Health Law Update 2026

Brad Rostolsky is a health care lawyer with Greenberg Traurig whose practice focuses on health care regulatory compliance, privacy, and transactional matters. He regularly advises health care providers, health systems, management services organizations, and health technology companies on HIPAA, 42 C.F.R. Part 2, and the evolving intersection of federal privacy law with clinical operations, health IT, and business strategy. Brad has significant experience counseling organizations on substance use disorder confidentiality requirements, including consent frameworks, redisclosure limitations, enforcement risk, and the practical realities of implementing Part 2 in modern care delivery and data-sharing environments. In addition to his privacy and data protection work, Brad advises clients across a broad range of health law issues, including healthcare transactions and joint ventures, change-of-ownership matters, provider contracting, corporate practice of medicine considerations, licensure and regulatory compliance, and relationships among providers, management companies, and technology vendors. His work often involves helping clients structure compliant operational and business arrangements while navigating overlapping federal and state regulatory regimes. Brad is a frequent speaker and writer on health care regulatory topics and regularly presents at continuing legal education programs.

Mr. Hoffman is Deputy Chief Counsel with the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Mr. Hoffman joined the Pennsylvania Department of Health in August 2018 after spending nearly ten years in private practice. Currently, Mr. Hoffman oversees litigation and regulatory issues related to a variety of programs under the Department’s umbrella. This includes medical marijuana, healthcare facilities, and general discovery practice.

Mr. Gleeson is associate counsel for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He began his tenure with the Commonwealth in early 2020 with the Department of Health, and currently provides legal and regulatory guidance to its Division of Nursing Care Facilities. Prior to joining the Department of Health, Mr. Gleeson was in private practice where he specialized in civil contractual litigation and municipal law. He earned his B.A. from Temple University and his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Ian Donaldson is a partner with the law firm of Horty, Springer & Mattern, P.C. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He devotes his practice entirely to health care law, working extensively with hospital and physician leaders on various medical staff issues including credentialing and peer review matters. Ian is an Editor of the Health Law Express, a weekly e-newsletter on the latest health law developments. He previously served as a faculty member of the HortySpringer Seminars The Credentialing Clinic and The Complete Course for Medical Staff Leaders and is a current faculty member of The Peer Review Clinic. He has also served on the faculty of ACOG’s (The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Quality and Safety for Leaders in Women’s Health Care postgraduate course. Ian earned his B.S. in Economics from Penn State University. He earned his J.D. and Certificate in Health Law from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he served on the Pittsburgh Tax Review.

Chris provides sophisticated transactional and regulatory counsel to an array of health care providers and investors in the health care industry. Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Chris served as deputy general counsel to Jefferson Health System and general counsel to the system’s accountable care organization and captive professional liability insurance companies. Chris has worked in the health care industry for nearly three decades. His practice focuses on mergers, acquisition, and divestitures transactions for health care clients and the comprehensive regulatory schemes requisite to doing business in the health care space. Chris routinely handles matters involving payer negotiations, payment disputes and contract enforcement, accountable care organizations, management services organization, clinically integrated networks, value based payment arrangements, pharmacy benefit management and third party administrator contracts for self-insured employers, digital health, organizational and governance structures, HIPAA, information privacy and security, tax exemption, Stark Law, fraud and abuse matters, clinical integration, medical staff relations, facility and professional licensing, Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act, and general compliance. At Jefferson Health System, Chris served as a legal advisor to the system’s board of trustees and executive team and played key roles in Jefferson Health System’s largest and most complex transactions. During his tenure, Chris helped lead the system’s restructuring efforts in 2010 and the separation of its members in 2014, which resulted in the creation of three autonomous and agile health systems. As a result of his extensive in-house experience, Chris has a deeply ingrained understanding of health care clients’ governance structures, day-to-day operations, goals, and expectations. Prior to joining Jefferson Health System, Chris spent 16 years in private practice representing health care clients in a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters, the last seven as a partner of an Am Law 100 law firm’s health law practice group. Previously, he served as an adjunct professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Widener University School of Law, where he taught health care finance. He serves as chairman of the board of The Rock School for Dance Education. He earned his J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law and his B.A. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.