Pat is an attorney who focuses his practice on representing health care organizations and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional–US (CIPP–US). He advises clients on a broad spectrum of health care regulatory, clinical trial, data privacy, PBM, health care technology, and transactional matters. He has experience drafting and negotiating health care services agreements and with technology transactions as well as counseling clients on state licensure rules, compliance with fraud and abuse laws, privacy and data protection issues, and the Interoperability and Information Blocking Rules under the 21st Century Cures Act.
Prior to joining Mintz, Pat was corporate counsel for a Massachusetts-based company that provides products and services to individuals with renal disease. In that role, he provided counsel on a broad range of regulatory and compliance matters and drafted and negotiated acute care and other health services agreements. Earlier, he was an assistant general counsel for information technology with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, where he negotiated technology transaction agreements and assisted with privacy issues. He also previously worked as an attorney with a Massachusetts-based consulting company focused on health care cost containment.
Pat earned his JD with a concentration in Health & Biomedical Law, with distinction. In law school, he served as chief content editor of Suffolk Law’s Journal of Health & Biomedical Law.
While attending law school, Pat worked in the development office of a teaching hospital affiliated with a preeminent medical school. He also served as a legal intern in the hospital’s Office of the General Counsel and as a certified student attorney with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Before law school, Pat worked as sports writer and an editor for B2B health care and technology publications.
Pat is an editor of and contributor to the firm's Health Care Viewpoints.
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OHRP Workshop Highlights Artificial Intelligence Uses, Concerns in Human Research
October 9, 2024| Blog|
Will Sustained Pressure on the 340B Program Finally Lead to Much Needed Reform?
September 17, 2024| Blog|
PBM Policy and Legislative Update — Summer 2024
July 31, 2024| Blog|
Colorado AI Systems Regulation: What Health Care Deployers and Developers Need to Know
June 27, 2024 | Blog | By Pat Ouellette
As the first state law to regulate the results of Artificial Intelligence System (AI System) use, Colorado’s SB24-205, “Concerning Consumer Protections in Interactions with Artificial Intelligence Systems” (the Act), has generated plenty of cross-industry interest, for good reason. In some ways similar to the risk-based approach taken by the European Union (EU) in the EU AI Act, the Act aims to regulate developers and deployers of AI Systems, which are defined by the Act as “any machine-based system that, for any explicit or implicit objective, infers from the inputs the system receives how to generate outputs, including content, decisions, predictions, or recommendations, that can influence physical or virtual environments.”
340B Program Administrative Dispute Resolution Final Rule: Key Takeaways
May 16, 2024 | Blog | By Abdie Santiago, Pat Ouellette
On April 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Final Rule for its oft-criticized 340B Administrative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program (2024 Final Rule).
ACA Section 1557 Final Rule: OCR Prohibits Discrimination Related to Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
April 29, 2024 | Blog | By Pat Ouellette
Preventing discrimination and bias in connection with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care is among the principal current focuses of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and was among the health care directives in the recent Biden Administration Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (Executive Order). Consistent with these priorities, on April 26, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an unpublished version of a new final rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that aims to broadly address inequity across health care but also requires certain actions of entities covered under Section 1557 around their use of AI in clinical decision-making (Final Rule).
Navigating Health Tech: Regulations for AI/ML in Medical Devices and Software
April 16, 2024 | Video | By Benjamin Zegarelli, Pat Ouellette
New Mexico Latest State to Expand Medicaid Behavioral Health Program, Add Mobile Crisis Intervention Program
February 21, 2024 | Blog | By Pat Ouellette, Kathryn Edgerton
New Mexico recently became the latest state to receive Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approval to expand the state’s behavioral health service offerings through mobile crisis intervention teams. Under its new state plan amendment, among other items, New Mexico will make available mobile (i.e., outside of a hospital or other facility setting) crisis and mobile response and stabilization services for individuals at the location in which they are experiencing a crisis, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year. Mobile crisis services include stabilization of the person in crisis, prevention of further deterioration, and provision of immediate treatment and intervention but may also include telephonic follow-up interventions, such as additional intervention and de-escalation services and coordination with other supports and community partners, for up to 72 hours after the initial mobile response. New Mexico also will offer children’s mobile response and stabilization services (MRSS), which are mobile crisis services but specific to child, youth, and families and include up to 56 days of stabilization services.
Health Law Diagnosed — Mintz Health Law Team: Reflecting on What We Are Grateful For
February 5, 2024 | Podcast | By Bridgette Keller
As the Mintz Health Law team welcomes the beginning of 2024, many of its members take a moment to reflect on the exciting growth of the Health Law Practice, opportunities to partner with clients on complex legal issues, and the celebration of numerous milestones.
News & Press
Mintz is pleased to announce that 31 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 35 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2024.
Fifty-Nine Attorneys Recognized as 2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
October 12, 2023
Mintz is pleased to announce that 32 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 27 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2023.
Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D 2022 Final Rule
April 28, 2021
Analyzing the First Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA) Enforcement Action and Its Application to Federal and State False Claims Statutes
February 5, 2020
Comparing and Contrasting AKS and EKRA Safe Harbors: Clinical Lab Impact
September 9, 2019
The Practical Impact of Ariana M. v. Humana Health Plan of Tex., Inc. on ERISA Denials of Benefits
May 1, 2018
Class Arguing False Advertising of Health Supplement Meets Sixth Circuit's Moderate Rule 23 Standards
January 1, 2016
Events & Speaking
Navigating New HHS-ONC Final Rule: Health Information Sharing and AI Use; Compliance Strategy and Policy Development
Strafford Webinar
Virtual
Recognition & Awards
Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars: Health Care (2023 - 2024)
Involvement
- Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals