Holly Buckley BS, JD

Holly focuses on corporate healthcare transactional work and regulatory matters. She primarily counsels healthcare clients, including hospitals and health systems, multi- and single-specialty medical practices, physician-owned hospitals, and ambulatory surgery centers on a variety of matters, including structuring transactions, affiliation agreements and compliance matters. Holly also counsels clients on general corporate matters, anti-kickback and Stark issues, self-referral, corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting prohibitions, and licensure requirements. She has also assisted clients with revising and developing compliance plans and implementing compliance programs. Holly regularly provides guidance to provider clients on the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and the HITECH Act, including counseling clients in addressing alleged breaches under HIPAA and the HITECH Act, and in responding to complaints filed under HIPAA with the Office for Civil Rights. She also advises clients on the legal issues related to electronic medical records and negotiation of electronic medical record agreements.

Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Holly was a client executive at Cerner Corporation where she worked within the client service organization and was assigned to several key customers including two large academic medical centers. She assisted customers with developing implementation strategies and served as a liaison between Cerner's engineering, intellectual property and clinical teams and the customer. While earning her law degree from Loyola University, Holly received the Chicago Women's Bar Foundation General Academic Scholarship as well as the Joe K. Tse Scholarship in Health Law. She was also honored as a Bernard Conway Health Law Scholar and served as president of the Loyola University School of Law Health Law Society.