McDermott Will & Schulte Health Law Podcast

Bernadette M. Broccolo and Lisa Schmitz Mazur, McDermott partners and Editors-in-Chief and co-authors of The Law of Digital Health, delve into how innovations like telemedicine and personal engagement tools are shifting the patient-provider relationship and transforming the health care sector.

Executive compensation is always an important topic for the board, made even more critical by the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and recent governance trends. We're joined by two of the leading voices on executive compensation practices in health care: Tim Cotter of Sullivan, Cotter and Associates, and McDermott partner Ralph DeJong.

McDermott partners Bernadette M. Broccolo and Lisa Schmitz Mazur discuss their new book, The Law of Digital Health, published by AHLA. The book is designed to provide business leaders and their key advisors with the knowledge and insight they need to grow and sustain successful digital health initiatives within a complex legal and regulatory landscape.

Director engagement is perhaps the most important indicator of a board's effectiveness and efficiency, yet governance committees often struggle with how best to educate their board members about the essential traits of engagement. Many boards may find value in working with a professional coach to address this and other issues that could be barriers to high performance. To help us better understand...

Listen to McDermott's Digital Health Thought Leaders Share Their Perspectives on the proliferation of digital devices and what it means to the marketplace today.

When it comes to preventing corporate scandals, regulators typically look to the board as the first line of defense. This is especially the case in the nonprofit sector, where there is no market factor to provide additional oversight and protection. It is in this context that the board's audit committee provides particular value. Amongst its many roles is the general expectation that it will monit...

The constant cycle of acquisitions, affiliations and divestitures is continually reshaping the health care industry. However, the factors that prompted M&A deals in the past are not necessarily the same factors that drive today's deals. This poses new challenges for governing boards as they work to apply the proper amount of oversight to M&A opportunities. To help us better understand the latest M...

Michael Peregrine continues the conversation with Ken Kaufman, managing director and chair of Kaufman Hall, about how the forces of "business disruption" are beginning to affect health care. As Ken noted last month, we are starting to see signs of disruption in health care, with the growth of retail clinics, telemedicine, genomics and other new models and technology. The big question remains wheth...

Michael Peregrine and Ken Kaufman, chair of Kaufman Hall, discuss an increasingly important aspect of the board's oversight duty: the unique concept of business disruption and the expectation that the health care board will timely identify, and react to warning signs of such disruption.

Michael Peregrine and McDermott health care restructuring partner Bill Smith discuss a critical aspect of the board's oversight duties: the expectation that the board be able to promptly identify and react to warning signs of organizational or financial distress.

In addition to being a CEO's nightmare, a dysfunctional board can threaten an organization's success and survival. Michael Peregrine and guest Dr. David Nygren discuss types of board dysfunction, including the dreaded "nice board," as well as how to diagnose the underlying issues and manage the subsequent changes required.

A critical, but often overlooked, aspect of the board's duty of care is its obligation to monitor prevailing economic conditions' impact on the health care industry. In particular, monitoring jobs data can provide tremendous insight into specific areas of growth and decline within the health care sector and inform the strategy of the board and its strategic planning, finance and human resources co...

Establishing CEO compensation is a complex, highly-regulated exercise that can send a strong message about an organization's culture and goals. In this episode, Michael Peregrine hosts a wide-ranging discussion of this evolving boardroom concern with two of the leading voices on executive compensation trends and practices in health care, Ralph DeJong, a McDermott executive compensation and benefit...

With health care at the top of the new administration's to-do list, one thing is certain: change is afoot. In this episode, Michael Peregrine interviews Eric Zimmerman, a Washington-based McDermott partner, and Chip Falahee, Senior Vice President for Legal and Legislative Affairs at Bronson Healthcare Group, to discuss how boards can prepare for the changes ahead – particularly with regard to the...