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Hope  \nHicks Thomas, LLP  \nCareer Highlights  \nKelsey is a business litigator who works closely with clients faced with complex commercial disputes, with an emphasis in the managed care industry. Kelsey represents clients as plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state lawsuits, as well as arbitrations, involving contractual and extracontractual disputes, as well as overpayment and fraudulent billing issues. She advises group insurers, plan administrators, third-party claim administrators, employers, and pharmacies in lawsuits involving medical benefits, including ERISA and state law claims. Kelsey has experience in all stages of litigation, including drafting pleadings and discovery requests, briefing jurisdictional and procedural issues, managing complicated discovery dockets, responding to evidentiary challenges, working with experts, interviewing witnesses, and handling bench and jury trials. Kelsey has represented clients in Texas, Oklahoma, Delaware, and Florida. While the range of business disputes on which Kelsey works crosses many industries, she has extensive experience in managed care litigation. Kelsey handles cases involving disputes over medical benefits, claim billing and payment, reimbursement disputes, fraud, and other healthcare issues. Kelsey’s pro bono practice includes working as a volunteer prosecutor for the City of Houston Municipal Court where she tried numerous jury trials to verdict and handled all aspects of pretrial motions, voir dire, direct and crossexamination, and closing arguments.  \nRepresentative Cases  \n Kelsey handles contested proceedings brought by or against managed care clients; she has extensive experience defending and/or prosecuting many types of claims and causes of action, including:  \n Disputes involving facility-based providers, free-standing emergency centers, hospitalbased providers, and facilities.  \n Disputes involving anesthesia services, pharmaceutical services, emergency services, medical billing and coding issues, and bariatric surgeries and related procedures.  \n Disputes involving prompt payment laws, payment and claim processing policies, pharmaceutical reimbursement, balance billing, surprise billing, and out-of-network payment methodologies  \n Represented pharmacy in lawsuit relating to usual and customary billing; following jury trial, obtained complete verdict in client’s favor.  \n Represented managed care company in litigation involving surprise emergency medical billing; obtained favorable result for client.  \n Represented managed care company and prosecuted fraud claim against out-ofnetwork hospital and affiliated emergency clinics; obtained summary judgment award based on misrepresentations regarding the nature and location of service provided.  \nHonors and Distinctions  \n Named to the “40 & Under List,” Benchmark Litigation, 2024  \n Selected as a Rising Star for Business Litigation, Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers Magazine, 2021-2024  \nProfessional Memberships  \n South Texas College of Law Alumni Coach for Mock Trial & Moot Court  \n Volunteer Prosecutor, City of Houston (2015)  \nPublications and Speaking  \nPublished Cases/Publications  \n Featured in “Hospital Must Pay Aetna $41M For Out-Of-Network Scheme,” Law360 (January 3, 2017)  \n Best Lawyers in America 2025 Recognizes 291 Hunton Andrews Kurth Attorneys, (August 15, 2024)  \n Benchmark Litigation Names Eleven Hunton Andrews Kurth Lawyers to 40 & Under List for 2024 (August 12, 2024)  \n Hunton Andrews Kurth Promotes Eleven to Partner (April 1, 2024)  \n Hunton Promotes 11 Attorneys To Partner, Law360 (April 1, 2024)  \n700 Louisiana, Suite 2300 Houston, TX 77002 [www.hicks-thomas.com](www.hicks-thomas.com)[ ](www.hicks-thomas.com)Web Bio  \nKelsey J. Hope  \nHicks Thomas, LLP  \n Texas Rising Stars Names Five Hunton Andrews Kurth Lawyers to 2024 List ( March 21, 2024)  \n Best Lawyers in America 2024 Recognizes 293 Hunton Andrews Kurth Attorneys ( August 21, 2023)  \n Rising Stars Selects Nine Hu","cbCairlwHKIc5IIn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairlwHKIc5IIn","pdf",1940580,"English","# Career Highlights\n## Representative Cases\n## Honors and Distinctions\n## Professional Memberships\n## Publications and Speaking\n## Education\n## Court Admissions","[{\"question\":\"What type of legal disputes does Kelsey J. Hope handle?\",\"answer\":\"Kelsey works on complex commercial disputes with a strong emphasis on managed care. 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