Ryan Morgan understands that success in today's complex and competitive health care marketplace requires innovative ideas powered by intelligent legal guidance. Ryan's experience on both the provider and payor sides provides him a unique, big-picture perspective to offer tailored and creative legal advice for clients’ business challenges. Ryan previously served as in-house counsel for a large, non-profit health system and for a pharmaceutical benefit management organization with significant insurer operations. He has broad experience successfully advising on a variety of health care transactional, regulatory, and reimbursement issues, including:

  • Commercial and governmental managed care contracting 
  • Medicare Parts C and D compliance
  • Provider-Payor disputes and appeals
  • Stark, Anti-Kickback and other fraud, waste and abuse compliance
  • Hospital physician alignment, including formation and operation of clinically integrated networks
  • EMTALA and Medicare Condition of Participation compliance and defense, including QIO hearings

Education

  • Antonin Scalia Law School - George Mason University (J.D., 2009)
    • University of Virginia (B.A., 2004)
      • Biology; Religious Studies

    Bar Admission

    • Virginia, 2009
    • Colorado, 2015

    Professional Affiliations

    • American Health Law Association
      • Health Plan Affinity Group, Vice Chair
    • Colorado Hispanic Bar Association
      • Judicial Nominations and Endorsements Committee, Co-Chair

    Recognition

    • 11th Annual Americas M&A Atlas Awards, USA Restructuring Deal of the Year, Middle Markets, Nominee Winner: Elements Behavioral Health Restructuring and Sale of Assets
    • Named one of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America in Health Care Law, 2022-2025 
    Publications
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    OIG’s New Medicare Advantage Program Compliance Guidance: What Providers Need to Know
    Key Takeaways OIG’s new Medicare Advantage Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance (MA ICPG) highlights major compliance risk areas and provides practical guidance for MA plans and other parties. Many provisions of this new guidance will impact health care providers participating in the MA program. As MA plans implement this guidance, providers may encounter new obligations from MA plans. This month, OIG released its long-awaited Medicare Advantage Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance. In the 25 years since OIG last issued compliance program guidance in this area, the MA program has changed dramatically—in size, scope and complexity. And as the program has grown, so too has government scrutiny of many aspects of the MA program through audits, investigations, False Claims Act litigation and a growing body of
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    Top Issues in Behavioral Health 2025 Newsletter
    Polsinelli is pleased to share Top Issues in Behavioral Health in 2025. This newsletter is a designated source of news, information and guidance presented annually by the Behavioral Health Law Group.  In This Issue: Behavioral Health Investment 2025- Legal Risks and Mitigation Strategies AI in Behavioral Health: Regulation or De-Regulation in 2025? Autism Therapy Industry Crystal Ball: Predictions and Trends for 2025 Managed Care Trends and Developments in Behavioral Health Telehealth and Behavioral Health: Legislative Outlook and Trends Hospitals Seek a Solutions for the Behavioral Health Crisis through Joint Ventures with Experienced Partners Lessons from the Trenches: Four Tips for Accessing Opioid Settlement Funds Behavioral Health Perspectives form the Host of the 10 Minute HealthBizCast About Polsinelli's Behavioral Law Group
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