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Susan Kimble is a healthcare attorney with extensive experience counseling healthcare clients in regulatory, compliance, privacy, clinical risk management and related legal matters. She has defended hundreds of clinicians in medical malpractice litigation and licensing matters, managed and advised health systems through regulatory surveys, provided day-to-day legal guidance to individual clinicians, practice groups, and health systems, and developed and delivered legal, risk management, and medical staff education. With experience serving in-house for two health systems and two health-tech startups, Susan offers a deep understanding of the complexities within the evolving healthcare industry and a unique insider’s perspective on clinical and business operations.

Before joining Stoel Rives, Susan was associate general counsel for 98point6, Inc., a developer of a virtual telehealth platform, and its affiliated primary and behavioral healthcare clinic.  Earlier in her career, Susan was assistant general counsel with MultiCare Health System and a staff attorney with St. Charles Health System in Bend, Oregon.

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What starts as a simple employment verification request can quickly turn into something riskier. As hospitals dig deeper during physician credentialing, HR professionals are increasingly faced with forms that ask for more than just facts—venturing into judgment calls about clinical skills, professionalism, and “potential concerns.”

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