A health law boutique serving the Pacific Northwest

At Hatfield Knivila, we are singularly focused on helping our clients thrive in a complex and ever-changing regulatory environment.

We provide industry-specific legal advice informed by decades of experience advising the region’s most sophisticated providers, payors, and service organizations. As former partners at one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier law firms, we offer our clients the expertise and service orientation of a big firm with the personal touch of a boutique.

Kelly Knivila

Kelly is a healthcare regulatory lawyer who specializes in helping clients solve problems with federal and state regulatory agencies. She has deep experience in Medicaid programs having spent over three decades representing Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (CCOs), providers, and state Medicaid agencies on a wide array of regulatory issues. Kelly also has special expertise in the federal and state laws that impact behavioral health providers and is a trusted advisor to many of Oregon’s community mental health programs.

Timothy Hatfield

Tim is a dedicated health care attorney who has devoted his career to advising insurance companies, coordinated care organizations, and health care providers in complex regulatory and compliance matters. He has particular expertise advising clients regulated by the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, and the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner. Clients rely on Tim to advise them in self-disclosures and disputes with regulators in Oregon, Washington and other states. He also shepherds complex transactions through the regulatory filing and approval process.