Stephen Bentfield
Overview
Stephen Bentfield is a partner and a member of the firm’s Health Care Group. Stephen counsels health care organizations on a wide range of health care regulatory and transactional matters. His regulatory experience includes helping clients with issues such as fraud and abuse enforcement risk analysis and mitigation, organizational compliance programs and policies, managed care, value-based care, reimbursement, licensure, and state regulatory issues. On the transactional side, Stephen has extensive experience drafting contracts, advising on deal structuring and negotiation, including the creation of joint ventures and other new corporate structures, as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Career & Education
- St. Lawrence University, B.A., 1995
- Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 2003
- District of Columbia
- Massachusetts
- Colorado
Stephen's Insights
Client Alert | 12 min read | 04.03.25
CMS Issues Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule
In its first healthcare proposed regulation, the Trump Administration, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), displayed on March 10, 2025, a proposed rule titled, “2025 Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule” (the Proposed Rule), which proposes policy changes for the Health Insurance Marketplaces that impact health plans and insurers offering Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage to consumers. Specifically, the Proposed Rule shortens the Annual Open Enrollment Period (OEP) for all individual market coverage; proposes standards related to income verification for Health Insurance Marketplaces (Marketplaces); modifies eligibility redetermination procedures; and eliminates eligibility for “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) recipients, among other provisions.
Client Alert | 35 min read | 07.11.24
Blog Post | 05.31.24
An Overview of the ACO Primary Care Flex (ACO PC Flex) Model
Insights
Fox Rothschild, Husch Blackwell, Ballard Spahr, Crowell & Moring, Fennemore Add Attorneys
|04.05.24
Law Week Colorado
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08.15.24
Crowell Health Solution’s Trends in Transformation
An Overview of the ACO Primary Care Flex (ACO PC Flex) Model
|05.31.24
Crowell Health Solution’s Trends in Transformation
Stephen's Insights
Client Alert | 12 min read | 04.03.25
CMS Issues Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule
In its first healthcare proposed regulation, the Trump Administration, through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), displayed on March 10, 2025, a proposed rule titled, “2025 Marketplace Integrity and Affordability Proposed Rule” (the Proposed Rule), which proposes policy changes for the Health Insurance Marketplaces that impact health plans and insurers offering Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage to consumers. Specifically, the Proposed Rule shortens the Annual Open Enrollment Period (OEP) for all individual market coverage; proposes standards related to income verification for Health Insurance Marketplaces (Marketplaces); modifies eligibility redetermination procedures; and eliminates eligibility for “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) recipients, among other provisions.
Client Alert | 35 min read | 07.11.24
Blog Post | 05.31.24
An Overview of the ACO Primary Care Flex (ACO PC Flex) Model
