Attorneys

312.218.7258

bannulis@meaderoach.com

Brian Annulis has spent his entire professional career counseling health care providers, suppliers, practitioners, manufacturers and health plans. Well-versed in matters affecting health care entities, he focuses his practice on health care regulatory and compliance concerns. 

Brian started his career with the Office of General Counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Baltimore, MD, where he concentrated on matters involving the Medicare program. After leaving public service, he has counseled clients on matters involving Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and program participation, corporate compliance, the federal Stark Law, the federal health care Anti- Kickback Statute and the federal False Claims Act. He has assisted clients with compliance investigations and negotiating settlement agreements with the United States Department of Justice and the Office of Inspector General for HHS. He also routinely counsels health care provider on matters involving health care privacy and security standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and other applicable state and federal privacy and security statutes, rules and regulations. 

Brian has assisted clients with developing and implementing compliance programs, and evaluating the effectiveness of the same. He has led firm engagements as an Independent ReviewOrganization for organizations operating under a CIA. He has extensive experience assisting health care providers in procurement and purchasing matters, including the negotiation of pharmaceutical product and supply agreements. He also provides advice and counsel to clients involving clinical research studies and trials, including the negotiation of clinical trial agreements and site management arrangements. Representative clients include health care systems, academic medical centers and hospitals, dialysis suppliers, rehabilitation clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, physicians and group practices, and ancillary service providers. 

Brian obtained a B.A. from Loyola University Maryland in 1988. He earned his J.D. from the Saint Louis University School of Law in 1992 and a M.H.A. from the Saint Louis University School of Public Health in the same year. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association (where he served previously as a Vice Chair for the Fraud and Abuse Practice Group), the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys.  He is certified in Health Care Compliance (CHC) by the Health Care Compliance Association. 

Brian is very active with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and previously served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for the Illinois Chapter. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

312.286.4501

mroach@meaderoach.com

Michael Roach has been serving clients in the healthcare industry as an attorney for 30 years.  He focuses his practice on clinical trial agreement negotiations, clinical research billing compliance, human-subject protection regulatory compliance,, and health information privacy.    

 Michael worked in operational roles in the healthcare industry for several years before returning to law school and starting his career as an attorney.  He was the administrator for the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University; worked as a program evaluator on an NCI grant in the Department of Medical Oncology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and was an operations analyst at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.    

Michael has extensive experience assisting health care entities and business associates as they address issues related to health information privacy and security, especially with regard to the HIPAA Privacy Rule and HIPAA Security Rule, and he has frequently presented at conferences on these topics.

Along with his legal practice, Michael has served as Interim Director of Human Research Protections Program for a major university and as Interim Research Compliance Officer for a large multidisciplinary physician practice. He served as Interim Chief Compliance Officer for the health campus of a major West Coast university and has served as as Interim Privacy Officer for a large metropolitan Department of Public Health, a major multi-hospital health system, and a nationally recognized children’s hospital.  He has assisted multiple research sites and principal investigators with responses to FDA form 483 fillings and warning letters

Michael holds a JD cum laude from the University of Richmond, an MS in Sociology from the University of Illinois–Champaign, and an MHSA from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

312.498.7004

rmeade@meaderoach.com

Ryan Meade is an attorney who focuses his professional work on health care regulatory issues. His legal practice principally focuses on regulatory compliance matters for health care organizations, concentrating principally on Medicare/Medicaid billing compliance and clinical research compliance. He serves as counsel to a number of compliance committees and has developed research compliance programs for a wide variety of health care providers, concentrating on academic medical centers and hospital-anchored health systems. 

Ryan has represented and worked with providers to design clinical trials billing processes that meet the complex Medicare billing rules and has negotiated resolution of multiple research compliance matters with the federal government. He has served as a member of IRO teams for numerous CIAs. His IRO experience includes billing and coding reviews, compliance program implementation assessment, focused arrangements (Stark/AKS), and has served as a legal reviewer of IRO assessments.

Ryan is a law professor at the University of Oxford where he is a member of the Faculty of Law and a Fellow of Blackfriars Hall and Tutor at Hertford College, Oxford. At Oxford he is developing The Programme on Law, Compliance & Ethics. He previously taught health law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law for 20 years where he was Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies and the founding Director of the Center for Compliance Studies. For his work at Loyola, he received the  International Compliance & Ethics Award in 2017. Prior to Loyola,.Ryan was an Assistant Professor at Rush University in Chicago where he taught health law and bioethics courses in both the College of Health Sciences and the Medical College. 

He is a former member of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Compliance Effectiveness Pilot Project Advisory Committee. He currently serves as a faculty member for the Health Care Compliance Association’s Research Academy and an exam writer for the Certification in Healthcare Research Compliance (CHRC).

Ryan holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University, a JD from Cornell Law School, and completed a postgraduate program in law (PGDip) at the University of Edinburgh Law School.

esoqrtquist@meaderoach.com

Steve Ortquist focuses his legal practice on health care regulatory and compliance issues with an emphasis on Stark and the Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as billing and coding issues for a broad spectrum of healthcare providers. 

Steve has significant experience investigating and resolving complex regulatory issues and more than 25 years executive level experience in healthcare, including 20 years experience in design, implementation and operation of compliance programs in organizations of all sizes - from small professional corporations to multi-state corporations. 

He has served on numerous IRO teams for CIA, principally related to focused arrangements. He is a former president of the Health Care Compliance Association.

Steve received a B.S. from John Brown University and a JD from Wake Firest University School of Law.

jfisher@meaderoach.com

Julie Fisher has represented health care clients for 25 years on a range of regulatory and compliance matters. She has exceptional experience in health care transactional and regulatory law, focusing on health care contracting; mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures of health care facilities and practices; HIPAA; Stark; fraud and abuse analysis; tax exemption; Medicare & Medicaid compliance; facility licensure; and other laws and regulations applicable to the health care industry.

She previously served as Director of Compliance for a major multi-state health system and as Associate General Counsel for a publicly traded health care organization.

Julie received her JD from Harvard Law School and an A.B. from the University of Michigan.

cconway@meaderoach.com

Chris Conway focuses his legal practice on health care regulatory issues and compliance program support. Chris has concentrated his work in clinical research compliance as well as a range of regulatory subject-matter areas, including human subject protection, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement, and the regulation of financial arrangements with referral sources.

Chris has performed compliance program assessments, served as due diligence counsel, conducted Medicare/Medicaid audits, and assisted in multiple voluntary self-disclosures. . His clients are principally academic medical centers and health systems. 

He has served in embedded interim compliance staffing roles at a leading academic health center in Texas and for over one year in the clinical research billing unit at a major academic medical center and medical school in California. 

Chris is a law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and an Affiliate Member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, he is co-developing The Programme on Law, Compliance & Ethics.

Chris received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He focused his graduate studies in health law, including concentrating on health care business and finance, health care compliance, and health care payment and policy. Chris served on the Editorial Executive Board of the Annals of Health Law Journal.