At Ropes & Gray, Brian advises clients across the health care ecosystem on complex regulatory and transactional matters, with a focus on practical, execution driven solutions. His practice spans federal and state compliance, including the Anti Kickback Statute, Stark Law, False Claims Act, Physician Payments Sunshine Act, HIPAA and data governance, corporate practice of medicine, and licensure for health care facilities and laboratories. Brian regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, and capital markets matters, and he navigates multi state health care transaction notification regimes and post closing integration. Brian’s research compliance work includes negotiating clinical trial and site agreements, informed consent and subject injury provisions, and coding and billing compliance. He advises on reimbursement and revenue cycle topics involving private payors, Medicare, and Medicaid, as well as the 340B Program. Brian represents private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, nonprofit hospital systems, public and private universities, Fortune 25 companies, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and medical device manufacturers.
In law school, Brian was a member of the Health Law & Policy Clinic in Harvard Law’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. While a student, Brian was a research assistant for Professor I. Glenn Cohen, Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. As a research assistant, Brian edited chapters of a book on the regulation of medical devices. Brian also spent a summer working at Cleveland Clinic, focusing on HIPAA compliance at the medical center. Prior to law school, Brian held a policy fellowship at a non-profit legal organization, where he assisted in litigation to advance access to Medicaid and where he co-authored an amicus brief later cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Brian earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from Yale University.