AHLA's Speaking of Health Law AHLA Podcasts

In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, AHLA has partnered with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association to highlight the career journeys of four Asian American attorneys. They discuss how they came to practice in health law, some of the major issues they are dealing with in their current roles, their experiences as Asian Americans in the health law profession, and advice they would give to newer health law professionals.
Moderated by Stephen Lee, Solo Practitioner, Law Office of Stephen Chahn Lee LLC, the panel includes Ranmali Bopitiya, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Oscar Health, Juliet K. Choi, President and CEO, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, and Kathryn Doi, Partner, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP.
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AHLA's monthly podcast featuring health lawyer and blogger Norm Tabler's informative and entertaining take on recent health law and other legal developments. 
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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 developments in health care data privacy, best practices for creating a data governance program, and considerations for vendor management and artificial intelligence. Alapp and Nia spoke on an AHLA webinar last year related to this topic. From AHLA’s Health Information and Technology Practice Group. Sponsored by Clearwater.
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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 to her character and personality, her experience working as in-house counsel across a wide range of health care provider types, and how to grow one’s online engagement.

Watch the conversation here.
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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 use those funds and the ramifications of those decisions, and how providers should respond to the government’s enforcement activity related to usage of those funds.
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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 Officer, Cleveland Clinic. Together, they reflect on their experiences over the past three years, the impact of the end of the PHE and associated waivers, and the future of the U.S. health care system. They also discuss issues related to telehealth, behavioral health, and supporting the wider health care community.
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