Pierce Atwood’s expertise in healthcare matters includes a robust legislative, administrative and regulatory practice. We represent a wide variety of healthcare providers and entities, as well as other businesses and industries that are affected by healthcare policy and regulation.  Our experienced Government Relations team utilizes its substantive expertise, resources, and political savvy to provide clients with effective representation, whether active lobbying of legislation, advocacy before a regulatory agency, or routine monitoring of healthcare legislation and administrative proceedings.

Examples of the legislative issues in which we have engaged are health insurance regulation, Medicare and Medicaid issues, price transparency, scope of practice, provider reimbursement, fraud and abuse compliance, data collection and privacy, guaranteed access reinsurance, nonprofit conversions, Hospital Cooperation Act and pharmaceutical regulation.

We assist clients in the full range of regulatory matters, such as licensing and disciplinary proceedings, reimbursement-related rulemaking proceedings, fraud and abuse reporting and compliance, certificate of need applications, and numerous other regulatory matters. Our practice includes representation of clients in front of the Maine Department of Health & Human Services, the Maine Board of Pharmacy, the Maine Bureau of Insurance, the Maine Boards of Licensure in Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and Nursing, and the Maine Workers Compensation Board, among others.

The chair of our Government Relations team is veteran State House lawyer-lobbyist Ann R. Robinson, who previously served as General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs for Maine’s largest independent physician practice group that included two ambulatory surgical centers. Ann’s legislative expertise is deep and broad, encompassing decades of experience in lobbying on healthcare matters affecting physicians, pharmaceutical manufacturers, PBMs, mail-service pharmacies, and health insurance companies. In her regulatory practice, Ann has frequently appeared before the Maine Board of Pharmacy, state professional licensing boards, DHHS, and the Maine Bureau of Insurance. She has represented healthcare entities in licensing and enforcement proceedings, compliance matters, rulemaking proceedings and fraud and abuse compliance proceedings.

Collectively, members of our Government Relations team bring a diverse set of skills and experience to bear on our clients’ legislative and regulatory needs.