Laura Reilly O’Hara has 30 years of experience representing healthcare providers and other clients in the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on the representation of physicians, hospitals, and healthcare organizations in complex professional and commercial litigation, investigations, and administrative proceedings involving allegations of professional negligence, fraud and abuse, wrongful credentialing, sham peer review, and corporate direct and vicarious liability.
Education
Recognitions
Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubble
Named among The Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation-Health Care by Best Lawyers (2022-2023,2025)
Memberships
Dallas Bar Association, Member
American Association of Healthcare Lawyers, Member
UT Arlington Masters of Science in Healthcare Administration, Advisory Board Member
Lymphoma Research Foundation, Event Chair
Nexus Recovery Center, Former Board Member
State Bar Licenses
Court Admissions
Publications
- Editor. Law Enforcement Requests for PHI – What is Permissible? (2010)
- Editor. Health Industry Online (2006-2007)
- Poliner v. Presbyterian – An Overview (2005)
- EMTALA – The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (2005)
- EMTALA – What you Need to Know (2004)
Presentations
- Legality of Social Media – HIPAA and Patient Cell Phones in the Office, Texas Ambulatory Surgery Center Society (February 2018)
- Due Process in the Peer Review Context – What Does it Really Mean?, Med Staff News American Health Lawyers Association (December 2016)
- Anatomy of a Peer Review, Dallas County Medical Society (March 2016)
- Ebola, Protecting Yourself, Your Workplace, and Your Employees, Labor & Employment Series (November 2014)
- Peer Review – Pitfalls and Perils, Health Law Symposium (May 2013)
- Disclosure of Unanticipated Outcomes – Why, When, Who and How?, Health Law Counsel Series (2007)