Profile

Joy Hord focuses her practice primarily on the resolution of legal, regulatory and business issues for entities involved in the health care industry.

Experience Highlights

Ms. Hord has assisted clients in a broad variety of projects, including:

• Sales, acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations and restructuring for public and private companies, including companies involved in the health care industry
• HIPAA administrative simplification provisions, including compliance with HIPAA's privacy and security provisions
• Corporate compliance plans, including Medicare compliance, for participants in the health care industry
• Anti-kickback and Stark analysis and compliance
• Clinical trial contracting
• General business and contracting matters for physician practices
• Negotiation of payor contracts

News

• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• 55 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers®
  July 30, 2009
• New "Red Flag Rules" Require Upgrade of Security Policies by Healthcare Providers
  March 9, 2009
• Forty-Six Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 26, 2009
• Parker Poe Increases Number of Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America
  October 1, 2008
• More than 50 Parker Poe Attorneys among Business Leader's Top Lawyers
  September 24, 2008
• 40 Parker Poe Attorneys Named Among 2008 Best Lawyers in America
  September 14, 2007
• Rewards of Clinical Trials Tempered by Legal Risks
  Charlotte Business Journal
  January 5, 2007
• Parker Poe Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers in America
  September 12, 2006
• North Carolina Court Upholds Liquidated Damages Clause as Alternative to Covenant not to Compete in Physician Contract
  January 22, 2003
• Patient Health Information - Are You Ready for the New Privacy Rules?
  Liability Alert
  July 24, 2001

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Maneuvering in Medicare’s World
  October 25, 2011
  Cornwell Center, Charlotte, NC
• How to Read a Contract, National Association of Women Business Owners
  May 18, 2010
  Learning Rx, Charlotte, NC
• Asset Preservation, Co-presenter
  August 21, 2004
  North Carolina Physician and North Carolina Pediatric Society Annual Meeting

Memberships

• North Carolina Bar Association
  Medico-Legal Liaison Committee
• American Health Lawyers Association
  Member
• North Carolina Society of Health Care Attorneys
  Member
• Charlotte Community Health Clinic
  Board of Trustees, 2005-present
• Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
  Co-chair, 2006 Man and Woman of the Year Campaign, Western North Carolina Chapter; Board of Trustees, Western North Carolina Chapter, 2001-2007
• The Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tennessee
  Board of Trustees