AHLA's Speaking of Health Law

By American Health Law AssociationEducation

AHLA's Speaking of Health Law episodes

July 31 Information Blocking Enforcement on the Horizon: Compliance Under the 21st Century Cures Act
HHS has been implementing rulemaking related to information blocking since the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act a decade ago, and providers have taken note. Dennis Sapien-Pangindian, Founding Attorney, DSP Advocates PC, and Ammon Fillmore, Associate Chief Legal Officer for Information & Technology, AdventHealth, discuss what information blocking is and why it has become a real enforcement issue, the legal framework and compliance risks, the status of OIG enforcement, provider implementation and operational considerations, and compliance readiness. Dennis wrote an AHLA Briefing on this topic. From AHLA’s Fraud and Abuse Practice Group.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VncxN4TXIgI
Read Dennis’ Briefing: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/content-library/publications/briefings/4e306a62-dd7b-449d-b143-b64a163a9c5d/Information-Blocking-Enforcement-on-the-Horizon-Co
Learn more about AHLA’s Fraud and Abuse Practice Group: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/practice-groups/practice-groups/fraud-and-abuse
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
45 min
July 28 Financing Medicaid Payments: Past, Present, and Future After the OBBBA
Catherine Kirkland, Partner, King & Spalding LLP, and Baxter Morgan, Senior Counsel, Husch Blackwell LLP, discuss the landscape of Medicaid financing a year after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, now known as the Working Families Tax Cut Act. They cover provider taxes and impending cuts, the hold harmless rule and litigation involving Florida and Texas, and potential alternative sources of Medicaid financing. Catherine and Baxter spoke about this topic at AHLA’s 2026 Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues in Baltimore, MD.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbYL51fGuPQ
Learn more about AHLA’s 2026 Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/medicaremedicaid
Learn more about AHLA’s 2026 Medicare and Medicaid eProgram: https://educate.americanhealthlaw.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1759
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
40 min
July 24 Navigating the CCM and RPM Landscape
Two common types of chronic care management and monitoring are chronic condition management (CCM) and remote patient monitoring (RPM). Rachel V. Rose, Rachel V. Rose—Attorney at Law PLLC, and Pam D’Apuzzo, Managing Director, VMG Health, discuss the regulatory landscape related to CCM and RPM. They cover issues related to compliance, coding, fraud and abuse, and the Chartspan False Claims Act case. Rachel and Pam wrote an article for Health Law Weekly about this topic.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR63yMTZC5M
Read Rachel and Pam’s Health Law Weekly article: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/content-library/health-law-weekly/article/03139198-a7c2-4f3b-9ccd-6b5ac9965292/Navigating-the-CCM-and-RPM-Landscape
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
52 min
July 21 States' Renewed Focus on Corporate Practice of Medicine and Its Impact on Health Care Transactions
Jon Joseph, Partner, Christian & Barton, and Taryn Stone, Partner, Ice Miller, discuss recent developments in the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) and the effect on health care transactions. They cover different state approaches to CPOM, how the current CPOM landscape has affected diligence considerations and other factors related to health care transactions, how artificial intelligence may impact CPOM laws, issues related to deal valuations, and compliance strategies. Jon and Taryn spoke about this topic at AHLA’s 2026 Health Care Transactions conference in Nashville, TN.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcw9G1qBrbU
Learn more about AHLA’s 2026 Health Care Transactions conference: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/healthcaretransactions
Learn more about AHLA’s 2026 Health Care Transactions eProgram: https://educate.americanhealthlaw.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1779
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
40 min
July 17 One Year In: Implementing the Medicaid Provisions of the Working Families Tax Cut Act
One year after the passage of the Working Families Tax Cut Act (formerly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act), states and providers are continuing to grapple with the biggest changes to Medicaid in a generation. Harsh P. Parikh, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP, Lloyd A. Bookman, Founding Partner, Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC, and Anne Winter, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, discuss CMS’ June 1 interim final rule related to work requirements, the multi-state lawsuit challenging that rule (Massachusetts v. Oz), new eligibility and coverage requirements, CMS’ May 22 state-directed payment proposed rule, the current status of the Rural Health Transformation Program, and how states are responding to Medicaid cuts.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYIU0YqseHY
