Denise E. Hanna has been involved in health care public policy and transactional matters for more than 20 years. Ms. Hanna has represented health care payors and providers, pharmacy benefit management (PBMs) companies, third party administrators, health and wellness companies, trade associations and other health care organizations in a range of transactional matters and in legislative, regulatory and administrative proceedings. Ms. Hanna has closely tracked the enactment of federal health care reform and now advises clients on implementation issues, compliance obligations and strategic opportunities under health reform.
Ms. Hanna has substantial experience representing health care organizations in general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, strategic ventures, financings, complex business transactions and antitrust matters, many of which involve issues and business relationships of first impression. She advises clients of the impact of federal and state health care regulation on a variety of business transactions and has extensive experience in developing and negotiating contracts for her clients’ standard operations, marketing and distribution arrangements and business process outsourcing.
Ms. Hanna also advises PBMs offering managed group health and workers’ compensation pharmacy benefits. She has counseled both health plan and PBM clients on the interpretation of Part D of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, and in the development of contracts for the administration of Medicare Part D prescription drug benefits.
Through her active involvement on the national health care scene, Ms. Hanna has a keen awareness of the most important issues that are shaping the health industry. She was Chair of the National Bar Association’s Health Law section during the 2009-2010 year. Ms. Hanna also participates in seminars across the country and was instrumental in organizing the NBA Health Law Section’s Health Care Law Summit in 2009 and 2010. Ms. Hanna is co-editor of the firm’s Health Care Reform Update.
Education
- J.D., Stanford Law School, 1986
- B.A., Behavioral Sciences, with honors, University of Chicago, 1983
Bar Admissions
Representative Experience
Health Care Regulatory and Advocacy
- Lead counsel to state-wide managed care organization on health care reform implementation and compliance.
- Advisor to health and wellness company on strategic opportunities available under health care reform.
- Lead counsel to medical center campus on FEMA appeal.
- Lead counsel to PBM in competitive bid protest against County government.
- Lead counsel in many change of ownership proceedings involving health plans and health insurers.
Lead counsel to national trade association in the development of a 50-state online database of regulatory requirements applicable to workers’ compensation PBMs.
- Lead counsel in multi-state fraud and abuse and fee-splitting analysis for national workers’ compensation claims management company.
- Lead counsel in 50-state regulatory analysis of provider claims recovery rules for health care claims recovery company.
- Lead counsel in multi-state regulatory analysis of managed provider network requirements for workers’ compensation administrator.
- Lead counsel in multi-state analysis of producer appointment requirements for national managed care company.
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Lead counsel in successful sales and acquisitions of specialty and full service managed care plans and other health care businesses in California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Utah and the Territory of Guam.
- Regulatory counsel in sale of Medicare Advantage health plans.
- Lead role in $2 billion acquisition of multi-state managed care company.
- Lead counsel in acquisition of regional PBM.
- Lead counsel in acquisition of e-prescribing technology company.
- Lead counsel in the acquisition of company operating senior-focused web portal.
- Lead counsel in sale of automobile insurance company.
Corporate Representation, Ventures and Alliances and Business Transactions
- Lead counsel in development, structure and financing of pharmacy benefits GPO.
- Lead counsel in the tax-advantaged financing of medical facilities being acquired by federally qualified health clinic.
- Lead counsel in many successful business process outsourcing transactions for health care companies.
- Lead counsel in restructuring health insurer’s relationship with consumer directed health plan (CDHP) program partner.
- Lead counsel in development of contractual and relational structure necessary to obtain CMS authorization to offer a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act.
- Lead counsel in developing physician practice management organizations in several corporate practice of medicine states.
- General counseling for emerging pharmacy benefit administration business.
- General counseling for Los Angeles-based federally qualified health clinic.
Publications & Presentations
Events
- 2012 Spring APPEX Symposium (April 24-27, 2012)
- Workplace Benefits Renaissance 2012 - Managing Uncertainty and Creating Opportunity (February 28-29, 2012)
- 13th Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law (February 22-25, 2012)
- 2nd Annual 5-Year and 10-Year Outlook for Voluntary Benefit Plans Executive Roundtable (February 6th-7th, 2012)
- 2011 Blackman Kallick Insurance Conference (October 27, 2011)
- Health Insurance Exchanges: Transforming the Health Insurance Marketplace (August 2, 2011)
- Healthcare Web Summit: Health Insurance Exchanges: MA, UT & CA Models (May 4, 2011)
- Health Care Reform - Accountable Care Organizations: After the Regulations, The Way Forward (May 2, 2011)
- California Society for Healthcare Attorneys (April 8-10, 2011)
- Serving Senior Health Care Needs Post Reform (March 17, 2011)
- 2011 National CLE Conference (January 5-9, 2011)
- 7th Annual Institute on Corporate, Securities, and Related Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions (October 7-8, 2010)
- A Second Look at Health Care Reform: What Employers and Insurers Should be Doing Now (June 15, 2010)
- Panelist, How Health-Care Reform Will Impact Your Company's Health and Wellness Programs, CFO.com (May 25, 2010)
- Speaker, 2010 NBA Healthcare Law Summit Washington, DC (March 6-7, 2010)
- Panelist, A First Look at Health Care Reform: What Employers Need to KnowPanelist, Dallas, TX (April 28, 2010)
- Panelist, Healthcare Reform: Enough Politics, Let’s Prepare for the Future! Teleconference (April 20, 2010)
- Speaker, 11th Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law
- Speaker, The Forum 09 - DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance
- Panelist, 2009 Healthcare Law Summit
- Speaker, e-Matters (Los Angeles)
Professional History
- Partner, Locke Lord Strategies
Community Leadership
- Vice Chairperson, California Hospital Medical Center, Community Board of Directors (2008 - Present)
- Chairperson, Hope Street Early Head Start Committee of the CHMC Community Board of Directors (2009 - Present)
- National Bar Association
- Member
- Board of Governors (2009 - 2010)
- National Bar Association, Health Law Section
- President (2009 - 2010)
- Treasurer (2008 - 2009)
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Black Women’s Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
- Wilshire Borgata Owners’ Association, Brentwood, California
- Former Board Member
- Former President (1997 - 2004)
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