Katrina A. Pagonis

Partner
Chair, Regulatory Department
San Francisco: 415.875.8515
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Washington, D.C.:

Katrina Pagonis is chair of the firm’s regulatory department and a nationally recognized expert on implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s market reforms, including the federal regulation of government-sponsored and private managed care plans and the establishment and operation of Health Insurance Exchanges (“Marketplaces”) like Covered California. Katrina regularly advises clients on the impact of health care reform, as well as emerging health care reform proposals (from repeal-and-replace to single payer) at the state and national levels.  She also provides regulatory and strategic advice to health care providers concerning managed care issues more generally, including out-of-network reimbursement, network configuration (narrow and tiered networks), reference pricing and cost-sharing limits, managed care contracting, and enrollment assistance activities.

In addition, Katrina regularly assists health care providers—including hospitals, long-term care providers, suppliers, pharmacies, hospices, physicians and medical groups—with a broad range of regulatory and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement matters.  She is an expert in site-neutrality initiatives for hospital outpatient services, meaningful use of electronic health records, health care technology, clinical trial agreements, antitrust, and internal investigations.  Katrina represents providers in government investigations and False Claims Act cases and assists providers that have credible information regarding potential overpayments with the investigation, identification, reporting, and returning of overpayments. Until 2012, she was a full-time professor of health law at Hamline University School of Law (now Mitchell Hamline School of Law) in St. Paul, Minnesota.

EDUCATION

Yale Law School, L.L.M., 2006
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2005
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, M.P.H., 2005
University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 2001

BAR ADMISSIONS

California, 2009

CLERKSHIPS

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

  • Chambers USA
  • Top Healthcare Lawyer: California, 2022, 2023

  • Super Lawyers, Northern California
  • Rising Star, 2019

  • Best Lawyers
  • Administrative/Regulatory Law, 2024

  • Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
  • Fellow, 2021

  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • Chair of the Healthcare Reform Task Force

  • American Bar Association
  • Health Law Section

  • California Society of Healthcare Attorneys
  • Health Law Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law
  • Advisory Board Member, 2016-Present