Denise Hanna

Denise E. Hanna has been involved in public policy and transactional matters affecting the health care industry for more than 20 years.  Ms. Hanna has represented health care payors and providers, pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies, third party administrators, trade associations and other health care organizations in a range of transactional matters and in legislative, regulatory and administrative proceedings.

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 up in the industry.  She is Chair of the National Bar Association’s (NBA) Health Law Section and serves on the NBA’s Board of Governors, which formulates policies for the entire Association.  She has participated in health care seminars across the country, including moderating a recent roundtable discussion held as part of the NBA Health Law Section’s 2009 Healthcare Law Summit.

Education

• J.D., Stanford Law School, 1986
  
• B.A., Behavioral Sciences, with honors, University of Chicago, 1983
  

Bar Admissions

• California, 1987

Representative Experience

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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

• Contributor, "The D.C. Update (Vol. II, No. 2)," Locke Lord (February 2, 2010)
  
• Contributor, "The D.C. Update (Vol. II, No. 1)," Locke Lord (January 26, 2010)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 3)," Locke Lord (January 25, 2010)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 2)," Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP (January 12, 2010)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 1)," Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP (January 5, 2010)
  
• Contributor, "The D.C. Update (Vol. I, No. 8)," Locke Lord (December 22, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 22)," Locke Lord (December 21, 2009)
  
• Co-Author, "Client Alert: Changes in the California Nonprofit Corporation Law Affecting Public Benefit Corporations," Locke Lord (December 16, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "The D.C. Update (Vol. I, No. 7)," Locke Lord (December 15, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 21)," Locke Lord (December 14, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "The D.C. Update (Vol. I, No. 6)," Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP (12/8/2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 20)," Locke Lord (December 7, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 19)," Locke Lord (November 30, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 18)," Locke Lord (November 23, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 6)," Locke Lord (August 31, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 5)," Locke Lord (August 24, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 4)," Locke Lord (August 17, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 3)," Locke Lord (August 10, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 2)," Locke Lord (August 3, 2009)
  
• Contributor, "Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 1)," Locke Lord (July 27, 2009)
  

Press Release

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell Expands National Health Care Focus with Relocation of Partner to DC Office — 9/14/2009

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell L.A. Partner Elected Chair of the National Bar Association’s Health Law Section — 8/17/2009

Events

Professional History

• Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

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 - Present)
• National Bar Association, Health Law Section
  • President (2009 - Present)
  • 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)