Emily Shaw

• Providing strategic policy and regulatory counsel on a broad range of drug and device pricing and reimbursement matters, including the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, Medicare Parts B and D, government procurement, and importation.
• Counseling hospitals and other covered entities on 340B Drug Pricing Program matters, including compliance, audit preparation and response, and policy developments.
• Advising health care clients on surprise billing, price transparency, COVID-19 response, and other emerging legislative and regulatory policy developments.
• Providing strategic counsel on advocacy efforts on emerging health care policy issues, including the development of comment letters and assistance with outreach to congressional and agency staff.
• Assisting life sciences and provider clients with development of innovative payment models.
• Providing legislative and regulatory counsel to several biopharmaceutical companies on matters such as biosimilar development, rare disease therapies, and patient assistance programs.
• Counseling on HIPAA, Part 2, GINA, GDPR, and other international, federal, and state privacy laws.
• Providing regulatory counsel for securities filings, mergers and acquisitions, and other transactional matters.

Emily Shaw is a senior associate with Alston & Bird’s Health Care Group. She advises a broad range of health care providers and life sciences businesses on emerging policy issues and complex regulatory matters. Emily focuses her practice on drug pricing and a broad range of health care coverage, coding, and payment matters. Her clients rely on her for legislative and regulatory policy analysis and advocacy. Emily has developed a niche practice on 340B Drug Pricing Program matters. She is recognized by The Best Lawyers in America^© as “One to Watch” in Health Care Law.

Emily earned her J.D. from Cornell Law School. She holds a bachelor's of music from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where she majored in oboe performance. Before joining Alston & Bird, Emily worked in the Kansas City office of a national firm, where she practiced in the health care group.

Bar Admissions

• Missouri
• District of Columbia

Education

• Cornell University (J.D., 2015)
• University of Missouri – Kansas City (B.M., 2011)

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