Nathan A. Kottkamp

The hallmark of Nathan Kottkamp’s practice is that he regularly handles intricate—and often urgent—matters, such as professional licensure complaints, regulatory deficiency findings, difficult patient/ethics issues, medical staff issues, and just about anything else that inevitably arises in the complex context of providing health care services. When he is not tending to these situations, Nathan provides experience-informed counsel to clients to reduce the risk or extent of problems in the first place, at both the state and federal levels.

Among Nathan’s clients are hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, behavioral health care services providers, senior care providers and retirement communities, specialty physician practices, post-acute, and long-term care providers.

Nathan is a nationally recognized authority on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). In addition to his other privacy and security experience, Nathan has earned the CIPP/US designation as a Certified Information Privacy Professional from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He has been recognized as a "Leading Lawyer" for Cyber Law in Virginia by Legal 500 U.S. (2017-2018) and has been named to "Legal Elite," Health Law by Virginia Business (2009-2017, 2019-2022). Complementing his HIPAA experience, Nathan routinely addresses issues involving 42 CFR Part 2, with respect to substance use disorder records.

Nathan has advised on numerous Certificate of Public Need (COPN) matters ranging from service expansions to the development of new hospitals, retirement communities, substance abuse facilities, and ambulatory surgery centers. Nathan also counsels clients on the Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA); the False Claims Act (FCA); the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS); the Stark Law; the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act); the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and state data breach laws.

Nathan’s higher education experience includes various accreditation and licensure matters, educational affiliation agreements for practical experiences, student health and campus safety issues, and the interplay of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) with HIPAA.

Nathan is actively engaged in addressing complex public health issues. He is the founder and chair of National Healthcare Decisions Day (www.nhdd.org), which highlights the importance of advance care planning (living will, health care agents, do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, and organ donation/anatomical gift documents). He is also a member of the Advance Directives Task Force Committee of the Supreme Court of Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, and a member of the Legislative Committee of the Central Virginia Overdose Working Group. For over 20 years, Nathan has been a member of several hospital ethics committees, in all cases serving on a pro-bono basis.

Within the firm, Nathan also serves on the Williams Mullen Diversity and Inclusion and Well-Being committees and is the chair of the sub-committee that is developing the firm’s Well-Being, Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement (WIDE) vision statement and action plan. 

Nathan is a prolific writer and regular speaker on a wide array of legal and ethics topics, including crisis management, HIPAA, digital health, 42 CFR Part 2, and ransomware.

Nathan earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he also earned his Master of Arts degree in bioethics. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from William & Mary.