American Health Law Association Annual Meeting

The American Health Law Association’s Annual Meeting took place on June 24-26, 2024, in Washington, D.C., and Winston’s Health Care & Life Sciences Industry Group attorneys participated in various ways.

Featured Panelist

Partner Amy Kearbey participated in a panel made up of former HHS-OIG attorneys (Samantha Flanzer, Lead Counsel of Walmart Health & Wellness, and Stewart Kameen of Bass, Berry & Sims). The panelists shared their advice with industry stakeholders on “Patient Engagement: Strategic Considerations for Providing Tools and Support to Patients to Promote Care Coordination and Advance Value-Based Care.” Three key takeaways from the panel are:

• Providing tools and support to patients can help address social determinants of health and otherwise engage patients in their care to promote better health outcomes
• These types of arrangements often implicate both the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the Beneficiary Inducements CMP
• OIG has created several pathways that can insulate stakeholders from liability when providing these types of tools and supports, but each arrangement needs to be thoughtfully structured and carefully implemented

PROUD SPONSOR

Winston was a proud sponsor of the Annual Meeting’s reception at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Reception

Below are pictures from Winston’s Monday evening reception at RPM Italian.