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Dr. Kerrin Schillhorn, MIL

Certified Administrative Law Specialist
Certified Health Care Law Specialist
Partner

“Law firm culture – our counter model to arbitrariness: values and personality.”

Dr. Kerrin Schillhorn is a Certified Administrative Law Specialist and a Certified Health Care Law Specialist and works as a partner of the firm out of the Cologne office.

Precision, speed and unpretentious advice at eye level: Dr. Schillhorn’s clients have been able to rely on these qualities for many years. She advises and represents hospitals and other service providers in public and social law issues of medical law with a focus on hospital planning and hospital financing law.

Another focus of her work is administrative law. Project sponsors trust Dr. Schillhorn among other things in complex administrative proceedings, such as the law governing the extraction of raw materials and other legal issues related to facilities.

In addition to her work as an attorney, Dr. Schillhorn is a member of the executive committee of the Medical Law Working Group of the German Bar Association and a member of the board of the Administrative Law Working Group of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Vita

since September 2014, Lawyer and Partner of the law firm michels.mpks Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB
since July 2009, Specialized lawyer for medical law
from January 2009 to April 2014, Lawyer and Partner of the law firm Mütze Korsch Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
from November 2003 to December 2008, Lawyer and Partner of the law firm ZENK Rechtsanwälte
since 2001, Specialized lawyer for administrative law
from February 1998 to October 2003, Laywer at Redeker Sellner Dahs & Widmaier in Bonn
from 1995 to 1997, Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg
September 1999, doctorate with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum at the Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel on the subject of “Cultural Rights of Indigenous Peoples and International Environmental Law – Relationship and Compatibility”
from 1993 to 1994, studies of international law at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (Master of International Law)

Specialisation

Hospital law

Hospital planning law
Hospital financing law
Authorization of hospital doctors
Cooperation with other service providers
Establishment and authorization of medical care centers (MVZ)
Integrated healthcare
Remuneration of hospital services
Mergers and consolidations of hospitals with regard to hospital law

Environmental law

Federal Immission Control Act
Mining law
Excavation law
Soil protection law
Nature and species protection law

Memberships

Working group on the economy of health care of the Schmalenbach Society e.V.
Cologne Chamber of Lawyers
German Bar Association (DAV)
Cologne Bar Association (KAV)
Working Group on Administrative Law in NRW of the DAV
Working Group on Medical Law of the DAV
Society for Environmental Law
German Women Lawyers Association (djb)

Published Works

Genetic tests online – between self-determination and the need for regulation, in “Gesundheit und Pflege” (“Health and care” Magazine) June 2014, pp. 96-105
A specialist clinic with a supply contract is eligible for admission to the hospital plan, in “Arzt- und Medizinrecht kompakt” (Medical Law Magazine) August 2013, p. 13
Admissibility of the lump sum support, in “MedR” (Medical Law Magazine) 2013, pp. 311-317
Plan hospitals vs. private enterprises, in “ZMGR” (Medical Law Magazine) 2013, pp. 3-8
Official misconduct during the State Aid Assessment of a medical bill, in “MedR” (Medical Law Magazine) 2012, pp. 385-388
Introduction to the Genetic Diagnostics Act and its consequences for the liability of medical practitioners, in “ZMGR” (Medical Law Magazine) 2012, pp. 169-172
On the relation between hospital plans and supply contracts; A Decision Review, Federal Administrative Court 04/14/2011 – 3 C 17.10, in “MedR” (Medical Law Magazine) 2012, pp. 143-149
Supply orders and minimum volumes, in “ZMGR” (Medical Law Magazine) 2011, pp. 352-356
Necessity and requirements for inpatient hospital treatment; A Decision Review, Regional Social Court (LSG) of Schleswig-Holstein 03/24/2011 – L 5 KR 50/10, , in “MedR” (Medical Law Magazine), pp. 829-831
Supply orders and the depth of regulation Regelungstiefe of the assessment notice; A Decision Review, Higher Administrative Court (OVG)of North Rhine-Westphalia 03/11/2011 – 13 A 1745/10, in “MedR” (Medical Law Magazine)2011, pp. 740-742
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Lectures

04/01/2014: Lecture on “The current and future legal framework for the architectural design of nursing homes according to the Residence and Participation Act (WTG) and the State Nursing Act (PfGNW)”, seminar for nursing home operators, Cologne
03/19/2014: Lecture on “Quality and hospital planning“, at Mütze Korsch Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH (MKRG), Cologne
03/13/2014: Lecture on “The underestimated risk of personal service provision for private inpatients: negative examples and legally safe solutions“ DRG Forum Berlin
01/24/2014: Lecture on “Regional planning concepts and hospital plans“, Association of Public Hospitals NRW (AKW), Dortmund
12/04/2013: Lecture on the “Hospital Plan 2015 and regional planning concepts according to the article § 14 of the Hospital Organization Act (KHGG) of North Rhine-Westphalia”, MKRG Cologne
09/19/2013: Lecture on “The Medical Fee Schedule (GOÄ), the Uniform Assessment Standard (EBM), the Remuneration Distribution Scale (HVM) and the likes – the risk of personal service provision“, Biersdorfer Krankenhausgespräche (Biersdorf Hospital Talks)
05/11/2013: Lecture on “The legal bases of the Genetic Diagnostics Act( GenDG)“, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Humangenetik (German Association of Human Genetics), Frankfurt
04/26/2013 : Lecture on “Hospital Organization and Specialist Standards“, MKRG Hamm
04/25/2013: Lecture on “The bases of Hospital Law – Planning and financing as well as the cooperation with panel physicians in and for the hospital”, Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Confederation (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung), Berlin
04/12/2013: Lecture on “The personal service provision of hospital doctors“, on occasion of the Spring Convention of the Working Group for Medical Law of the German Bar Association (DAV), Munich
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