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Roberto Miller M. Torres’ job titles aren’t easily summed up. However, his approach to his legal career is. Miller is the head of legal, governance officer, speak up officer and data protection officer for Care Plus, a Brazilian health care insurer and provider. His roles require interaction throughout Care Plus’s business areas. That’s not new […]

As the top lawyer for a niche healthcare provider, Brad Cain says he’s relying on years of experience to help the company navigate—and thrive—in challenging times. A member of the NaphCare legal department for nearly 15 years and executive vice president and chief legal officer since 2017, Cain says his team has assisted with sealing […]

He always enjoyed litigation, Ryan Crozier being well-prepared and convincingly framing his arguments. But there also was the pressure to rack up the annual 2,000 or so billable hours that private practice expects of an associate. If only he could focus on the other half of the equation. That he has for most of his […]

Treat the patient first and a successful business will follow. It seems like a motto that should be common in the healthcare industry, but with taxes, bills, overhead and other budget strains, financial concerns are often the first thought with patients being second. Such was the experience of Tom Guild and John Heller, who, in […]

It’s an important mission this company in the Philadelphia area undertakes, Liberty Healthcare Corporation contracting with public and private entities serving vulnerable and specialized populations with flexible and intelligent services and solutions. So, there’s opportunity and risk where John Beck has been since 2020 as senior associate general counsel with the additional role of chief […]

“First, do no harm.” Or, as was originally said in Latin, primum non nocere. That part of the Hippocratic Oath sounds simple enough, but modern healthcare is anything but. The most practical means of doing no harm might be through enterprise risk management, says Anthony Wilson, referring to the many variables that affect a healthcare […]

Even as RWJBarnabas Health grows and expands, its focus will be on quality rather than quantity. That’s according to Margaret Campbell, the organization’s deputy general counsel, who says this goal is being achieved through value-based and population-based care. Value-based care compensates providers based on patient health outcomes and population-based care looks at broader social, systematic […]

Michael Faris has enjoyed an unconventional career path but it didn’t start that way. In 1990, he earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and finished a federal court clerkship. He then landed a position that many in his trade would have considered a dream job: associate at the global firm of […]

If Timothy Burke is a rarity, he doesn’t believe he should be. One needn’t be a lawyer to oversee compliance in even such a complex industry as healthcare, he says. How much wider the talent pool will be once the rest of the regulated world realizes it. His employer, Radiology Partners, must have realized it […]

Despite having just 250 beds, Doylestown Hospital has some of the top cardiac care in Pennsylvania and is ranked in the top 15 cardiac hospitals nationwide, but it’s not easy retaining independence. As John Reiss explains, small- to mid-sized hospitals like this one are routinely pressured to merge with larger ones. As the vice president, […]