Ben, a partner in our Life Sciences Health Industry Group, consults with Fortune 500 companies, performing complex risk analyses to drive transparency, accountability and strategy across his clients’ business operations. He assists in design and implementation of corporate risk management programs for existing organizations, as well as for new companies, spin-offs, and post-acquisition integrations. He also leads complex investigations and defense teams, and advises on various transactional matters involving health care entities. He works with in-house lawyers, risk-control stakeholders and operations professionals to design right-sized risk solutions including information management processes, product architecture and development and technology procurement, ensuring that selected products and solutions will benefit the client's business goals.
Additionally, Ben has direct experience in dozens of technologies and is an accomplished full stack developer. Combining these skills with his legal experience, Ben's approach to solving client's issues is unique and transformative. He performs predictive analytics and writes regression models to tactically display where companies may need to adjust their processes for compliance and regulatory issues. He also leads his clients through process mapping workshops to isolate legal issues from operational issues and uses Six Sigma methodologies and tools to unravel his clients' most difficult problems. Clients note Ben’s expertise in designing corporate risk management programs, and compliment Ben as a “highly intelligent” and “solid business partner” who ”integrates well with internal teams” and “possesses a unique ability to forge compelling themes and arguments from disparate and extremely complex facts and data and voluminous evidence in a remarkably short amount of time.” Ben focuses primarily on health care compliance and the federal regulation of health care providers and suppliers, medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors through the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, state and federal false claims acts, and rules governing the privacy and security of health information (HIPAA).