Meghan N. O’Brien

Partner

Meghan has two decades of experience practicing law. She began her career in litigation before serving as outside counsel to physicians and medical groups. Over the past ten years, Meghan has worked as in-house counsel for a multi-facility medical group, a 19-hospital health system, and most recently, one of the largest retail, specialty, and mail-order pharmacies in the United States.

Meghan is a business-minded attorney who focuses her practice on all areas of healthcare law, advising pharmacies and healthcare entities on significant legal contracts and transactions. She provides creative, business-oriented, and legally compliant recommendations to her clients.

Meghan has a strong background in pharmaceutical industry laws, including the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, and the 340B program, as well as industry practices and legal procedures. She has significant experience drafting, negotiating, and finalizing reimbursement agreements for pharmaceutical payor contracts. Meghan also advises on healthcare regulatory and corporate law, including federal and state fraud and abuse laws such as the Stark Law, Medicare/Medicaid requirements and reimbursement, and HIPAA. She counsels on day-to-day operational issues affecting healthcare entities, including compliance, data privacy, revenue cycle management, risk management, marketing, and third-party audits.

SERVICES

  • Payor Contracting

  • Labs, Pharmacy + Specialty

  • Hospitals + Health Systems

  • Healthcare Regulatory + Compliance

  • Outside General Counsel

  • Mergers, Acquisitions + Strategic Transactions

PRIOR EXPERIENCE & REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

  • Negotiated network pharmacy payor agreements for retail, specialty, and mail-order services with pharmacy benefit managers, insurance companies, employers, and governmental agencies for Walgreen Co.

  • Acted as lead attorney on health system transactions, mergers, and acquisitions at AMITA Health.

  • Worked closely with health system business leaders to develop, draft, and execute significant commercial contracts, including:

  • Asset purchase agreements

  • Supply chain agreements

  • Marketing agreements

  • Staffing agreements

  • Consulting agreements

  • Telemedicine agreements

  • IT outsourcing agreements

  • Nursing home and hospice agreements

  • Memorandums of understanding

  • Billing service agreements

  • Drafted, reviewed, and negotiated legal agreements for physicians and medical groups, including:

  • Confidentiality agreements

  • Professional services agreements

  • Non-disclosure agreements

  • Physician employment agreements

  • Physician teaching agreements

  • Developed in-depth training materials and memoranda for health system executive leadership and senior business associates.

  • Served as interim compliance officer for AMITA Health Medical Group.

  • Managed all legal aspects of the medical group’s durable medical equipment (DME) business.

CREDENTIALS

Education.

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, Juris Doctor, May 2005

  • Loyola University Chicago, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, cum laude, May 2002

Professional Associations.

  • Illinois State Bar Association

  • Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys

Admissions.

  • Illinois

  • District of Columbia

Prior Positions.

  • Walgreen Co., Senior Counsel

  • AMITA Health, Associate Vice President, Associate General Counsel

  • Northwest Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Corporate Counsel

Awards.

  • 2024 Walgreens Champion of Champions Employee Award Winner: Committed to More Joyful Lives