AHLA Corporate Practice of Medicine: A Fifty State Survey (Non-Members)

Andrew G. Jack is an Associate at Jones Day in Columbus, Ohio. He focuses his practice on the representation of clients in the health care industry in connection with regulatory and transactional matters, including developing hospital- physician alignment strategies; guiding clients through strategic transactions, including hospital mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures; working with health care providers to develop clinically integrated provider networks and accountable care organizations; structuring integrated delivery system transactions; and counseling clients on health care fraud and abuse issues.

Additionally, Drew works with clients in the life sciences industry in connection with multijurisdictional clinical trials and research collaborations. Drew currently serves as a Vice Chair with the Transactions Affinity Group for the AHLA's Business Law and Governance Practice Group.

Glenn P. Prives is an attorney with McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's national Health Care Practice Group. He represents a range of health care clients, including hospitals and health systems (nonprofit and for-profit), academic medical centers, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies, ancillary service providers, laboratories, medical technology companies, telemedicine companies, medical billing companies, dental groups, skilled nursing facilities, behavioral health centers, health care management companies, and investment funds and private equity firms specializing in health care. He has experience in the areas of hospital-physician alignment, mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, alliances, strategic transactions, joint ventures, recruitment matters, numerous types of contractual agreements, health care information technology, integrated delivery systems (population health), and clinical integration matters. He also has counseled clients on a variety of health care regulatory matters, including Stark, Anti- Kickback, state self-referral laws, fraud and abuse, HIPAA, health care reform, Medicare and Medicaid issues, coverage and overpayment issues, compliance, regulatory and due diligence reviews, licensure and certification issues, the corporate practice of medicine, and fee-splitting laws.

Jed A. Roher is a shareholder with Godfrey & Kahn SC, located in Madison, Wisconsin. Jed helps traditional and emerging participants in the health care industry understand, evaluate, and implement transactions in a complex regulatory environment. In particular, Jed guides large-scale projects including hospital acquisitions, affiliations, member substitutions, joint ventures, and venture investments, and provides outside general counsel to stand-alone/independent and private-equity backed dentists and other providers, health technology companies, and emerging companies and their investors, assisting with equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, formation, technology development, product commercialization, exit strategies, and ongoing corporate matters.

Jed is a proud member of the American Health Lawyers Association, and the Chair of the Transactions Affinity Group of the Business Law and Governance Practice Group.

Joel C. Rush is a Partner in McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He has a national practice that focuses on transactional and health care regulatory matters affecting health care companies, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic affiliations, and joint ventures. Joel serves principally as counsel to private equity funds, public and private companies, physician practices, hospitals, and strategic investors in connection with a wide range of transactional, regulatory and corporate structure and governance matters. Joel is able to leverage his transactional background and deep health regulatory experience to provide seamless legal counsel regarding the complex strategic and operational issues facing health care providers and investors.

Kelsey Anderson is an attorney with Godfrey & Kahn SC, located in Madison, Wisconsin. Kelsey practices in the Corporate Law and Health Care Practice Group and represents hospitals and health systems, physician groups, health care associations and cooperatives, clinical laboratories, and other health care providers and suppliers. Kelsey's practice focuses primarily on assisting clients with health care regulatory issues, such as Medicare and Medicaid compliance, enrollment and payment issues, Physician Self-Referral (Stark), Anti-Kickback Statute, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance, telehealth, and state licensing matters.

Kelsey has been a member of the American Health Lawyers Association since 2017, and presently serves on the Board of the State Bar of Wisconsin Health Law Section.

Carole M. Becker is an Associate at McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Carole's practice focuses on regulatory and transactional health care matters. She conducts due diligence to support traditional and non-traditional health care clients as they grow and innovate within the sector. She also assists clients with respect to state licensure issues, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, and other federal and state legal, regulatory, and business issues affecting health care providers.

During law school, Carole served as a legal extern at a large hospital system and was the Executive Managing Editor of the University of Florida's Journal of Law and Public Policy. Prior to entering law school, she served as the Regional Manager of Operations for a Florida based not-for-profit health care clinic.

