Denise Hanna

Denise guides health insurers and managed care organizations through their highest priority regulatory compliance challenges and strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and developing new business models where payors and providers converge.

Denise is a longtime trusted advisor for health insurers, MCOs, and their intermediaries, including mid-sized PBMs, in a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters. Her clients include those underwriting, administering, or supporting commercial, managed Medicaid, and Medicare Advantage health plan products.

Denise has a deep understanding of how health plans are regulated at the state and federal levels, and how plans are operated on a day-to-day basis. She has broad health industry knowledge, a strategic and comprehensive approach to problem-solving, and an ability to bring difficult deals to closing.

Denise’s legal experience includes lead roles in health care M&A, joint ventures, internal restructurings, payor-provider alignment transactions, and other strategic undertakings. She has extensive experience in managed care contracting with providers, population health managers, PBMs, and other health plan business “partners,” including in connection with the development of value-based payment arrangements. Denise also has deep experience in multistate and federal health insurance and managed care regulatory matters, including Medicare Advantage compliance, Affordable Care Act compliance, and other state health insurance reforms.

Member, National Bar Association (NBA)

Member, American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA)

American Bar Association (ABA) Health Law Section

Past member, Health Law Section Council

Past chair, Health Reform Task Force

Past chair, Planning Committee for Emerging Issues in Health Law Conference

Past co-chair, Planning Committee for Washington Health Law Submit

Member, Women Business Leaders in the U.S. Health Care Industry (WBL) (2010-Present)

Board of directors, The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts

Board of directors, VHC Health Foundation