Joel Hamme retired from Powers on April 30, 2019. Joel practiced healthcare law for 46 years, 21 of them at Powers. His areas of expertise included Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues for institutional providers and the 340B drug discount program.
Powers Principal, Paul Moorehead, presented “Energy Development on Tribal Lands in the Era of Indian Self-Determination” at the Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Conference in Albuquerque, NM on April 11, 2019. Paul discussed the legal and regulatory barriers to energy resource development on Indian tribal lands and the recent enactment of the “Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act Amendments of 2018” which he and Powers Tribal Group partner, Brian Gunn, worked on for several years prior to it being signed into law by President Trump in December 2018.
Powers Principal, Barbara Straub Williams, presented on Sunday, April 7 in Boston at the Health Care Compliance Association conference on “A System-wide Approach to 340B Compliance in a Multi-State Integrated Health System”.
POWERS Principal, Peggy Tighe, is quoted in Politico regarding 340B and the potential impact if Obamacare is eliminated. Read full coverage here.
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Barbara Straub Williams, principal at Powers, presented at the American Health Lawyers Association Institute on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues on March 20 and 21 on the federal 340B drug discount program. Barbara’s presentation included a primer on 340B compliance issues as well as a discussion of recent developments.