Scott Bennett is a Partner at Coppersmith Brockelman PLC in Phoenix, Arizona. Scott advises hospitals and other health care providers regarding compliance with the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and other fraud and abuse laws; represents providers in connection with internal investigations and litigation including cases under the False Claims Act; and counsels clients regarding information security and data breaches. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/ United States (CIPP/US) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Elise Dunitz Brennan is a Partner in Conner and Winters. She has practiced health care law for over 30 years. Her practice concentrates on the general representation of health care systems, including hospitals, pharmaceutical and device companies, and long-term care facilities. She specializes in operational and regulatory support, compliance planning, mergers and acquisitions, HIPAA, billing issues, Medicare, Anti-Kickback and Stark, EMTALA, managed care, physician recruitment, physician medical staff issues, licensure, Certificate of Need and Change of Ownership, peer review hearings, fraud and abuse, risk management, and new service development. Recently, her practice has included health care provider integration initiatives such as ACOs, service line collaborations and non-clinical joint ventures, and health care provider and payer contracting issues.

Elise also serves as an Arbitrator on the Commercial and Healthcare Panel of the American Arbitration Association and as an Arbitrator, Mediator, and Trainer for the American Health Lawyers Association. Chambers USA, the leading evaluator of attorneys, referred to her as "an outstanding healthcare lawyer with a strong suit in the representation of institutions and transactions." She is the first Oklahoma attorney elected as a Fellow of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Matthew M. Brohm is a Partner in Arnall Golden Gregory LLP.  His legal practice focuses on corporate transactions in the health care industry. He has advised on hundreds of health care transactions involving private equity firms, health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, home health agencies, behavioral health companies, physician practice management platforms, laboratories, pharmacies, and a wide variety of other providers. He has extensive experience leading complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, divestitures, joint ventures, affiliations, co-management arrangements, and investments at all stages of the company's life cycle. He also regularly structures unique joint ventures and transactions requiring complex structures to address the changing health care regulatory and commercial landscapes.

Stacey L. Callaghan is an Associate with Akerman LLP. She concentrates her practice on transactional and business issues affecting health care providers. Stacey assists health systems, hospitals, physician organizations, and private equity clients in corporate governance and transactions, fraud and abuse issues, and functional and regulatory considerations related to telehealth, as well as privacy matters and HIPAA compliance. She also counsels clients on business disputes, with an emphasis on contract law and covenants not to compete.

Brad Cave is a Partner in the Cheyenne, Wyoming office of Holland & Hart LLP, where he has practiced since 1990. Brad’s practice centers on advising and representing employers in a wide variety of employment matters, and in advising public and private sector hospitals, clinics, and medical practices regarding compliance with federal and state health law and regulations.

Brad is a 1988 graduate of the George Washington University Law School, and a 1985 graduate of the University of Wyoming. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, and the author of Wyoming chapters in this survey and in an upcoming AHLA survey of state laws on opioids. He is also the editor of the monthly Wyoming Employment Law Letter and a frequent speaker on employment law topics. He was inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2009, as the College's first Wyoming member. He has also been included in Chambers USA for Labor and Employment and Best Lawyers in America's list of top employment lawyers since 2003, and has been recognized as one of Wyoming's Super Lawyers since 2008.

Ali Deatherage is an Associate in the Healthcare Practice at Bass Berry & Sims and provides health care regulatory and transactional counsel as it relates to mergers and acquisitions, compliance, and operational matters. Ali earned her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law and a BA in English from the University of Tennessee.

Dana Dombey is a Partner in McDermott Will & Emery LLP. She has a national practice focused on the business aspects of health care law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and contractual arrangements. She represents private equity funds, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, and other strategic investors in connection with a wide range of transactional, corporate, and governance matters. Dana also regularly advises clients with respect to state licensure issues, compliance, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, corporate practice of medicine laws, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and other federal and state legal, regulatory, and business issues affecting health care providers. Within that framework, she has assisted clients in the development of financial arrangements and transaction structures that comply with applicable state and federal requirements.

Richard Eiler is an Associate in the Healthcare Practice at Bass Berry & Sims. He assists health care clients in operational, compliance, and transactional matters. He works with a range of the firm's health care clients, including urgent care centers, behavioral health centers, medical staffing companies, and others. Richard also assists clients with regulatory issues involving alternative payment models, including federal bundled payment and service delivery models. In addition, Richard counsels clients with respect to health care fraud and abuse and compliance issues related to the federal Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as on similar state laws with respect to the corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting.

