Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 of its lawyers have been recognized by their peers for inclusion in the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that 80 lawyers are recognized in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, with ten receiving this honor for the first time. Additionally, 22 Hinshaw lawyers are included in The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that Scott Seaman—Chicago-based partner and co-chair of Hinshaw's global Insurance Services Practice Group—has been named a Top Author in the Insurance category of the 2024 JD Supra Readers' Choice Awards. This marks the fourth consecutive year Seaman was named a Top Insurance Author in the JD Supra Readers' Choice Awards. Honorees were selected from a pool of 2,600 insurance law authors.  

Read Hinshaw healthcare partner Michael Dowell's analysis of the OIG’s new Medicare Advantage Compliance Guidance, featured in the Journal of Health Care Compliance.

Read Hinshaw partner Michael Dowell’s US Pharmacist column, which analyzes the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2026, one of the most significant pieces of federal legislation to reshape pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) regulation in the United States.

With overpayments to Medicare Advantage programs projected to reach $76 billion this year, read Michael Dowell’s insights on what is driving policymakers to take a closer look at cutting costs as they face pressure to reduce the federal deficit.

Hinshaw partner Michael Dowell will present "Using the Federal Tort Claims Act Program to Preserve Limited Financial Resources" on October 6, 2023, at the Illinois Primary Health Care Association's (IPHCA) Annual Leadership Conference in partnership with AllianceChicago at the Renaissance Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP health law partner Michael A. Dowell will present at the Orange County Bar Association Health Care Law Section Meeting. He will moderate the session titled "Mid-Level Practitioners: A Primer on the Legal Issues Affecting a Growing Segment of the Health Care Delivery Workforce," which will discuss:

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP health law partner Michael A. Dowell will present at the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys Annual Meeting & Spring Seminar. He will moderate the session titled "Fraud & Abuse," which will discuss recent trends in hospital-physician transaction enforcement action judgments and settlements related to the anti-kickback statute, Stark self-referral prohibition, and False Claims Act. Attendees will learn about key valuation considerations and valuation report content requirements, as well as how to determine fair market value and commercial reasonableness. The panelists will describe the roles and responsibilities of hospital administrators, legal counsel and valuators in hospital-physician transactions. Defense counsel will discuss strategies to resolve compliance and enforcement matters with government regulators. Lastly, the panelists will outline hospital-physician transaction compliance program best practices and explain how to conduct compliance audits.

Hinshaw's Mike Dowell will present "340B Drug Program Challenges and Opportunities," on September 16, 2020 at the Nevada Primary Care Association's (NPCA) Virtual 2020 Annual Health Care Conference. The conference, which is in its 25th year, will focus on the theme of  "educating, connecting, innovating." In addition to Dowell's presentation on 340B, the event will also include programs addressing staff burnout, health center policies and procedures, mental health, social and racial justice, and quality improvement.

Food-as-medicine programs can advance patient care while creating significant compliance risks. Read our latest healthcare alert on OIG Advisory Opinion 26-16, and the safeguards organizations should consider before launching such initiatives.

Learn how to comply with California’s AB 1587, which fixes a pharmacist notification gap for emergency refills, but leaves PBM billing and audit issues unresolved, before the law takes effect on January 1, 2027.

Read key takeaways from the landmark Aspen Dental settlement and what it means for California DSO/MSO compliance.

Download or read the complete newsletter here: Medical Litigation Newsletter - August 2013