Michelle Wright has over 25 years of corporate leadership and private equity advisory experience, including nearly a decade in the C-suite as both Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and a Product Executive for the largest health insurer in the mid-Atlantic region.

Michelle’s varied business and health care background includes human capital and organizational change, mergers and integration, value-based care, private equity, government programs, wellness, disease and behavioral health management, finance, corporate governance, and end-to-end product accountability. She understands complex business models and draws on her experience to help leadership teams create aligned product, care management, and workforce strategies.

As CHRO for CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield—a $9 billion health insurance payor—Michelle was responsible for a 7,000-person distributed workforce and an operating budget of $250 million. Her strategies led the company to top-quartile results for employee engagement and organizational health and received national recognition for engagement, diversity, ethics and compliance, health and wellness, and recruitment. Michelle was directly responsible for the Compensation Committee and all aspects of executive and broad-based performance compensation within a heavily regulated environment. As a Product Executive across three million covered members, Michelle developed a suite of wellness and disease management products across all commercial and government business segments and grew account adoption 400 percent.   

As a Strategic Consultant with extensive private equity, payor, and provider experience, Michelle has aligned providers and provider executives to value-based care and quality strategies while simultaneously reducing turnover and improving engagement. She has led multistate compensation, benefits, and recontracting initiatives in alignment with Corporate Practice of Medicine regulations and established governance for approval and monitoring.

She advises extensively on payor relations and go-to-market strategies within commercial and government programs. She has also advised companies in the receipt of millions in federal, state, and private grant programs supporting patient access, value-based care, behavioral health, technology, and provider retention.

Lisa Pierce Reisz counsels health care organizations regarding their health information technology (HIT) and data use issues, including information security and privacy practices. Her business-focused, practical advice helps clients navigate regulatory compliance and licensing issues, government investigations, and complex disputes.

Lisa advises a wide range of health care clients, including health care providers and health plans, on regulatory compliance. Her practice has a particular focus on HIT and data use issues, including health information privacy and security under HIPAA/HITECH, state confidentiality laws, and 42 C.F.R. Part 2; data breach response; EHR contracting and implementation issues (including meaningful use compliance); complex data sharing arrangements; telehealth; and information blocking under the 21st Century Cures Act. Clients also value her extensive experience with physician licensure, physician contracting, and medical staff governance issues, as well as the peer review process. Additionally, she counsels on fraud and abuse compliance and responses to government investigations at both the state and federal levels.

Lisa is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Health Information and Technology Practice Group and served on the group’s leadership team from 2015 to 2021, having held the positions of Vice President of Strategic Planning, Vice President of Education, Vice President of Research and Website, and Vice President of Membership during her tenure. Lisa is also a member of the Ohio Health Information Management Association and the Columbus Bar Association’s Health Care Committee.

In addition, Lisa has significant experience in the area of commercial and business litigation. She has successfully argued cases before the Supreme Court of Ohio and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth and Tenth Circuits. Lisa also has significant trial and hearing experience in the federal courts in Ohio, Delaware, and New York and before Ohio state courts and administrative agencies. She has successfully defended various clients in summary judgment proceedings and mediated numerous business and commercial litigation disputes.

Before joining Epstein Becker Green, Lisa was a partner at an international law firm and a member of its health care and litigation groups, Electronic Discovery subgroup, and Information Governance Committee.

Linda Pilla is an expert in aligning enterprise risk and compliance standards with operational best practices to achieve management objectives. She has over 20 years of increasingly responsible roles in the non-profit, academic, and for-profit sectors across the continuum of acute and post-acute providers.

Linda has led her clients through some of their most difficult regulatory and compliance challenges, and is particularly skilled in the areas of risk assessment, risk mitigation, and program development strategy. She has proven successes in responding to matters that may negatively impact an organization, and collaborating with stakeholders on compliance and risk issues affecting organizational initiatives. Linda is a versatile professional who serves an experienced compliance and risk advisor, resource and liaison for her clients.

Linda most recently served as a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) to a global home health care and hospice organization. In her role she was responsible for the design, development, implementation and oversight of enterprise risk, audit and compliance programs including culture change, program analysis, Board development, strategic planning and work process design. She routinely provided compliance and regulatory advice and direction to leadership which included eight specialty practices with over 25,000 nursing and ancillary support staff in over 300 offices. This included multiple hospital joint ventures, pharmacy and primary care practice entities, non-profit groups, and global joint ventures.

Prior to serving as the CCO, Linda provided consulting and leadership guidance to companies seeking to improve operations and regulatory compliance. She actively managed corporate integrity agreement negotiation and implementation, IRO oversight, compliance program development and implementation, privacy and security assessments, hospital / practice plan integration strategies, contract negotiations, credentialing and provider matters, and claims and litigation management to major clients including large academic centers, multi-system hospitals, home health care organizations, pharmacy providers, skilled nursing facilities, insurance companies, medical practices, radiology, psychiatric providers and ambulance companies. Linda's experience also includes roles as Chief Risk Officer of a nationally recognized pediatric health system, and VP & Corporate Responsibility Officer of one of the largest entities of a national health system.

Linda is a frequent speaker regarding the regulatory issues that companies face in the frequently changing government landscape.