Maura Fleming is Of Counsel with Holland & Hart LLP. She has represented and advised both public and private companies in every stage of the corporate life cycle, from initial company formation, corporate governance, and technology transactions to mergers and acquisitions and public offerings. Maura has experience with venture capital and private equity firms and investors and has provided both company-side and investor-side representation in venture capital financings. Maura is a 2007 graduate of the Santa Clara University School of Law, California.

Arthur J. Fried is a Member of Epstein Becker Green in the firm’s New York office. He represents all types of health care providers, including academic medical centers, hospitals, faculty practices, behavioral health and home care entities, diagnostic laboratories, physicians, and physician groups. He advises hospitals, academic medical centers, and other providers in such areas as strategic health system development, managed care and payment reform, physician integration, health care reform, medical staff matters, and governance. He was General Counsel and Senior Vice President at a large teaching hospital, and Vice President for Legal and Regulatory Affairs at a major nonprofit health system.

Megan R. George is an attorney with McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's national Health Care Practice Group. She represents a range of health care clients, including hospitals and health systems (nonprofit and for-profit), academic medical centers, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies, laboratories, medical technology companies, telemedicine companies, medical billing companies, skilled nursing facilities, and health care management companies.

Megan has experience in the areas of hospital administration, affiliations, strategic transactions, foundations, joint ventures, physician recruitment matters, numerous types of contractual agreements, health care information technology, clinical trial agreements, host-site facility agreements, group purchasing contracts, equipment leases, commercial property leases, asset purchase agreements, marketing and promotional agreements, and confidentiality agreements. She also has counseled clients on a variety of health care regulatory matters, including Stark, Anti-Kickback, fraud and abuse, HIPAA, licensure and certification issues, and the corporate practice of medicine.

Paulina Grabczak is an Associate in Epstein Becker Green’s Newark office. She advises on federal and state health care fraud and abuse laws and assists with all aspects of transactional regulatory health care due diligence.

Maleaka Guice is an Associate in the Healthcare Practice at Bass Berry & Sims and provides health care regulatory counsel as it relates to compliance, operational, and transactional matters. Maleaka served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Jill Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Honorable Amy Totenberg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She earned her law degree from Emory University School of Law and a BA in political science from the University of Mississippi.

Jesse D. Hale is a lawyer with Sutin Thayer & Browne. He practices primarily in the areas of health law, real estate, and commercial litigation. Jesse is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law. As a member of Sutin’s health law team, Jesse represents a variety of health care providers, from small practices and dental offices to hospitals, nursing homes, and FQHCs. He advises and represents health care clients in regulatory and compliance matters, fraud and abuse, False Claims Act (FCA) and New Mexico Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (FATA) matters and litigation, government investigations, billing and payment issues, payer auditing, credentialing, licensing, contract formation, and purchasing and procurement.

M. Brian Hall IV is an Associate with McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He counsels clients in the health care industry on a full range of transactional and regulatory issues. He provides counseling and advice to hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, pharmacies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and a variety of other health care companies in complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic affiliations, and related integration issues. Brian's regulatory practice focuses on fraud and abuse issues arising under the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute, reimbursement and payment reform issues, and operational and compliance issues.

Gabriel Hamilton is an Associate with Holland & Hart LLP. He is a business attorney who assists clients in the insurance and health care industries with business transactions, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance. Gabe is a member of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel, the Idaho Insurance Council, and the National Association of Corporate Directors. Gabe is a 2008 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where he earned high honors and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. He also served as an associate editor of the Texas Law Review.

Dawn R. Helak is a Partner in McDermott Will & Emery LLP. She provides counseling and advice to hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers (AMCs), private equity firms and their portfolio companies, post/sub-acute providers, trade associations and coalitions, physician practices, and other public and private health care companies in a variety of complex transactions and health regulatory compliance matters. Dawn has experience in all aspects of health care transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic affiliations. Dawn focuses her regulatory practice on advising clients with respect to federal and state health care fraud and abuse compliance, reimbursement issues, and licensure and operational matters.

