The Health Law Consultancy LLC

Focus and practice areas

Health Law Consultancy works on one industry: healthcare. The Chicago firm provides legal services to healthcare businesses, and its site describes it as a boutique practice built around that single subject.

The named practice areas are specific enough to tell you what kind of client walks in. Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D and Medicaid managed care sit at the center. Prescription drug and health insurance work runs alongside them.

The firm also handles healthcare antitrust along with fraud and abuse compliance. Add healthcare contracting and outsourcing, including pharmacy benefit management and health IT arrangements. Joint ventures and alliances round out the transactional side.

Health data privacy

Health data privacy and security gets its own billing. The firm names HIPAA, FERPA, Part 2 and CCPA as the governing regimes it works under.

That combination is worth pausing on. HIPAA covers protected health information held by covered entities and their business associates. FERPA governs student education records, which matters for university health services and school-based programs. Part 2 is the federal rule for substance use disorder treatment records, and it has historically been stricter than HIPAA about redisclosure. CCPA is a state consumer privacy law with its own definitions and its own enforcement path.

A client with data flowing across all four regimes has a genuine mapping problem. The same record can carry different rules depending on who holds it and why. In my opinion, listing those four together signals the firm expects that overlap rather than treating privacy as a single checkbox.

How the team is built

The site names two attorneys. Kathy Roe is Managing Attorney and Co-Founder. Jack Rovner is Attorney and Co-Founder.

Both carry founder titles, so the firm's leadership and its founding are the same two people. For a client, that means the attorney who scopes the matter is likely the attorney who works it. Boutique firms with two named principals tend to run that way.

Health Law Consultancy is a woman-owned business enterprise, certified by the State of Illinois, the County of Cook and the City of Chicago. Those are three separate certifications from three separate government bodies. Each has its own application, its own documentation requirements and its own renewal cycle.

Why the certifications matter commercially

Supplier diversity programs at hospital systems, insurers and government agencies often track certified vendor spend. Procurement teams at those organizations may need a certified WBE on the panel to meet internal targets. Illinois, Cook County and Chicago each maintain their own directories, so a firm certified by all three is visible to buyers in each of those systems.

As a reviewer, I read that triple certification as practical rather than decorative. A firm that has done the paperwork three times is positioning itself for institutional procurement, which fits a client base of payers, providers and vendors.

What the record shows

The firm reports that it is ranked for healthcare law in Illinois by Chambers USA. Chambers researchers interview clients and peers before publishing rankings, and the process runs annually by practice area and jurisdiction. A ranking in a state category means the firm came up during research into Illinois healthcare law.

That is the one external marker the site offers. It is a useful one, because Chambers rankings depend on outside input the firm doesn't control.

Health Law Consultancy is based in Chicago and works with clients nationally and internationally. Health regulation is largely federal, so Medicare and HIPAA questions travel across state lines without much friction. International work in this space usually involves cross-border data transfers, vendor arrangements with US healthcare buyers, or foreign companies entering the US market.

The clients and the work

The firm works with payers, providers and vendors. Those three groups sit on different sides of the same contracts, which shapes what the practice looks like day to day.

Payer-side work in Medicare Advantage involves plan bids, network contracts, compliance program design and responses to CMS audits. Part D adds formulary rules, pharmacy network terms and the mechanics of the coverage gap. Medicaid managed care brings state contracts into the picture, each with its own terms.

How compliance matters typically proceed

Fraud and abuse compliance under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law tends to start with a structure question. Someone proposes a payment arrangement between parties who refer business to each other, and counsel checks it against the safe harbors and exceptions. Where a structure fits a safe harbor, the analysis is short. Where it doesn't, the work becomes a risk assessment.

Self-disclosure is the other common path. The OIG and CMS both run voluntary disclosure protocols, and a healthcare organization that finds a problem internally has to decide whether to use them. That decision involves quantifying the exposure, assembling the factual record and choosing a channel.

How contracting matters typically proceed

Pharmacy benefit management contracts turn on definitions. What counts as a generic, how rebates are shared, what audit rights the plan sponsor keeps: these terms decide the economics long before anyone disputes them. Health IT contracts raise different questions, mainly around data ownership, service levels and what happens to records when the relationship ends.

Joint ventures between healthcare organizations add a regulatory layer to ordinary deal work. The parties have to structure governance and economics while staying clear of kickback and antitrust problems. That is why the firm's antitrust capability and its joint venture capability appear on the same list.

Reading the listing

Health Law Consultancy publishes a narrow, specific description of what it does. The practice areas are named with enough precision that a healthcare general counsel could tell within a minute whether the firm covers their problem.

The site keeps attorney information brief. Roe and Rovner appear with titles, and the firm's positioning rests on the subject matter and the Chambers ranking.

In my opinion, the clearest signal here is the concentration. One industry, two founding attorneys, a defined set of federal and state regimes, and a certification profile aimed at institutional buyers. The firm operates from Chicago and takes work nationally and internationally.