 2016

Residents in Business

faculty panel, University of Louisville School of Medicine and Greater Louisville Medical Society, May 24-26, 2016

Residents in Business

faculty panel, University of Louisville School of Medicine and Greater Louisville Medical Society, May 13, 2015

The changing face of Kentucky's long-term care

Residents in Business

faculty panel, University of Louisville School of Medicine and Greater Louisville Medical Society, May 22, 2014

Hot Topics in Health Care Law

co-presented at the UK Health Law Institute, November 8, 2013

Residents in Business

program, served on faculty panel, University of Louisville School of Medicine and Greater Louisville Medical Society, June 8, 2013

Physician Employment Contracting Symposium

co-presenter, Kentucky Medical Association, November 3, 2012

Physicians' Financial Relationships with Drug and Device Companies Made Public (Physician Payments Sunshine Act)

Medical News, September 2012

The Certificate of Need Program: The Other Side of the Story

Louisville Bar Briefs, November 2011

The Role of Accountable Care Organizations in the U.S.

Preparing Healthcare Providers for the RAC Program

co-author, Louisville Bar Association's Association's Bar Briefs, August 2009

Health Planning, Certificate of Need and Health Facility Licensure Law in Kentucky

co-author, Kentucky Health Law (5th ed.), 2009

Hospital and Medical Staff Credentialing and Peer Review

co-author, Kentucky Health Law (5th ed.), 2009

Information and Access Issues in the Health Care Environment

Kentucky Health Law, (5th ed.), 2009

E-discovery and Electronic Health Information

Kentucky Health Information Management Association annual meeting, Louisville, Ky., June 5, 2008

The Role of Qui TamRelators in the Health Care Industry and the Supreme Court's Recent Decision in Rockwell v. United States

published in §1.09 of Health Law and Compliance Update by John Steiner, 2007
Bar Admissions
Kentucky
Firm Leadership

Health Care and Insurance Regulatory Service Group, Chair

Memberships
American Bar Association, Health Law Section
Kentucky Bar Association, 2024 Health Law Institute Planning Committee
Louisville Bar Association, Health Law Section
American Health Lawyers Association
Kentucky Academy of Hospital Attorneys
Community Involvement

Kentucky Academy of Hospital Attorneys, Member and Past-President of Board of Directors

Second Presbyterian Weekday School, Board of Directors and Executive Committee (2020 – Present)

Louisville Bar Foundation, Board of Directors

Medical News, Board of Directors

Focus Louisville, Fall 2013 Graduate

Neighborhood House, Board of Directors (2010 – 2018)

American Heart Association, Board of Directors (2010 – 2016)

Education
More Than Stites & Harbison

Kelly joined Stites & Harbison in September 2007 after participating in the firm's summer associate program. Kelly serves on the Board of Directors for the Louisville Bar Foundation and the Second Presbyterian Weekday School. She is a past President of the Board of Directors for the Kentucky Academy of Hospital Attorneys and a past Chair and past Vice-Chair for the Louisville Bar Association Health Law Section. For nine years, Kelly served on the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood House, a community center in Louisville’s Portland neighborhood. She also was previously on the Board of Directors for the American Heart Association and Medical News. Outside of work, Kelly enjoys spending time with her husband, David, and their little boy, Sam.

Accolades

Best Lawyers in America®, Health Care Law (2019-25)

Best Lawyers in America®, Louisville Area Lawyer of the Year for Health Care Law (2022)

Kentucky Super Lawyers®, Rising Star (2013-22)

Business First of Louisville, Partners in Health Care People to Watch (2014)

Louisville Magazine Top Lawyer (2016)

Bryant Best Lawyers 2025
Bryant Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year 2022
Bryantsuperlaw
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Events

Kentucky Academy of Healthcare Attorneys Webinar: Medical Cannabis Seminar

Date: 11/13/24
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

WEBINAR

Stites & Harbison attorneys Bailey Browning, Kelly White Bryant, Jennifer Cave, Jackson Hurst-Sanders, Robin McGuffin and Sarah Cronan Spurlock will be speakers at the Kentucky Academy of Healthcare Attorneys webinar, Medical Cannabis Seminar being held November 13, 2024.

Bailey M. Browning , K. Kelly White Bryant , Jennifer J. Cave , Jackson B. Hurst-Sanders , Robin E. McGuffin , and Sarah Cronan Spurlock November 05, 2024
Press Releases

Stites & Harbison, PLLC Lawyers Named to 2025 Best Lawyers® Publications

Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that 97 of its lawyers are included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence according to the publication. Additionally, 12 Stites & Harbison attorneys are named as “Lawyer of the Year” and 30 attorneys are recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, which recognizes attorneys early in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC August 16, 2024
Events

2024 Kentucky Health Law Institute

Date: 9/4/24 - 9/5/24

The Campbell House, 1375 South Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky

Stites & Harbison attorney Kelly Bryant is on the Planning Committee for the 2024 Kentucky Health Law Institute presented by UK Rosenberg College of Law. Healthcare attorney Shea Luna will be one of the speakers. The Institute is being held in Lexington, Kentucky September 4-5,

K. Kelly White Bryant and Stacy Shea Luna (Shea) July 11, 2024
Press Releases

Stites & Harbison, PLLC Lawyers Named to 2024 Best Lawyers® Publications

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that 101 of its lawyers are included in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC August 24, 2023
Press Releases

Kelly White Bryant Promoted to Chair of Stites & Harbison’s Health Care Service Group

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that attorney K. Kelly White Bryant has been promoted to Chair of the firm’s Health Care Service Group.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC July 17, 2023
Press Releases

Stites & Harbison, PLLC Lawyers Named to 2023 Best Lawyers® Publications

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that 98 of its lawyers are included in the 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Additionally, 11 Stites & Harbison attorneys are named as “Lawyer of the Year” and 19 attorneys are recognized in “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch,” which recognizes attorneys early in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC August 18, 2022
Press Releases

Kentucky Super Lawyers Honors 37 Stites & Harbison Attorneys for 2022

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The 2022 edition of Kentucky Super Lawyers recently honored 37 Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorneys in the Covington, Frankfort, Lexington and Louisville, Ky., offices. The publication named 29 attorneys to the Super Lawyers list and eight attorneys to the Rising Stars list.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC January 11, 2022
Press Releases

Stites & Harbison, PLLC Lawyers Named to 2022 Best Lawyers® Publications

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that 93 lawyers are included in the 2022 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Additionally, 11 attorneys are named as “Lawyer of the Year” and 14 attorneys are recognized in “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch,” which recognizes attorneys early in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC September 01, 2021