Jennifer L. Hilliard is Of Counsel with Arnall Golden Gregory LLP. She focuses her practice on long-term care and aging services issues generally. She has extensive experience with nursing home regulatory matters, compliance, and operations. Additionally, she has significant experience with federal public policy and government affairs in such related areas as Medicare and Medicaid regulation, home health and hospice regulation, DEA controlled substances regulation, OSHA and other labor and employment issues affecting aging services providers, and federal nonprofit tax issues.

Prior to joining AGG, she Hilliard served for over 18 years in a variety of legal and advocacy-related capacities at LeadingAge, a Washington, DC based trade association for nonprofit long-term care and aging services providers.

Breanne L. Hitchen is an Associate with Jones Day. She focuses her practice on the representation of health care and life sciences companies. She has represented hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and other health care providers. Breanne has defended health care clients in investigations and litigation brought by federal agencies and qui tam whistleblowers. She also has experience advising clients on regulatory compliance regulations, including false claims, fraud and abuse, and billing matters. She has worked with clients engaged in a variety of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other affiliations. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.

Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. is an Associate with McDermott Will & Emery LLP. He focuses his practice on transactional and regulatory counseling for clients in the health care industry, as well as advises clients on the legal, regulatory, and compliance aspects of digital health. Prior to joining McDermott, Marshall was an Associate in the health care and life sciences practice group of a national law firm. He earned his law degree with a health law concentration and, while in law school at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, served as senior articles editor of the Journal of Healthcare Law and Policy and as captain of the National Trial Team.

Ellen L. Janos is a Member of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC. She utilizes her in-depth knowledge of health care regulation to assist clients with government audits and investigations, M&A and financing transactions, and corporate compliance activities. She also provides strategic advice to traditional health care providers, investors, and start-ups on telehealth initiatives as well as the traditional practice of medicine across multiple states. Ellen often comments on developments in telehealth, HIPAA, and the corporate practice of medicine.

As an assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ellen represented state agencies responsible for health care reimbursement, licensing, and Medicaid fraud prosecutions. She has successfully argued two cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Amanda Jester is a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP and focuses her practice on physician practice management arrangements and transactions, as well as health care private equity. She is a recognized health care practitioner by Chambers USA in Texas for 2019.

David H. Johnson is a lawyer with Sutin Thayer & Browne. He represents health care providers throughout New Mexico in regulatory, operational, transactional, fraud and abuse, and litigation matters. His clients include hospitals, medical groups, community clinics, clinical laboratories, home care and long term care organizations, as well as individual health care professionals. Active in a variety of professional groups, David is a current member and past chair of the American Bar Association Health Law Section and is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is also past chair of the State Bar Health Law Section and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Since 2003, he has been a member of the Board of the New Mexico Monitored Treatment Program, a nonprofit organization offering services to impaired health care providers. David is listed in Best Lawyers in America, Top Rated Lawyers in New Mexico, and Southwest Super Lawyers, and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. For 2015 he was selected as New Mexico Lawyer of the Year for Health Law by Best Lawyers.

Robert J. Johnston is a lawyer with Sutin Thayer & Browne and a member of the firm's commercial group. His practice concentrates on business and corporate law, liquor licensing, and New Mexico tax law, including corporate income tax, sales and use (gross receipts) tax, property tax, and public finance. Robert has represented businesses before the New Mexico Administrative Hearings Office in tax protest proceedings, and he has successfully defended companies in litigated matters ranging in subject matter from land-use disputes to oil-field injury and wrongful death. During law school, Robert represented individuals in tax and employment matters as a student lawyer in the UNM Business and Tax Clinic. Robert also served as a representative on the UNM Student Bar Association, as a Lieutenant Governor for the American Bar Association's Law Student Division, and as a volunteer with the UNM Mexican American Law Student Association.

