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.

Katie Anderson has joined Hinshaw’s Health Care practice group in the Springfield, Illinois, office. She brings significant in-house experience at a hospital and regional health system, in addition to private law practice.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that Frank A. Mazzagatti has joined the firm's Health Care industry group as a partner in the New York office. Mazzagatti brings extensive experience with health care regulatory compliance, licensing matters, and transactions.

Read Hinshaw partner Michael Dowell's article in the October 2025 edition of the U.S. Pharmacist, which explores how telepharmacy and remote dispensing are being used to combat the rising number of pharmacy closures and pharmacy deserts in underserved urban and rural areas.

Hinshaw Health Care partner Michael A. Dowell wrote an article published in the March-April edition of the Journal of Health Care Compliance. The article discusses the changing regulatory and enforcement landscape facing hospitals and physicians; the laws and regulations applicable to hospital-physician transactions; recent enforcement actions related to physician employment contracts, medical offices leases, and personal services and management agreements/medical director agreements; and methods for effectively managing and investigating hospital-physician transactions.

Hinshaw is pleased to sponsor the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network's (ICAHN) Annual Conference on November 4, 2025, at the I-Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois. This premier event is ICAHN’s largest member gathering of the year. 

Frank A. Mazzagatti will present at the annual conference of The New York State Pain Society on November 2, 2025, at One World Trade Center, New York City. 

Hinshaw attorneys David Alfini, Aimee Delaney, Adam Guetzow, Frank Mazzagatti, and Amanda Tzivas are slated to speak at the LeadingAge Illinois 2025 Annual Meeting & Expo, which is sponsored by Hinshaw.

Read our latest alert on California’s SB 41 for a practical compliance roadmap—implementation timeline, immediate next steps, a 30-day action checklist, and ongoing planning guidance to align PBM practices by January 1, 2026.

Read about the key revisions to Illinois’ amended Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act (MHDDCA), which removes the longstanding requirement for a witness signature on consent and revocation forms.

Read our alert examining a federal action challenging Illinois’ nonprofit demographic reporting law and its implications for organizations required to disclose leadership data.