Denise Hanna

Denise Hanna, Co-Chair of the Firm’s Health Care Practice Group and Managing Partner of the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office, concentrates her legal practice on representing health insurers, managed care organizations and their intermediaries in a range of regulatory and transactional matters. Many of Denise’s clients underwrite, administer or play supportive roles in commercial, managed Medicaid and Medicare Advantage health plans.

Health Industry Experience

Denise’s legal experience includes lead roles in health industry:

• Managed care and provider contracting
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures and other strategic alliances
• PBM, vendor, service provider and outsourcing arrangements
• Internal corporate restructures
• Commercial transactions
• Change of control regulatory proceedings
• Managed care and health care regulatory matters

Health Care Reform

Denise has closely tracked the enactment of federal health reform and advises clients on implementation issues, compliance obligations and strategic opportunities under the Affordable Care Act and related state reforms. Denise has advised clients on:

• Compliance with ACA health insurance market reforms
• Health plan expansions for ACA Marketplace participation
• Private employer health insurance exchanges
• Medical loss ratio (MLR)
• MSSP and ACOs

Denise also is a frequent speaker and writer on health reform topics.

Denise’s representative experience includes:

• Lead counsel in representing international health insurance company in its purchase of a majority interest in a business concern, with an enterprise value of $100 million, which furnishes health benefit plan administration and provider network access to employers and other third parties on a regional basis and in the development of the post-closing joint venture agreement
• Special health insurance regulatory counsel to private equity firm in its acquisition of holding company for PBMs, pharmacy discount programs, pharmacies, national Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, TPAs and various other regulated entities in $900 million acquisition
• Lead counsel in representing national health insurance company in the $650 million acquisition of a Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care organization, with principal operations in California and additional operations in several other states
• Lead counsel in assisting California-based business develop operating models and payor contracts for the management and coordination of care for patients with multiple chronic conditions in various states, in a manner consistent with applicable corporate practice of medicine and insurance laws
• Lead counsel in representing California Knox-Keene health plan in the negotiation of its contracts with various private health insurance exchanges