Jeffrey L. Kapp is a Partner in Jones Day. He practices in the area of health care transactions and has more than 25 years of experience in M&A and various types of unique and innovative joint ventures, affiliations, and outsourcing transactions. He represents hospitals and health systems in strategic transactions, such as hospital mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and contractual arrangements, including transactions involving ambulatory surgery centers, hospice and home health services, and federally qualified health centers. Jeff represents hospitals and health systems in a variety of physician contracting matters, including co-management, recruitment, employment, medical director, and hospital-based physician agreements. He also has represented these clients regarding significant business functions, such as the negotiation of strategic supply management, equipment leasing, and consulting agreements.

John W. Kaveney is an attorney with McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's national Health Care Practice Group. He represents a range of health care clients, including hospitals and health systems (nonprofit and for-profit), academic medical centers, physician groups, individual physicians, ambulatory surgery centers, ancillary service providers, medical billing companies, skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation facilities, behavioral health centers, and pharmacies. His practice in the health care field includes work on Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement matters before the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services and the Provider Reimbursement Review Board as well as work on corporate compliance and HIPAA compliance matters, health care regulatory matters, civil litigation, and professional licensing matters.

Richard G. Korman is Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Avera Health, located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.. Mr. Korman is responsible for all legal, public policy, compliance, government relations, internal audit, insurance and risk management activities for Avera. Avera is the Catholic health ministry of the Benedictine Sisters of Yankton, SD and the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sisters of Aberdeen, SD. Avera delivers health care services through more than 350 locations in a five-state region made up of South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota.

Mr. Korman graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor’s degree in political science and from William Mitchell College of Law with a law degree. He is admitted to the South Dakota Bar, the Minnesota Bar and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, where he is currently on the planning committee for the annual In-House Counsel Program. He has spoken at numerous regional and national conferences related to healthcare law and compliance issues.

Kristin E. Laubach is an Associate with Akerman LLP. She focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, business entity formation, corporate governance matters, and antitrust counseling for clients in the health care industry. In addition, Kristin counsels clients on a variety of regulatory compliance matters related to HIPAA, the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, complex state licensure issues, and Medicare reimbursement.

Leonard Lipsky is a Member of Epstein Becker Green in the firm's New York office. He provides strategic advice to health care providers and investors in the rapidly changing health care marketplace in both regulatory and transactional matters. He advises investors in health care businesses on compliance with the corporate practice of medicine and related structuring options and considerations. He was named to the New York Metro Rising Stars list (2013 to 2018) in the area of Health Care, and in 2017 and 2018, was recommended by The Legal 500 United States in the area of Healthcare: Health Insurers.

Robert Low is Of Counsel with Holland & Hart LLP. He is experienced in drafting and negotiating telecommunications agreements involving data transport and the provision of video and digital voice services. He acts as outside counsel for one of the nation's largest cable operators. Clients also rely on him to draft, negotiate, and close on complex licensing and commercial transactions and agreements.

Robert also focuses his practice in the health care arena. He assists corporate and health care industry clients in understanding and complying with all aspects of the complex, ever-changing web of federal and state health care legislation, policies, and rules. Typical issues on which he advises and assists his clients include compliance with Stark, Anti-Kickback, HIPAA, FDA, HITECH, and antitrust laws and regulations. He also drafts and advises on all types of health care contracts and arrangements relating to individual and institutional providers, hospitals, physicians, and other health care actors and entities, including Business Associate Agreements, electronic health records agreements, acquisitions, mergers, and practice formations.

Carrie Noonan is a paralegal and Practice Group Coordinator with Godfrey & Kahn SC, located in Madison, Wisconsin. She works with the Health Care Practice Group in strategic growth and planning and analysis, report preparations, communications, and implementation of practice group initiatives. Carrie is instrumental in the development and implementation of the practice group's strategic plan. Carrie handles topic research, presentations, and outlines preparation for the practice group. Carrie manages special projects, both internally and with peer departments such as the development and implementation of a contract management database.

Cassandra L. Paolillo is an Associate with Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC. Her practice primarily involves advising health care clients on transactional and regulatory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, and general contracting. Throughout her career, Cassie has worked with providers, payers, and individual patients, so she understands the unique challenges facing clients in the ever-changing health care landscape.

Prior to joining Mintz, Cassie worked as in-house counsel at a national senior living company. There she advised the business on matters related to state and federal health care regulations, physician arrangements, reimbursement, fraud and abuse, and HIPAA/privacy. She also oversaw all contracting matters for the company's skilled nursing division.

