AHLA's Speaking of Health Law

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...

Lynn Sessions, Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP, speaks with Jim Vint, Managing Director, Secretariat Advisors, about what the health law community needs to know about advertising technology on health care websites. They discuss what the technology is and how organizations are using it, why this is such a priority for the HHS Office for Civil Rights and other regulators, who is reviewing how org...

In this series from AHLA’s Early Career Professionals Council, health law professionals share their career paths, what they wish they had known as students, and what a typical day in their job looks like. In this episode, Rob Yates, Managing Consultant, Berkeley Research Group, speaks with Mikayla Garvey, Senior Compliance Associate, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare. Mikayla talks about her work o...

Jim Yanci, Principal, Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting, speaks with Anjana Patel, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green PC, and Kristen McDermott Woodrum, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP, about some of the trends and market conditions that are impacting private equity (PE) physician deals. They discuss reasons physicians are exploring private equity opportunities and what PE tends to look for in a physician...

The digital health landscape has changed the way that patients are tracking and managing their health care, raising new concerns around data privacy and security risks. Wes Morris, Senior Director, Consulting Services, Clearwater, speaks with Bethany Corbin, an attorney who provides strategic guidance and legal counsel to health care innovation companies and Femtech, about the major privacy and se...

Joe Wolfe, Attorney, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, speaks with Crane Pomerantz, Member, Clark Hill LLP, about trends and developments related to recent health care fraud settlements, including the key drivers of False Claims Act (FCA) settlements, the Department of Justice’s February 2023 report on FCA settlements, criminal pleas, and reverse false claims cases. They also discuss AHLA...

Stephanie Haywood, Senior Vice President, Sales and Client Engagement, Ntracts, speaks with Jerry Lear, Chief Internal Audit/ERM Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health, and Ken Zeko, Principal Advisor, Hall Render Advisory Services, about steps health care organizations can take to conduct a thorough risk assessment in relation to Stark and Anti-Kickback compliance. They discuss how to use DOJ complian...

Health care real estate leasing and space sharing arrangements present thorny legal and valuation issues that must be dealt with carefully to maintain compliant arrangements. Mike Vetter, Partner, HMS Valuation Partners, speaks with Joel Swider, Attorney, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, about some of the legal and valuation issues surrounding these arrangements. They discuss the differen...

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...

Andrea Ferrari, Principal and General Counsel, Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting, speaks with Michael Lemell, Director of Value-Based Care Contracting, AdventHealth, and Kristen McDermott Woodrum, Partner, McGuireWoods, about trends and developments pertaining to transactions in value-based care. They discuss the meaning of value-based care, the types of health care stakeholders that are currently pa...

In this series from AHLA’s Early Career Professionals Council, health law professionals share their career paths, what they wish they had known as students, and what a typical day in their job looks like. In this episode, Alé Dalton, Associate, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, speaks with Masha Goodman-Khan, Director, Compliance and Legal Operations, Vericel. Masha talks about how her career traj...

In the quest for value, what is the actual cost of health care delivery transformation, and what investments must health care providers, payers, and other stakeholders make to effectively integrate social determinants of health across the health care system? Leah Mayo, Interim Assistant Dean of Community Engagement and Healthy Equity, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carol...

Rob Gerberry, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Summa Health, explores the role Chief Human Resources Officers play in helping health care systems navigate workforce issues and implement strategies that retain and attract workforces. Some of these issues include inflationary pressures around labor and temporary staffing costs, remote work, clinical versus non-clinical workforce standards...

On June 1, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Schutte v. SuperValu, Inc. , held that the mental state required by the False Claims Act (FCA) refers to the defendant’s actual knowledge and subjective beliefs about the truth of claims for payment submitted to federal payers. The decision overturns the growing body of case law precluding FCA liability when a defendant’s interpretation of the applicable law w...

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...

Chip Hutzler, Partner, HMS Valuation Partners, speaks with Robert Homchick, Davis Wright Tremaine, John Kelly, Barnes & Thornburg, and Kim Harvey Looney, K&L Gates, about some of the special considerations facing private equity in health care. They discuss the regulatory environment private equity faces, diligence concerns, and managing risk. Robert, John, and Kim spoke about this topic at...

In this series from AHLA’s Early Career Professionals Council, health law professionals share their career paths, what they wish they had known as students, and what a typical day in their job looks like. In this episode, Rob Yates, Managing Consultant, Berkeley Research Group, speaks with Jennifer Michael, Member, Bass Berry & Sims PLC. Jennifer talks about her role as a health care regulator...

Jon Moore, Chief Risk Officer and Senior Vice President of Consulting Services, Clearwater, speaks with Vanessa Burrows, Counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and Wendi Wright, Senior Director of Privacy & Data Protection, Intuitive Surgical, about why HIPAA must be considered within the scope of M&A due diligence and what the diligence process looks like. They discuss documentation...

Sarah Swank, Counsel, Nixon Peabody LLP, speaks with Robyn Diaz, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and David Rowan, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Governance Officer, Cleveland Clinic, about issues related to health care in the international arena. They discuss what it means to be an “international organization,” international outreach and co...

Kate Taylor, Senior Manager, ECG Management Consultants, speaks with Holley Lutz, Partner, Dentons, and Bruce Toppin, Chief Legal Officer, North Mississippi Health Services, about the current legal landscape surrounding Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). They discuss industry imperatives for change with regards to APPs, the relationship between independent physicians and hospital-employed APPs, a...

In the second episode of this two-part series that delves into the perspectives of those at the front lines of HIPAA liability, Shalyn Watkins, Associate, Vedder Price, speaks with Jon Moore, Chief Risk Officer and Senior Vice President of Consulting Services, Clearwater, about some of the anticipated changes to HIPAA in 2023. They discuss what these changes mean, recent OCR enforcement actions, a...

In the first episode of this two-part series that delves into the perspectives of those at the front lines of HIPAA liability, Andrew Sylora, Associate, Vedder Price, speaks with Anthony Archer, Chief Privacy Officer, Scan Health Plan, about the difficulties of maintaining HIPAA compliance in a complex workforce. They discuss case studies of HIPAA breaches that have occurred at health plans, strat...

Michael Fine, Partner, Wyatt Tarrant & Combs LLP, and Robin Cantor, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group, discuss how health care organizations can incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles into their corporate strategies, with a focus on environmental principles. They cover why health care organizations are expanding their focus on environmental initiatives, opt...

In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, AHLA has partnered with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association to highlight the career journeys of four Asian American attorneys. They discuss how they came to practice in health law, some of the major issues they are dealing with in their current roles, their experiences as Asian Americans in the health law profession, a...

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...