ESG in Healthcare: Addressing Key Considerations and Risks

Ms. Ferrari is a member of Hancock Daniel’s corporate healthcare group, where she focuses on issues related to transactional and enterprise compensation planning, governance and review, particularly issues related to fair market value and commercial reasonableness. Although her past experience encompasses a multitude of regulatory, transactional, governance and investigation matters, Ms. Ferrari is known especially for her work in recruitment and retention of highly compensated thought leader physicians and executives; and incentive payment distributions through ACOs and clinically integrated networks to advance value-based care initiatives. She has worked extensively with clients navigating the intersection of regulatory and financial considerations in clinical research, including agreements for funding and support services and the related issues of contracting and compliance; transactional due diligence for compensation compliance; and navigating the intersection of compensation and antitrust issues. Ms. Ferrari's expertise also includes recruitment, compensation and procurement governance for “essential” hospitals such as public, rural, academic and pediatric hospitals.

Ms. Jacobs focuses her practice in the area of healthcare transactions. Calling upon her years of dedicated experience, she provides practical, pragmatic advice to help her clients achieve their strategic goals. Within the highly regulated health care industry, Ms. Jacobs advises clients, including hospitals, health systems, AMCs and large physician groups, on transactions. She serves as a regulatory adviser, providing fraud and abuse analysis in the context of a deal and ensuring her clients remain compliant with the regulations that govern health care transactions.

Ms. White has assisted Northwell in advancing its commitment to improve and expand the scope and accessibility of high-quality cost-efficient health care services including through affiliations, joint ventures and other collaborations with other health systems and care providers. She also serves as Secretary, General Counsel and Vice President of several collaborative provider entities, including the Northwell Health Cancer Institute and the Northwell Health ACO.

Prior to joining Northwell, she worked at the Federal Trade Commission, where she received the 2013 Award for Outstanding Scholarship based on her work as a lead author and editor of Antitrust and Health Care: A Comprehensive Guide, Washington, DC, American Health Lawyers Association, 2013. During her earlier tenure in the FTC’s Health Care Division in Washington D.C., she received the Stephen Nye Award as outstanding junior attorney. She also served as a Technical Advisor to the Russian Federation on antitrust matters, resident in Russia. Additionally, she spent many years as a partner in the health law and antitrust practice groups of national law firms.

She is member of the Board of Directors of the American Health Law Association where she currently serves as Chair of the Board Governance Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee. She also is a member of the Executive Committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association. She is also a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches the Business of Health Law.