Post & Schell

Kathleen Chancler

Partner
(215) 587-1007
(215) 320-4152 Fax
kchancler@postschell.com
Philadelphia
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Kathleen Chancler concentrates her national litigation, consulting and compliance practice in Health Law and Antitrust & Trade Regulation where she represents proprietary and not-for-profit hospitals, multi-hospital systems, integrated delivery systems, academic/teaching medical centers, medical schools, as well as the directors and officers of these commercial healthcare providers and healthcare educational enterprises.

Ms. Chancler's antitrust litigation, compliance and counseling practice focuses on complex medical staff credentialing/privileging strategic planning and disputes, exclusive contracts, economic credentialing, board and physician conflicts of interest, medical staff appointment/reappointment criteria, medical staff closures, disruptive physicians, provider exclusion/over-inclusion, medical staff/governance strategic planning, board and physician leadership standards of conduct, and director and officer fiduciary duties.

Ms. Chancler also possesses extensive litigation experience in the defense of catastrophic and high damage exposure professional liability lawsuits, and devotes a portion of her practice to the defense of such matters on behalf of institutional healthcare providers.

Areas of Practice

Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Health Law
Professional Liability

Representative Cases

Health America v. Susquehanna Health System
Obtained summary judgment for Susquehanna Health System and its constituent hospitals in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The Plaintiff Health America alleged that defendants engaged in illegal price fixing during managed care contract negotiations.

Alan Gordon, M.D. v. Lewistown Hospital
Obtained summary judgment on damages claim and judgment for Lewistown Hospital on claim for injunctive relief in a case filed in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The Plaintiff cataract surgeon, Dr. Gordon, alleged a variety of antitrust violations related to Lewistown Hospital's termination of his medical staff privileges.

Paul Bizzle, D.O. v. Northern Montana Hospital
Obtained summary judgment for Northern Montana Hospital in a case filed under Montana's Unfair Trade Practices Act. The Plaintiff Dr. Bizzle alleged antitrust violations related to Northern Montana Hospital's recruitment and employment of a competing orthopedic surgeon.

Easton Radiology Associates v. Easton Hospital, et al
Obtained judgment for Easton Hospital in an injunctive action filed in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The plaintiff radiology group, Easton Radiology Associates, alleged breach of an exclusive contract when the Hospital entered into an agreement with another group to provide competing outpatient radiology services.

Bar Membership

Pennsylvania, 1984

Publications - Full Text Available

Fifth Circuit Poliner Panel Reverses $33 Million Dollar Verdict Against Hospital and Physician on HCQIA Immunity Grounds
Federal Appeals Court Reverses Kadlec And Eases Hospital Disclosure Obligations

Affiliations

Pennsylvania Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association
Member, Evidence Code Task Force, 1992

Court Admissions

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Education

Doctor of Jurisprudence, Villanova University School of Law, 1984 Member, Moot Court Board
Bachelor of Arts, English, LaSalle College, 1981 Magna Cum Laude

Classes/Seminars/Speaking Engagements

Co-Presenter: Measure Twice - Cut Once: Strategies for Success in Peer Review, 14th Annual Health Law Institute, March 12, 2009

Medical Legal Issues Facing the CHOP Practitioner, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, December 18, 2008

Co-Presenter: The Credentialing Conundrum- Providing Information about Physicians, Health Care Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, June 5, 2008

Medical Legal Issues Facing the CHOP Practitioner, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, April 30, 2008

Medical Legal Issues Facing the CHOP Practitioner, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, June 23, 2007

Co-Presenter: Measure Twice - Cut Once: Strategies for Success in Peer Review, 13th Annual Health Law Institute, March 14, 2007

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, Post & Schell, September 15, 2005

Article: Deborah A. Datte, Esq., Kathleen Chancler, Esq., Paula Sanders, Esq., National Peer Review Protection? Understanding the New Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, Health Lawyers News, Volume 9, Number 11, November 2005.

M-CARE: Implementation of Substantive Changes into Litigation Practice, Post & Schell, November 29, 2004

Anatomy of a Professional Liability Case, The Section on Otolaryngology of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, October 18, 2004

HIPAA: Impact on Litigation, Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association, August 1, 2003

HIPAA: Impact on Litigation, Post & Schell, May 8, 2003

Informed Consent, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, December 6, 2001

Risk Management Considerations for an Obstetrics-Gynecology Practice, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, June 7, 2001

Neurosurgery in the New Millennium – Informed Consent, The Eleventh Pan, Philadelphia Neurosurgery Conference, December 3, 1999

Tough Problems in Medical Malpractice Cases, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, November 1997 and December 1997

Jury Selection: The Secrets of Success, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, June 25, 1996

Preparing and Trying the Medical Malpractice Case, Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar, February 1996

Practical Effects of Hospital Corporate Liability, Grand Rounds, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pennsylvania Hospital, 1995

Hospital Corporate Liability, Pennsylvania Defense Inst./Philadelphia Assoc. of Defense Counsel , 1995

Hospital Corporate Liability, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, November 21/22, 1994

Hospital Corporate Liability, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 1993

Hospital Corporate Liability, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, July 15/16, 1992