CARES Act for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers: Implications of Key Provisions

Ms. Swank is a healthcare attorney and nationally known speaker and author with over 20 years experience both as senior in house counsel and in private practice. She is passionate about transforming healthcare through clinical research, virtual care models, innovation, and promoting access to safe, high quality healthcare and evidenced-based medicine. Ms. Swank supports healthcare providers, life-science companies, and digital startups through the compliant and effective use of technology, AI, secondary data, remote patient monitoring, health equity, clinical research and population health. She hosts a national podcast for the American Health Law Association called the "GC Roudtable."

Mr. Davis advises healthcare organizations on Medicare and Medicaid billing and reimbursement issues, with a special focus on the federal 340B drug pricing program. He also counsels clients on emerging healthcare regulatory issues, including COVID-19 relief funding, surprise medical billing, and hospital price transparency, and provides strategic insights to clients on public policy matters under consideration by the U.S. Congress and federal agencies, such as drug pricing policy and nonprofit hospital issues. Mr. Davis forged his deep knowledge of the 340B program and other Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues while working in the federal public policy arena. He spent more than seven years working as vice president and legislative and policy counsel for 340B Health, an association of more than 1,400 hospitals and health systems participating in the 340B program. In this role, he provided technical assistance to member hospitals, directed research and policy efforts, and helped lead government relations efforts to educate federal policymakers on 340B issues. Mr. Davis draws on this experience to advise hospitals, pharmacies, other provider organizations and vendors on 340B issues including enrollment, contracting, audits, compliance and self-disclosures.

Mr. Ramsey represents healthcare providers in a variety of regulatory, transactional and reimbursement matters. He has represented clients in an array of innovative projects, including the formation of  ACOs and the structuring of bundled payment arrangements that qualify for payment under various CMS demonstration projects. He also has represented clients in the formation and operation of numerous joint ventures. In addition, Mr. Ramsey counsels clients regarding regulatory and compliance matters, including issues related to the Stark law, the Anti-Kickback Statue and the False Claims Act. His clients include health care systems, hospitals, post-acute providers, dialysis facilities and specialty pharmacies.