AHLA's Speaking of Health Law

Omenka Nwachukwu, Principal Consultant, Clearwater, speaks with Robert Kantrowitz, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, about the key issues surrounding health care data privacy and the various points of intersection from a regulatory standpoint. They discuss challenges related to inferential data and de-identified data, federal and state privacy laws, the recently proposed American Privacy Rights Act a...

Joe Wolfe, Attorney, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, speaks with Charles Oppenheim, Partner, Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC, about trends, updates, reforms, and developments related to the Stark Law. They discuss the history of Stark and recent reforms, how both new and experienced lawyers can approach Stark, practical applications of the 2021 changes, and best practices for analyzing fin...

Rob Gerberry, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Summa Health, speaks with Michael Peregrine, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, about how health care corporate boards can effectively exercise oversight of the corporate legal function. They discuss the general counsel’s dual reporting relationship, the history of the corporate responsibility movement, effective monitoring practices,...

John Howlett, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Clearwater, speaks with Carolyn V. Metnick, Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, and Vanessa K. Burrows, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, about the current regulatory and legal landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. They discuss some of the most compelling ways health care organizations a...

Kim H. Looney, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, and John E. Kelly, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, discuss the current dynamics of private equity in health care. They cover why private equity is interested in health care and what segments they are most interested in, private equity deal trends, public scrutiny of private equity, federal and state oversight, compliance and regulatory considerations...

AHLA's monthly podcast featuring health lawyer and blogger Norm Tabler's informative and entertaining take on recent health law and other legal developments. Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcas...

Kate Heffernan, Member, Epstein Becker Green, and Elizabeth McEvoy, Partner, Hinckley Allen, discuss how research misconduct is regulated in the United States. They cover research integrity as it relates to the law, how approaches to research integrity have changed over the years, how the legal stakes have been raised for institutions and scientists, and proposed regulations related to research mi...

Health systems are beginning to address the many issues that come with the physician enterprise. Rudd Kierstead, Director, Veralon, speaks with Victoria Sheridan, Counsel, Corporate & Regulatory Affairs, Atlantic Health System, about some of the motivating issues, key factors, and main goals related to integrating the physician enterprise. They also discuss issues related to governance and bra...

Jackie Papish, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and Peter Dressel, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, discuss Medicare outlier payments in the health care industry and how providers can navigate issues related to fraud, waste, and abuse. They cover what outliers are in the health care context, how the government deals with outliers from a reimbursement perspective, a history of outlier...

Lori Foley, Office Managing Principal, PYA, speaks with Jay Dewald, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright, about recent trends and developments related to health care acquisitions. They discuss the Biden Administration’s approach to private equity in health care, diligence and the impact of government payers, examples of Travel Act indictments, state approaches to private equity, and key takeaways relate...

Lisa Gora, Partner, Epstein Becker Green, and Richard Cheng, Managing Member, Ritter Spencer Cheng, discuss the burgeoning area of psychedelics in the health care industry. They cover some of the driving forces behind the resurging interest in psychedelics, federal and state developments, the contravention between state and federal law, and the future of the psychedelics industry and potential reg...

Andrew Ruskin, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, speaks with Mary Edmondson, Chief Compliance Officer, Inova Health, about the aftermath of last year’s Supreme Court decision in the SuperValu case and how health care organizations can prepare for potential investigations. They discuss how to ensure that stakeholders in an organization feel comfortable raising questions with compliance, how to evaluate w...

Michelle Frazier, Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer, Advocate Health, and David Glaser, Shareholder, Fredrikson & Byron, discuss how to mitigate risk using regulatory requirements and guidance. They cover the distinction between law and guidance, the legal authority to support that distinction and how to reconcile that distinction when being proactive about mitigating risk, real world examp...

AHLA's monthly podcast featuring health lawyer and blogger Norm Tabler's informative and entertaining take on recent health law and other legal developments. Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcas...

Dawn Morgenstern, Senior Director of Consulting Services and Chief Privacy Officer, Clearwater, speaks with Betsy Hodge, Partner, Akerman, and Gina Bertolini, Partner, K&L Gates, about the activities that are driving HHS/OCR health IT enforcement trends and what that means for the health care industry. They discuss the flurry of recent activity that appears to be setting the stage for major ch...

The highly competitive talent market, ongoing recovery from the pandemic, and increasing scrutiny of executive compensation are leading health care organizations to assess the fundamentals of their compensation programs. Michael Peregrine, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, and Bruce Greenblatt, Executive Workforce Practice Leader, SullivanCotter, discuss the top considerations for health ca...

Joe Wolfe, Attorney, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman, speaks with Tony Maida, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, and Jennifer Michael, Member, Bass Berry & Sims, about the state of value-based care and the rules related to value-based enterprises (VBEs). They discuss the trends and developments they are seeing in value-based care; examples or hypotheticals that provide a good illustrat...

Based on AHLA’s annual Health Law Connections article , this special series brings together thought leaders from across the health law field to discuss the top ten issues of 2024. In the tenth episode, Sarah Bowman, Principal, PYA, speaks with Jolee H. Bollinger, Deputy General Counsel, Sharp HealthCare, and Andrew D. Ruskin, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, about potential 340B activity in 2024 as dru...

Jessica Stack, Principal Consultant, TriCurve, speaks with Clare Moylan, Principal, Gibbins Advisors LLC, and Andrea Cunha, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, about how distressed health care transactions are different from other types of transactions and what is driving them. They discuss examples of distressed transactions, the types of buyers involved in these transactions, situations where bankruptcy...

Based on AHLA’s annual Health Law Connections article , this special series brings together thought leaders from across the health law field to discuss the top ten issues of 2024. In the ninth episode, Karin Anderson, Principal & Corporate Counsel, PYA, speaks with Carolyn V. Metnick, Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, about the impact of tracking technology on health care and...

Health care organizations' cybersecurity practices are under the microscope like never before. Jon Moore, Chief Risk Officer and Head of Consulting Services and Client Success, Clearwater, speaks with Iliana Peters, Shareholder, Polsinelli, about recent state and federal actions regarding the regulation of health care cybersecurity. They discuss why risk analysis is so important yet challengi...

Based on AHLA’s annual Health Law Connections article , this special series brings together thought leaders from across the health law field to discuss the top ten issues of 2024. In the eighth episode, Martie Ross, Consulting Principal, PYA, speaks with Caroline Brown, Partner, Brown & Peisch PLLC, about current proposals that are on the table for Medicaid that may come to fruition in 2024. T...

AHLA's monthly podcast featuring health lawyer and blogger Norm Tabler's informative and entertaining take on recent health law and other legal developments.  Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podca...

Based on AHLA’s annual Health Law Connections article , this special series brings together thought leaders from across the health law field to discuss the top ten issues of 2024. In the seventh episode, Debbie Ernsberger, Principal, PYA, speaks with Douglas M. Mancino, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, about the tax-related issues that the health care industry faces. They discuss what tax-exempt organi...

Jeff Bushong, Consulting Principal, PYA, speaks with Amy Leopard, Partner, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, about the current legal and regulatory aspects of artificial intelligence (AI), security, and compliance as it relates to medical practices. They discuss the importance of AI and cybersecurity in medical practices, HIPAA and cybersecurity challenges, enforcement activities, and risk managem...