AHLA's Speaking of Health Law

Hal Porter, Director of Consulting Services, Health IT and Digital Health, Clearwater, speaks with Nia M. Jenkins, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Head of Commercial Legal, Surescripts LLC, and Alaap B. Shah, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green PC, about how health care organizations can build a culture of compliance around data governance. They discuss some of the latest trends and d...

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 Elena Kohn, Associate Divisional Chief Legal Officer, AdventHealth. Elena talks about why health law appeals...

There have been two major government sources of funding for health care providers during the pandemic: the Provider Relief Fund and the Accelerated and Advance Payments Program. Ari Markenson, Partner, Venable LLP, and Alan Schabes, Partner, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP, provide an overview of both programs and discuss issues related to fund disbursement, how providers decided to u...

As the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) ends, Sarah Swank, Counsel, Nixon Peabody LLP, reunites three years later with two of the hospital general counsel she spoke with on the first episode of the GC Roundtable series and again one year later and two years later —Richard Korman, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, Avera Health, and David Rowan, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Governance...

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 challenges health care organizations face when attempting to comply with different regulatory frameworks and strategies for compliance related to data privacy. They discuss the HIPAA Privac...

In the third episode of this three-part series focusing on director/officer liability, Rob Gerberry, Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Summa Health, speaks with Michael Peregrine, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, about new developments in officer and director liability matters. They discuss the Delaware Chancery Court’s recent decisions in the McDonald’s Corporation stockhol...

In the second episode of this three-part series focusing on director/officer liability, Rob Gerberry, Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Summa Health, speaks with Michael Peregrine, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, about the parties that have primary jurisdiction to challenge officer and director conduct. They discuss the different tiers of parties that have an interest in of...

In the first episode of this three-part series focusing on director/officer liability, Rob Gerberry, Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Summa Health, speaks with Michael Peregrine, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, about the basic concept of officer and director liability and related standards of care. They discuss the importance of director and officer liability in today’s he...

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...

Jennifer Breuer, Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, speaks with Elinor Hiller, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP, and Amy Joseph, Partner, Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC, about changes to telehealth as the Public Health Emergency ends, including Medicare coverage of telehealth, Medicare Advantage and telehealth, the DEA’s proposed rules for controlled substances prescribing, and state lic...

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 Amy Martin, Executive Director, Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics. Amy talks about her role as a clinical e...

Andrew Mahler, Vice President, Compliance and Privacy, Clearwater, speaks with Jennifer Kreick, Partner, Haynes and Boone LLP, about how health care organizations can strengthen their cybersecurity measures in light of the 2021 HITECH Act Amendment and the HHS Office of Civil Rights’ 2022 guidance regarding recognized security practices (RSPs). They discuss some examples of RSPs and how organizati...

Kevin Siebs, Moore & Van Allen, and Derek Skoog, Principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers, discuss the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI’s) latest ACO model, ACO Realizing Equity Access and Community Health (REACH) Model. They cover reasons for provider participation in ACO REACH and common characteristics among participants, the model’s payment mechanisms, aspects of the model’s be...

Risk events associated with campus health care pose particular legal and regulatory challenges. Stacy Bratcher, Vice President & General Counsel, Cottage Health, Tom Ryan, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Jeannine Taylor, Deputy General Counsel, University of Southern California, and Andreas Meyer, Attorney-at-Law, A.J.M. Firm LLC, discuss the unique risks arising in campus health care set...

Kevin Noonan, Partner, McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, and Keith Graff, Principal, ECG Management Consultants, discuss why health care intellectual property (IP) is important for hospitals and health systems and effective strategies for managing health care IP. They talk about the different types of IP, the Bayh-Dole Act, measuring performance, patient confidentiality and HIPAA requi...

Joan M. Lebow, Partner, Edwards Maxson Mago & Macaulay LLP, and Anu Dairkee, MD, 3L, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, discuss direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising, the importance of health literacy in pharmaceutical advertising to patients, disparities created by decreased health literacy, how the pharmaceutical industry is using social media to increase the DTC advertising space, and...

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...

The SEC’s March 2022 proposed rules related to cybersecurity risk management, corporate governance, and incident disclosure by public companies may be finalized soon. Many health care organizations, especially nonprofits and private equity-backed health IT companies, may think these rules apply only to public companies and not to them. Bob Chaput, Founder and Executive Chairman, Clearwater, and Ra...

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 the inaugural episode, Alé Dalton, Associate, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, speaks with Lee Nutini, Senior Counsel, Ro. Lee advises Ro, a direct-to-patient telehealth company, on clinical...

Guillermo Beades, Partner, Frier Levitt, and Jim Tudor, Director of Coding & Billing Compliance, HealthCare Compliance Network, discuss considerations related to medical payer audits, from both the provider and payer perspectives. They cover why audits occur; how to avoid an audit; and best practices for handling post-payment audits, pre-payment audits, and pre-payment reviews. Guillermo and J...

The FTC’s proposed rule banning non-compete agreements has major implications for the health care industry. Rick Dagen, Partner, Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP and former FTC Assistant Director, speaks with Steve Vieux, Senior Counsel, Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller and former FTC attorney, and Ann Bittinger, physician employment agreement attorney at Bittinger Law Firm, about what health la...

Health equity is a civil rights issue. Drew Stevens, Senior Counsel, Caiola & Rose LLC, speaks with Dru Bhattacharya, Chief Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Officer, Banner Health, and Joelle Espinosa, Civil Rights Director, Advocate Aurora Health, about how the health law community can improve health law civil rights compliance and lower risk for hospitals and health systems. They discuss S...

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 2023. In the tenth episode, Tynan Kugler, Principal, PYA, speaks with Rebecca Schaefer, Partner, K&L Gates LLP, about research-related policy initiatives and regulatory changes to watch. They discuss the FDA’s September 20...

Jon Moore, Chief Risk Officer and Senior Vice President of Consulting Services, Clearwater, speaks with Iliana L. Peters, Shareholder, Polsinelli PC, about the steps that health care professionals can take to address cyber incidents and reduce their liability. They discuss identifying an incident response team, evidence collection and retention, engaging with IT forensics vendors, negotiating over...

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 2023. In the ninth episode, Deborah Biggs, Principal, PYA, speaks with Michael W. Peregrine, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, and Anne M. Murphy, Partner, ArentFox Schiff LLP, about some of the recent developments rela...