Tristan A. Potter-Strait is an Associate in Epstein Becker Green's Newark office. She focuses her practice on such areas as fraud and abuse, compliance, transactional regulatory health care due diligence, and government investigations.

Brianna Powell is an Associate in the Healthcare Practice at Bass Berry & Sims and provides counsel to a range of clients, including hospital systems, physician groups, and other health care providers in the areas of health care fraud and abuse, health care contracting, regulatory, and operational matters, as well as health care mergers and acquisitions.

Brianna served as a law clerk to the Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and to the Honorable Bernice Bouie Donald for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Brianna earned her law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law and a BS in psychology and Spanish from Loyola University.

Kathleen M. Premo is a Member of Epstein Becker Green in the firm’s St. Petersburg office. She advises a full spectrum of health care industry service providers and businesses, including such risk-bearing organizations as medical service organizations (MSOs), independent practice associations (IPAs), accountable care organizations (ACOs), physician organizations and large medical groups, hospitalist and post-acute providers (including hospices, nursing homes, and home health agencies), specialty care networks, ambulatory care facilities, management companies, and private equity specializing in health care companies, among others. She was General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of a multi-state Medicare Advantage MSO and Medical Group.

Elena M. Quattrone is an Associate in Epstein Becker Green's New York office. She assists health care clients in contracting for corporate formation, mergers, acquisitions, and various other business transactions.

Russell C. Ramzel is a Partner in Conner & Winters. He focuses primarily on health care regulatory compliance and transactional matters. He represents a range of clients in the health care industry, including hospital systems, psychiatric hospitals, long-term care facilities, pharmacies, residential child care facilities, and suppliers of health care technologies and services. He works with clients to navigate agency licensure requirements, including residential child care licensing. He regularly advises clients concerning Certificate of Need, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, HIPAA, CHOWs, mergers and acquisitions, electronic health records (EHR) and meaningful use, and fraud and abuse issues such as Anti-Kickback and Stark.

Chelsea Rogers is an Associate with McDermott Will & Emery LLP. She focuses her practice on representing private equity funds, strategic investors, ambulatory surgery centers, and physician practices in a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. Chelsea has assisted clients in connection with numerous transactions, including management and professional service arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. She also regularly advises clients with respect to state licensure issues, corporate practice of medicine laws, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and other federal and state legal, regulatory, and business issues affecting health care providers.

Jane Rugg is an Associate with Husch Blackwell. She navigates clients through complex health care regulations, focusing on post-acute care providers. She also has experience in transactional real estate matters. Jane graduated summa cum laude from Lehigh University, where she received both her bachelor's and master's degrees. She then earned her JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

Jane enjoys riding her horse, Savannah, and hiking with her husband and three dogs.

Kevin J. Ryan is a Member of Epstein Becker Green in the firm's Chicago office, where he advises for-profit and not- for-profit health care clients on transactions and regulatory matters, including licensing laws, HIPAA privacy requirements, and state and federal administrative matters. He was recommended by The Legal 500 United States (2016 to 2018) in the M&A—Middle-Market category, and he has been recognized by Leading Lawyers as a top Illinois lawyer in the area of Health Law (2003 to 2019). He was the Director of Planning for a community hospital in suburban Chicago, and he also served for six years as General Counsel for a national preferred provider organization located in Chicago.

Elizabeth Scarola is an Associate in Epstein Becker Green's St. Petersburg office. In addition to her work on strategic, operational, and legal projects for a large, statewide clinically integrated network of hospitals and providers, she has hands-on scientific research experience. She advises hospital, provider, pharmaceutical, and medical device manufacturer clients on such federal and state regulatory matters as the Anti-Kickback Statute, self-referral laws, HIPAA compliance, federal and private payer issues (including bundled payments), and risk-based contracting.

Shine Chen Schattgen is an Associate Counsel at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Previously, she was a health care Associate at Bass Berry & Sims and prior to that, at Ropes & Gray. While in private practice, Shine counseled health care clients on a range of operational, regulatory, and transactional matters. She has experience working with various health care institutions, including academic medical centers, hospitals, and pharmaceutical and life sciences companies.

