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Neha Mahendra Matta & Brian F. Higgins
HEALTH CARE LAW PRACTICE GROUP
The Health Care Law practice group wrapped up 2021 with the annual Health Care Law update on December 9. Co-Chairs Neha Mahendra Matta, vice president, general counsel and chief privacy officer with The Health Collaborative, and Brian Higgins, managing associate with Frost Brown Todd, chatted about the challenges and opportunities ahead for the group and the health care law profession.
WHEN AND WHY DID YOU JOIN THE HEALTHCARE LAW PRACTICE GROUP?
Higgins: I became a member of the Healthcare Law practice group in early 2017, right after I joined Frost. I wanted to become chair of the group because I saw an opportunity to interact with other healthcare lawyers and professionals within the healthcare industry. I like the idea of trying to present our membership with different opportunities to learn about new changes in healthcare laws, and also from other service professionals in the healthcare industry. I want to bring them into the fold and give them the opportunity to educate our members not only on changes to the law, but changes to the services they provide.
Matta: I started as secretary in 2019. I thought it was a cool oppor- tunity because I think working at the Health Collaborative is a really unique organization. We are part information exchange, part IT help and data analytics. My job is really focused on data sharing and how to ensure that protected health information is shared as expansively as possible within the law. And in my role, I have the opportunity to interact with all the healthcare, health system legal departments as well as individual providers, as well as skilled nursing facilities, to just a broad range of health care providers and stakeholders. I feel like the healthcare commu- nity in Cincinnati is super, super small, so this really gives us an opportunity to get to know one another and meet one another and lean on one another as resources.
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