AHLA's Speaking of Health Law

Mitchell Brie, President and Chief Executive Officer, Empower Healthcare & Compliance Partners, speaks with Guillermo J. Beades, Partner, Frier Levitt, about how compliance and legal professionals can proactively engage with each other to address the legal and regulatory issues facing the health care industry. They share their own real-world experiences navigating the nexus between health care legal and compliance across a range of issues, from risk to artificial intelligence to private equity and more. Sponsored by Empower Healthcare & Compliance Partners.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsDbkg2f74
Learn more about Empower Healthcare & Compliance Partners: https://empowerhci.com/ 
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Banee Pachuca, Partner, Winston Taylor, and Taryn Nasr, Director, VMG Health, explore the constantly evolving regulatory landscape impacting joint ventures. They catch up on recent legal developments and enforcement actions affecting joint ventures, including the California AG’s enforcement of corporate practice of medicine laws, Oregon's update to its health care notification statute, and CMS’ enrollment moratorium that paused initial Medicare applications for new hospice providers and home health agencies. They also review key joint venture structures—including traditional equity joint ventures, management services organizations, and contractual arrangements—and discuss the compliance and regulatory considerations for each model. Banee and Taryn spoke about this topic at AHLA’s 2026 Health Care Transactions conference in Nashville, TN.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKRdSwEhhlk
Learn more about AHLA’s 2026 Health Care Transactions conference: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/healthcaretransactions
Learn more about AHLA’s 2026 Health Care Transactions eProgram: https://educate.americanhealthlaw.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1779 
Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio
AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
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Psychedelic therapy is increasingly becoming a part of clinical decision making, as evidenced by Compass Pathways’ announcement earlier this year of successful trial results for COMP360 psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Kimberly Chew, Senior Counsel, Husch Blackwell LLP, and L. Alison McInnes, MD, MS, Director of Psychedelic Medicine, Mindful Health Solutions, discuss the clinical realities and legal gray zones of psychedelic therapies as they move from controlled trials into real-world practice. They cover recent developments, the gap between clinical trials and clinical practice, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, and what good early adoption looks like in the clinical setting. Kimberly and Alison authored a Health Law Weekly article on this topic.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE_HTFUWbG8
Read Kimberly and Alison’s Health Law Weekly article: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/content-library/health-law-weekly/2026/april/10/psychedelics-in-psychiatry-early-medical-adoption 
Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio
AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.

Psychedelic therapy is increasingly becoming a part of clinical decision making, as evidenced by Compass Pathways’ announcement earlier this year of successful trial results for COMP360 psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Kimberly Chew, Senior Counsel, Husch Blackwell LLP, and L. Alison McInnes, MD, MS, Director of Psychedelic Medicine, Mindful Health Solutions, discuss the clinical realities and legal gray zones of psychedelic therapies as they move from controlled trials into real-world practice. They cover recent developments, the gap between clinical trials and clinical practice, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, and what good early adoption looks like in the clinical setting. Kimberly and Alison authored a Health Law Weekly article on this topic.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE_HTFUWbG8
Read Kimberly and Alison’s Health Law Weekly article: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/content-library/health-law-weekly/2026/april/10/psychedelics-in-psychiatry-early-medical-adoption 
Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio
AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.

For years, health care leaders have focused on value-based reimbursement. Increasingly, the real challenge isn’t simply how health care organizations get paid, but how they organize physicians and operations to perform successfully in a value-based environment. Randy Biernat, Partner, Forvis Mazars, speaks with Jim Wiehl, Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP, about how health care organizations can use value-based enterprises as physician alignment frameworks. They discuss the various strategic opportunities and legal considerations facing health care organizations in this space. Sponsored by Forvis Mazars.
Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkno5VPo8FU
Learn more about Forvis Mazars: https://www.forvismazars.us/
Essential Legal Updates, Now in Audio
AHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.
Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal Education
Learn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.