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Brenda Pawlak

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Managing Director

Manatt Health
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  • Northwestern University, B.S., 1995

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Brenda Pawlak advises health care providers on business strategy related to federal and state policy developments, with a particular focus on care delivery and payment reform. She has over 15 years of experience advising hospitals, health systems, provider organizations and government agencies on strategy and policy issues related to the management and delivery of health care. She often leads complex multi-stakeholder engagement efforts.

Brenda advises clients on health system strategic planning in a post-health reform world (with a special focus on academic medicine, specialty pediatrics and public hospitals); health system clinical partnership models; clinical integration; health-IT enabled delivery reform; value-based payment governance, infrastructure, strategy and implementation; high-risk population identification, care management and innovative models to address gaps in care; and public and private funding for reform efforts.

Brenda has experience in hospital-physician collaborations; future models for academic medicine; Accountable Care Organization (ACO) business planning; clinical integration network strategy; successful proposal development for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Health Care Innovation Awards; Medicaid policy and provider delivery transformation (including Section 1115 Waiver Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) programs); health system expansion and post-acute and community-based care partnerships; public-private partnerships and regional population health transformation efforts; provider-health plan partnership strategy; private health insurance exchange considerations; state and local health information exchange policy and operations; Meaningful Use and related IT strategy; and Title X.

Prior to joining Manatt, Brenda was with the Advisory Board Company working with senior health system executives with a focus on business strategy, nursing leadership and hospital-physician partnerships. Previously, Brenda focused on new service and product offering development and brand extension at National Geographic and for a division of News Corporation.

Speaking Engagements

Speaking Engagements

Speaker, "Health Care Mega Trends & the Implications for Family Planning Clinics," Health Care Mega Trends & Family Planning Clinics, March 29, 2016.

Speaker, "Health Care Mega-Trends & Care Delivery Reform: Informing Perspectives on Innovative Quality Initiatives," 2nd Annual Population Health Summit of Virginia, March 24, 2016.

Speaker, "Title X Grantees and the Changing Healthcare Provider Ecosystem," 2015 National Title X Grantee Meeting, August 19, 2015.

Speaker, “Healthcare Industry Mega-Trends: Surviving and Thriving in a Rapidly-Changing Environment,” presentation to the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, April 28, 2014.

Speaker, "Unearthing Stage 2 Meaningful Use Surprises," Health Data Management webinar, September 5, 2012.

Speaker, "The Hidden Challenges of Stage 2 Meaningful Use," Health Data Management webinar, March 8, 2012.

Speaker, "Health IT and e-Prescribing - Market Opportunities and Challenges for Medication Management and Safety," Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), February 2011.

Speaker, "Health Information Exchange and Support of Provider-Patient Engagement to Achieve Meaningful Use," eHealth Initiative, September 2010.

Speaker, "How to Qualify for Electronic Health Record Technology Meaningful Use Incentives," Health 2.0 in the Doctor's Office Summit, April 2010. 

Speaker, "Potential Implications of Health Reform on Statewide Health Information Exchange," eHealth Initiative, April 2010. 

Speaker, "Securing Federal Funding: What are the EHR System Certification Criteria Under the New Meaningful Use Regulations?" World Congress HITECH and HIPAA Leadership Summit, March 2010.

Publications

Publications

Co-author, “Positioning for Value-Based Cancer Care: Lessons and Opportunities for Health Systems and Oncology Service Lines,” Manatt Health, August 2022.

Co-author, "Advancing Healthcare Transformation: A NEW ERA FOR ACADEMIC NURSING," American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), March 2016.

Co-author, "Health Information Technology: Emerging Landscape, Legal Issues and Opportunities," BNA’s Health Law & Business Series, 2014 (2015 and 2016 updates).

Co-author, "Health Information Technology: Emerging Landscape, Legal Issues and Opportunities," BNA’s Health Law & Business Series, 2014.

Co-author, "Stage 2 Meaningful Use Proposed Rule: Will it Advance the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records?" BNA's Health IT Law & Industry Report, April 2012.

Co-author, "A Closer Look at the Stage 2 Meaningful Use Proposed Rule," iHealthBeat, March 5, 2012.

Co-author, "Implementing National Health Reform in California: Payment and Delivery System Changes," California HealthCare Foundation, November 2011.

Brenda in the News

  • 11.10.20

    Pawlak Quoted in HealthLeaders on the Supreme Court’s Oral Arguments ...

    Manatt Health managing director Brenda Pawlak spoke with HealthLeaders about the Supreme Court’s pivotal California v. Texas case, and ...

  • 11.02.20

    Pawlak Quoted in Healthcare Financial Management Association on the ...

    Manatt Health managing director Brenda Pawlak spoke with Healthcare Financial Management Association about the unknowns that remain for hospital...

  • 10.01.20

    Pawlak Quoted in Inside Health Policy on HHS’s Provider Relief Fund ...

    Manatt Health managing director Brenda Pawlak spoke with Inside Health Policy about HHS’s long-awaited Provider Relief Fund guidance, ...

  • 09.28.20

    Manatt Advises THT Health in Developing COVID-19 School Reopening Plan

    Manatt represented THT Health (formerly, Teachers Health Trust), the health benefits plan serving employees and dependents of Nevada’s Clark ...

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Brenda's Articles

  • 09.29.22

    Positioning for Value-Based Cancer Care: Lessons and Opportunities

    The past 20 years have brought tremendous progress in cancer outcomes with improved screening and new treatments. But with these innovations and our ...



  • 06.30.20

    A Shared Responsibility: Protecting Consumer Health Data Privacy in ...

    As this decade begins, Americans are increasingly apprehensive about the privacy of their personal information. Nowhere is this issue more important ...



  • 06.15.20

    Emergence From COVID-19: Imperatives for Health System Leaders

    The COVID-19 crisis has brought great adversity, and our health systems and academic centers are responding with innovation. Policymakers have ...



  • 07.27.16

    Key Takeaways From the Academic Nursing Leadership Summit

    Editor's Note: In the March issue of "Health Update," Manatt Health introduced a new report prepared for the American Association of ...



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Brenda's Newsletters

  • 11.02.22

    Positioning for Value-Based Cancer Care: Lessons and Opportunities

    The past 20 years have brought tremendous progress in cancer outcomes with improved screening and new treatments, such as immunotherapy, but with ...

  • 01.07.21

    Congress Alters Provider Relief Fund Rules of the Road

    The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the Act), which became law on December 27, includes $900 billion in supplemental appropriations to ...

  • 10.06.20

    HHS Releases CARES Act Provider Relief Fund Reporting Guidance: ...

    On Saturday, September 19, the Department of Health & Human Services released long-awaited guidance on annual reporting requirements for ...

  • 07.09.20

    A Shared Responsibility: Protecting Consumer Health Privacy in an ...

    As this decade begins, Americans are increasingly apprehensive about the privacy of their personal information.

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Brenda's Events and Webinars

  • 09.22.21

    Privacy Considerations in an Era of New Health Data Custodians

    Learn How Seismic Changes in the Collection, Exchange and Use of Health Data Are Impacting Privacy—and Outpacing Policy—at a New Manatt ...

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