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Blair Cantfil

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Manatt Health
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  • Phone: 202.624.3333
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  • Washington, D.C.
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    Washington, D.C.

Education
  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 2012

    Princeton University, M.P.A., 2012

    University of Virginia, B.A., cum laude, 2005

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Profile

Profile

Blair Cantfil helps clients develop strategies to navigate emerging health care policy and enforcement trends. She provides counsel to a broad-based group of companies in the health care industry, assisting these clients in matters related to federal health care program access and reimbursement, fraud and abuse, compliance, and internal and governmental investigations.

Blair is a creative problem solver who views her clients as business partners. She develops legal and policy solutions that enable her clients to operate effectively in an increasingly complex regulatory environment. Blair’s work spans both Congress and federal agencies. She has experience advocating client issues before all congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care as well as implementing new laws through the rulemaking process. Blair has extensive experience working with trade associations and coalitions.

She has particular experience in health care policy and regulation affecting cancer care, large health care providers including academic medical centers and hospital systems and nonprofit organizations. Blair also helps her clients navigate payment and delivery system reform, patient assistance programs, and applications of federal fraud and abuse laws to the hospital and pharmaceutical industries.

Prior to joining Manatt, Blair was counsel at an international law firm. Previously, she clerked with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Blair has also consulted with the World Health Organization and worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services. She obtained a Honduran nursing degree during her Peace Corps service.

Experience

Experience

Developed and managed legislative solutions to ensuring appropriate Medicare reimbursement for a client’s services.

Advocated successfully to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue clarifying subregulatory guidance.

Obtained an Office of Inspector General (OIG) Advisory Opinion allowing a client to implement a proposed patient assistance program.

Honors & Awards

Honors & Awards

Chambers USA Top-Ranked Attorney, Healthcare (District of Columbia), 2022

Named as "Up and Coming" leading lawyer, Chambers USA, 2021

Memberships

Memberships

Admitted to practice in Virginia and the District of Columbia

Publications

Publications

Quoted, “Is hospital-at-home running out of time?,” Modern Healthcare, August 16, 2022.

Quoted, “Why East Coast Hires Are Buying Into Manatt’s Hybrid Services Strategy,” The American Lawyer, July 21, 2021.

Blair in the News

  • 08.16.22

    Cantfil Quoted in Modern Healthcare on Hospital-at-Home Program

    Manatt Health Partner Blair Cantfil was quoted in Modern Healthcare on the future of the hospital-at-home program as hospitals anticipate losing ...

  • 06.01.22

    Manatt Receives Top Band Rankings in Chambers USA 2022

    Manatt has once again been ranked among the nation’s leading law firms in Chambers’ 2022 USA Guide. The Firm and its professionals were ...

  • 12.14.21

    Manatt Continues Growth of Digital and Technology Team With Arrival ...

    Timothy Lohse’s extensive intellectual property litigation and prosecution experience and Michel Narganes’ sophisticated corporate work ...

  • 10.29.21

    Manatt Continues to Invest and Innovate in Pro Bono Capabilities With ...

    Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, today welcomed Alexandra S. McCown to its pro bono practice, resident in the New York office. McCown will ...

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Blair's Newsletters

  • 10.18.22

    Designing and Launching Hospital-at-Home Models: Strategic ...

    Hospital-at-home programs enable patients to receive acute care in their home environment.

  • 02.08.22

    Manatt Provides Input to OIG on Opportunities for Modernizing ...

    On January 31, 2022, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, submitted a formal response to the Request for Information issued by the U.S. Department of ...

  • 02.03.22

    What’s Ahead for Federal Health Policy in 2022

    As the Biden administration begins its second year in office, the administration remains focused on its core health policy agenda—advancing ...

  • 11.05.21

    Administration Releases CMS and OSHA Emergency Rules Requiring ...

    The Biden-Harris Administration announced the release of two interim final rules.



Blair's Events and Webinars

  • 03.09.22

    Levers of Change: Remapping the Health Care Landscape

    President Biden set an ambitious health care agenda in his campaign and maintained that focus as he took office. The Biden administration has ...

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