AHLA's Speaking of Health Law

Mitchell Brie, President and Chief Executive Officer, Empower Healthcare & Compliance Partners, speaks with Guillermo J. Beades, Partner, Frier Levitt, about how compliance and legal professionals can proactively engage with each another to address the legal and regulatory issues facing the health care industry. They share their own real-world experiences navigating the nexus between health care legal and compliance across a range of issues, from risk to artificial intelligence to private...

Banee Pachuca, Partner, Winston Taylor, and Taryn Nasr, Director, VMG Health, explore the constantly evolving regulatory landscape impacting joint ventures. They catch up on recent legal developments and enforcement actions affecting joint ventures, including the California AG’s enforcement of corporate practice of medicine laws, Oregon's update to its health care notification statute, and CMS’ enrollment moratorium that paused initial Medicare applications for new hospice providers and home ...

Psychedelic therapy is increasingly becoming a part of clinical decision making, as evidenced by Compass Pathways’ announcement earlier this year of successful trial results for COMP360 psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Kimberly Chew, Senior Counsel, Husch Blackwell LLP, and L. Alison McInnes, MD, MS, Director of Psychedelic Medicine, Mindful Health Solutions, discuss the clinical realities and legal gray zones of psychedelic therapies as they move from controlled trials into rea...

For years, health care leaders have focused on value-based reimbursement. Increasingly, the real challenge isn’t simply how health care organizations get paid, but how they organize physicians and operations to perform successfully in a value-based environment. Randy Biernat, Partner, Forvis Mazars, speaks with Jim Wiehl, Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP, about how health care organizations can use value-based enterprises as physician alignment frameworks. They discuss the various strategic...

Lawyers are often involved in risk mitigation discussions or are the first line of communication when hospitals and health systems face adverse events. John Saran, Partner, Holland & Knight LLP, speaks with Toby Braun, Founder and Managing Partner, American Special Investigative Group, about why incident management is so important for hospitals and health systems. Citing real-world examples, they discuss the various cyber and physical security threats facing hospitals and health systems a...