Devin Cohen

Experience

Devin regularly works with a wide range of health care organizations—including academic medical centers, clinical networks, hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and provider organizations—as well as industry investors, across areas such as:

Health care transactions and investments

• Provide transactional and regulatory counsel to providers and investors. Two recent examples:
  • Assisting Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in its combination with Health Plans Holdings, Inc. (f/k/a Tufts Health Plan).
  • Advising H.I.G Capital on its investment in eHealth insurance brokerage.

Value-based care arrangements

• Counsel a wide range of providers, payors, practice management organizations, vendors and industry investors in the areas of Medicare Advantage, CMMI program participation, state risk-bearing implications and insurance requirements.
• Advise on combinations and joint ventures, including Welsh Carson’s innovative venture with Humana’s Partners in Primary Care to give Medicare patients greater access to value-based primary care.

Regulatory and compliance

• Routinely counsel Medicare Advantage Organizations, FDRs and program vendors on Medicare Advantage regulatory and contracting standards.
• Advise medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers on regulatory standards related to customer and patient interactions, marketing and clinician education standards, industry and jointly sponsored CME, patient assistance programs, and related compliance program requirements.

Clinical research and related activities

• Regularly provide guidance on drug and drug component development/commercialization considerations for sites, investigators and sponsors.
• Routinely advise institutional and start-up manufacturers, as well as CROs and trial sites, on cutting-edge clinical trial contracting negotiations.
• Provide counsel on research affiliation agreements, including advising a large academic medical center on developing and implementing its research affiliation agreement with a local pediatric health network.
• Conduct regulatory diligence for private equity clients regarding their planned investments in companies that participate in the clinical research enterprise.