Industries

• Health Care Innovation
  • Compliance
  • Operations
  • Transactions

Practices

• Corporate Law
  • Closely Held Business Transactions
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Outside General Counsel Services

Languages

• English
• French
• Japanese
• Mandarin

Biography

For more than a decade, Rhonda has been helping health care industry clients manage the array of legal issues that arise throughout their professional life cycles.  She has guided individual practitioners as they review their first employment agreement, evaluate an offer to buy into a medical practice, negotiate a separation agreement or restrictive covenant, and engage in thoughtful succession planning.  Rhonda has provided guidance to health care companies from their formation/acquisition stage through their sale (private or public) and the various stages of development in between.  Rhonda has also helped clients at all stages of development implement and adhere to compliance programs to ensure they operate in accordance with the many regulatory schemes applicable to the health care industry, including Medicaid and Medicare rules, self-referral and anti-kickback laws, and patient privacy laws such as HIPAA.

As a member of Frost Brown Todd’s Health Care Innovation Team, Rhonda leads the Team’s initiative focused on “senior living” clients: nursing facilities, assisted living and independent living facilities, hospice providers, and home health agencies.  Rhonda has extensive experience advising this category of provider in particular, including guiding them through the development of clinically integrated provider networks and, most recently, helping them navigate the fallout from COVID-19.  She takes pride in helping this sector of the health care industry meet the unprecedented demands being placed upon it.

Rhonda received her J.D. in 2009, graduating first in her class (summa cum laude) from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where she served on the editorial board of the Northern Kentucky Law Review and as a justice of the Moot Court Board. Prior to receiving her J.D., she taught college language courses and worked with various international businesses as an administrator and consultant. Rhonda is fluent in French, conversational in Mandarin Chinese, and also speaks some Japanese.