Member

K. Kelly White Bryant

K. Kelly White Bryant is a Member of the firm located in the Louisville office where she is Chair of the Health Care Service Group. Kelly’s practice is devoted to health law, focusing on regulatory matters, transactional matters and certificate of need matters. Kelly’s certificate of need experience includes preparation and submission of applications, representation in CON hearings and CON decision appeals for a broad range of provider types, including: ambulance, home health, hospice, acute care beds, psychiatric beds, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, neonatal special care beds, rehab agencies, cardiac catheterization, ambulatory surgery center, limited service clinic, MRI, mobile health service and linear accelerator.

Kelly’s health law experience also includes: compliance guidance; fraud and abuse analysis; physician self-referral issues; hospital/physician contracting; representation before the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure and other licensing agencies; and reimbursement issues.

Bar Admissions

Kentucky

Firm Leadership

Health Care and Insurance Regulatory Service Group, Chair

Memberships

American Bar Association

Health Law Section

Kentucky Bar Association

2024 Health Law Institute Planning Committee

Louisville Bar Association

Health Law Section

American Health Lawyers Association

Kentucky Academy of Hospital Attorneys

Community Involvement

Kentucky Academy of Hospital Attorneys, Member and Past-President of Board of Directors

Second Presbyterian Weekday School, Board of Directors and Executive Committee (2020 – Present)

Louisville Bar Foundation, Board of Directors

Medical News, Board of Directors

Focus Louisville, Fall 2013 Graduate

Neighborhood House, Board of Directors (2010 – 2018)

American Heart Association, Board of Directors (2010 – 2016)

Education

J.D.,

2007

University of Kentucky College of Law

Org / Honor

Kentucky Law Journal, staff member

Equine Law Society

Law School Recruitment Committee

Chancellor’s Scholarship

CALI Award in Professional Responsibility and Healthcare Organizations

B.A., Political Science and International Studies with a minor in History,

2004

Rhodes College

Org / Honor

St. Johns College, Oxford University, Study Abroad Program, Summer 2002

Intensive Language Program, Madrid, Spain, Summer 2001

More Than Stites & Harbison

Kelly joined Stites & Harbison in September 2007 after participating in the firm’s summer associate program. Kelly serves on the Board of Directors for the Louisville Bar Foundation and the Second Presbyterian Weekday School. She is a past President of the Board of Directors for the Kentucky Academy of Hospital Attorneys and a past Chair and past Vice-Chair for the Louisville Bar Association Health Law Section. For nine years, Kelly served on the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood House, a community center in Louisville’s Portland neighborhood. She also was previously on the Board of Directors for the American Heart Association and Medical News. Outside of work, Kelly enjoys spending time with her husband, David, and their little boy, Sam.

Accolades

Best Lawyers in America®, Health Care Law (2019-25)

Best Lawyers in America®, Louisville Area Lawyer of the Year for Health Care Law (2022)

Kentucky Super Lawyers®, Rising Star (2013-22)

Business First of Louisville, Partners in Health Care People to Watch (2014)

Louisville Magazine Top Lawyer (2016)