Shine earned her law degree from Duke University School of Law and a BA in neuroscience and political science from Wellesley College.

Tricia Shackelford is the founder and managing member of Shackelford Law Office, a boutique firm that focuses on all aspects of health law. Tricia’s clients have included hospitals, hospital systems, hospice providers, rural health clinics, practice management companies, primary care centers, ambulatory surgery centers, community health centers, public health departments, home health agencies, nursing homes, durable medical equipment companies, pharmaceutical marketing companies, and individual providers (physicians, advanced practice nurse practitioners (APRNs), physician assistants, certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs), physical therapists, and dentists).

Tricia is the past Chair of the Health Law Section of the Fayette County Bar Association and currently serves on the Board for the Lexington Medical Society Alliance as its Vice President. She has published numerous legal articles, including co-authoring a chapter of the Kentucky Health Law Handbook, and has been a frequent lecturer on a wide range of health law topics. Tricia resides in Lexington with her two children, Brennan and Beau.

Parampreet Singh is an attorney with McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's national Health Care Practice Group. He represents a variety of health care clients, including physicians, hospitals, health care systems (nonprofit and for-profit), academic medical centers, home health agencies, and pharmacies. His practice in the field of health care includes work on hospital reimbursement matters before the state departments of health and other regulatory agencies, as well as health care regulatory matters, contractual agreements, civil litigation, and facility licensing matters.

Parampreet also has experience defending licensed medical professionals against claims of malpractice and disciplinary matters.

Melissa A. Soliz is a Partner at Coppersmith Brockelman PLC in Phoenix, Arizona. The focus of her regulatory health care practice is on federal and state confidentiality laws (with an emphasis on 42 C.F.R. Part 2), data sharing for health information exchange and research, data breach reporting, regulatory compliance and contracting for human subjects research, Arizona licensing and scope of practice requirements, and other state and federal regulatory requirements applicable to health care organizations.

Cori Casey Turner is a Partner on the Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Education team at Husch Blackwell where she has practiced since 2002. Cori represents various types of health care providers with a special focus on children’s hospitals and pediatric providers. She routinely advises clients on regulatory compliance and reimbursement/repayment matters in addition to contractual relationships and complex strategic affiliations.

Cori earned her JD with distinction from The University of Iowa College of Law where she was a Merit Scholar and the Editor-in-Chief of Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems. She earned her BA magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame. Cori is the Chair of AHLA’s Women’s Leadership Council.

Nina Wall graduated from Vanderbilt Law School in 2018. She currently works at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP as an Associate in the health care group.

Li Wang is an Associate in the Health Industry Advisory Practice Group at the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Li focuses her practice on transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions in the health care industry, and also advises on health care regulatory and compliance matters. Li holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Hofstra University and received her JD from UCLA School of Law.

Kyle D. Weber is an Associate in the Health Industry Advisory Practice Group at the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Kyle advises on regulatory and transactional matters affecting a wide range of clients in the health care industry. Kyle focuses his transactional practice on mergers, asset purchases/sales, health care joint ventures, strategic affiliations, and tax-exempt bond financing. Kyle also advises clients on a broad array of regulatory aspects in the health care industry, including federal and state fraud and abuse laws, state licensure, corporate practice of medicine, alternative payment models, and federal and state pharmacy law.

Kyle holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Alma College and an MBA and JD from Saint Louis University.

Esther Chang Weese is a Partner in the Health Industry Advisory Practice Group at the Los Angeles office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Esther represents large health systems, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, cancer treatment facilities, and other health care providers on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. In addition to her transactional experience, Esther advises clients on health care regulatory matters, including fraud and abuse, corporate practice of medicine, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and California medical information privacy laws. Esther holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Dartmouth College, a MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health and a JD from the University of Southern California—Gould School of Law.

Renee Zerbonia is an Associate on the Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Education team at Husch Blackwell. Renee's practice involves advising various types of health care providers, including pharmacies and health systems. She routinely supports clients with navigating regulatory compliance, licensing, and reimbursement matters. She also has experience with health care transactional matters.

Renee graduated from Wake Forest University with a bachelor’s degree. She then earned her JD cum laude from the Saint Louis University School of Law, where she also earned her certificate in health law.