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    Christina Principe is an Associate in Schenck Price’s Health Care Law Practice Group. Her practice focuses on corporate and transactional matters for health care providers and industry stakeholders, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity transactions. In this role, she structures and implements corporate ownership arrangements related to the acquisition and sale of medical practices and prepares and negotiates a broad range of transactional and operational agreements, including asset purchase agreements, operating agreements, employment and professional services agreements, leases and organizational bylaws. Her experience further includes drafting and negotiating agreements involving clinical research, health care technology and software licensing.

    In addition to her transactional work, Christina counsels clients on licensing and regulatory matters for New Jersey health care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and continuing care retirement communities. She has significant experience navigating the Certificate of Need process, transfers of ownership, and other state licensing requirements.

    Her practice also includes advising clients on compliance with state and federal health care laws and regulations, including the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, fee-splitting prohibitions, state corporate practice of medicine restrictions, and scope of practice requirements. Christina represents a wide range of health care clients, including hospital systems, physicians, single- and multi-specialty medical practices, ambulatory surgery centers, and other New Jersey-licensed health care facilities.

    Prior to joining Schenck Price, Christina was an associate at a New Jersey law firm focusing on health care law. She also served as a legal intern at two firms and as a summer associate at Schenck Price in 2021. Before attending law school, Christina served as an Advisory Associate at KPMG in New York, where she specialized in Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering compliance and enforcement.

     

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    • Author, "New Jersey Proposes Integrated License for Outpatient Healthcare Providers to Advance Health Care Coordination," Legal Updates for Businesses Spring 2025, June 2025
    • Co-Author, "Texas Court Vacates Portions of the CMS Final Rule," April 17, 2025
    • Presenter, "Discounts in Hospital Vendor Contracts," December 10, 2024
    • Presenter, "Corporate Concepts," Atlantic Health System, October 22, 2024
    • Author, "CONSOLIDATION IN HEALTH CARE: Agencies Solicit Public Comment on the Impacts of the Corporate Ownership Trend in Health Care," March 18, 2024

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