Are you interested in health care, but don’t know how to translate your interests into practice at a firm? Would you like to learn more about what transactional, regulatory, and litigation attorneys actually do in the health care sector?

BioLaw invites you to join us on Wednesday, February 5 at 12:45 in a room TBA for a lunch panel featuring four members of the California Lawyers Association’s Health Law Committee to discuss their diverse backgrounds and careers in healthcare law. Our panelists are excited to share insights into the field. They will welcome questions from the audience, so feel free to bring any questions you might have.

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP here!

Panelists include:

Emily Cook provides counsel to health care providers on complex regulatory and reimbursement matters. Her regulatory experience includes fee-for-service Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, billing and coding, licensure, survey/certification and accreditation, and compliance with Medicare and state fraud and abuse requirements. She also has significant experience counseling health care providers and other stakeholder entities on issues related to 340B drug pricing program implementation, compliance and advocacy.

Judy Waltz is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. Her practice focuses on government investigations, false claims act, corporate integrity agreements (CIAs), bankruptcy, and Medicare and Medicaid counseling. Judith works with clients in various areas of the health care industry. She is the co-chair of the firm’s Health Care Industry Team and former co-chair of the Life Sciences Industry Team. Judith is also a member of the Government Enforcement Defense & Investigations and Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations Practices.

Li Wang focuses her practice on healthcare regulatory and compliance matters, including Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Law; eligibility for Medicaid supplemental payments; federal, state, and local taxation of nonprofit healthcare entities; value-based reimbursements and audit methodology of Medicaid reimbursements. She also works on transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions in the healthcare industry. She also has experience counseling clients on tax compliance and reporting for real estate investment trusts (REITs), partnerships and limited liability companies.

John Whittaker is a senior associate and member of the firm’s Healthcare practice. John’s practice focuses on representing hospitals and healthcare providers in litigation and arbitration. John has substantial experience representing hospitals and hospital systems in managed care disputes with health plans involving contracted and non-contracted reimbursement. John has also represented healthcare entities in qui tam actions and disputes involving breach of contract and unfair competition claims.