Watch Harsh, Lloyd, and Anne's episode from December 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIviLRddzI
Watch Harsh, Lloyd, and Anne's episode from September 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDYg4KZwL0M
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
58 min
July 14 Distressed Health Care Providers—Key Restructuring Issues for 2026
Bankruptcy can change the balance of power in a dispute with Medicare and Medicaid in a significant way. Augie Curtis, Counsel, Offit Kurman, and Samuel Maizel, Partner, Dentons, discuss key restructuring issues related to distressed Medicare and Medicaid providers. They cover issues related to jurisdiction, Medicare and Medicaid provider agreements during bankruptcy, offset and recoupment, and suspension of Medicare and Medicaid payments. Augie and Samuel spoke about this topic at AHLA’s 2026 Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues in Baltimore, MD.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyuAlhcZPFQ
Learn more about AHLA’s 2026 Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/medicaremedicaid
Learn more about AHLA’s 2026 Medicare and Medicaid eProgram: https://educate.americanhealthlaw.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1759
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
51 min
July 10 Audit Defense: What Health Care Providers and Attorneys Need to Know
Harriet Wall, President and CEO, LW Consulting, Inc., speaks with Rachel Hold-Weiss, Partner, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP, about the ins and outs of Unified Program Integrity Contractor (UPIC) audits and corporate integrity agreements (CIAs). They discuss how UPICs decide who to audit, what a UPIC audit appeal process is like, what providers should do within 48 hours of receiving an initial letter from a UPIC, advice for attorneys making an appeal at the administrative law judge level, and how providers can prevent UPIC audits. They also discuss how providers should respond to a CIA, how CIAs have changed over time, and how providers can avoid a CIA. Sponsored by LW Consulting.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHdKopHJpfg
Learn more about LW Consulting: https://lw-consult.com/
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
32 min
July 07 Health Care Corporate Governance: Seeking Clarity on the Role Description of the Board Chair
Rob Gerberry, Adjunct Faculty, University of Notre Dame, speaks with Michael Peregrine about challenges related to defining the role of the Board Chair. They use the controversy around the recently fired chairman of BP as a case study, discussing key takeaways for health care industry leadership and how to implement an appropriate governance construct around the role of Board Chair.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSG6gou6Fok
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
30 min
July 03 340B: Latest Trends and Developments
Greg Doggett, Counsel, Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC, and Felicity Homsted, CEO, FQHC 340B Compliance, discuss the current legal and regulatory landscape of the 340B program. They cover the intersection of 340B with the Inflation Reduction Act, concerns about the Rebate Model, pharmaceutical manufacturer restrictions and data requirements for covered entities, AbbVie’s patient definition lawsuit, state reporting requirements, and potential Congressional action.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsnP7hLbvek
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
50 min
June 30 CMMI and the Next Generation of Alternative Payment Models
Neal Shah, Shareholder, Polsinelli, speaks with Scott Strickland, Attorney, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, about what the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has been doing in the health care space. They discuss examples of some of the more prominent CMMI models, the distinction between CMMI models and traditional CMS models, health care industry responses to CMMI models, what the next generation of CMMI models looks like, and the different approaches that CMMI has taken regarding provider payment obligations. Scott co-authored an article for Health Law Connections on this topic. From AHLA’s Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQysibh0rhY
Read Scott’s Health Law Connections article: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/content-library/connections-magazine/article/34b68117-81e2-4c7f-9258-245198a69107/CMMI-and-the-Next-Generation-of-Alternative-Paymen
Learn more about AHLA’s Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/practice-groups/practice-groups/regulation-accreditation-and-payment
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 podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.
43 min

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