Dallas partner Sean McKenna will speak at the American Bar Association (ABA) Health Law Section’s National Managed Care Institute 2024 conference on Nov. 7 in New York, N.Y.

Alongside panelists Hilary Harlan, Managing Director of Stout, and Michael McCarthy, Senior Counsel of the Independence Blue Cross’ Litigation Department, McKenna will present the topic, “Managing Managed Care Enforcement.”

This presentation will provide an overview of commercial and government-managed care plans and regulatory/legislative requirements related to fraud and abuse. The panel will discuss how managed care plans use data to track fraud and the structure of strategic audits. Enforcement mechanisms and the basics of audit disputes and investigatory resolution will also be discussed.

The National Managed Care Institute is an annual educational symposium hosted by the American Bar Association's Health Law Section for attorneys in private practice, government service, and in-house that work in managed care and with risk-based healthcare entities of all types. This includes traditional MCOs, provider-operated health plans, ACOs, ICNs, MSOs, TPAs, PBMs, tribal health plans, self-funded ERISA plans, administrative support entities, and all others involved in the reimbursement side of healthcare.

McKenna is a former federal prosecutor with more than 25 years practicing law in his cache. He focuses his practice on healthcare-related legal matters and has represented companies, clinicians, and executives in white-collar criminal, civil False Claims Act, and qui tam cases and investigations. He was an assistant United States attorney for 10 years, a former counsel for the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C., and an associate counsel for the Office of General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in Dallas.

To learn more about the event, visit the event website here.