Alice Hall-Partyka

Partner | She/Her/Hers

Overview

Alice Hall-Partyka counsels payers, providers, and technology companies on a broad range of health care regulatory, corporate, and policy matters. Alice uses her industry experience to help clients identify practical solutions and navigate complex regulatory frameworks.

Alice advises health care companies that are adapting to evolving laws and regulations, developing new products or services, or seeking to improve their regulatory compliance. She also strategizes with and represents clients that are responding to governmental inquiries and investigations. Alice’s areas of focus include Medicaid and Medicare program requirements, mental health parity, health reform, state regulation of payers and providers, digital health and innovative technologies, and health care fraud and abuse.

Alice applies her knowledge of the regulatory landscape while supporting health care companies with corporate and transactional matters. She regularly negotiates health care transactions, including management services agreements, data use agreements, pharmacy benefit management contracts, and innovative care delivery arrangements. Further, Alice addresses the legal questions that arise in day-to-day provider and payer operations in areas ranging from licensing to structuring and corporate governance.

Alice maintains an active pro bono practice, through which she has represented asylum and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status applicants, handled appellate matters relating to racial justice and environmental protection, and formed and advised a nonprofit organization focused on health equity and health literacy. Alice was named Volunteer of the Year in 2022 by the Inland Counties Legal Services, a legal aid nonprofit in the Inland Empire working to close the justice gap.

While in law school, Alice successfully represented a client who was in asylum removal proceedings and served as the student director of the Afghanistan Legal Education Project, an initiative funded by the U.S. Department of State.

Career & Education

    • University of Southern California, B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Environmental Studies, 2014
    • University of Southern California, B.S., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Global Health, 2014
    • Stanford Law School, J.D., High Pro Bono Distinction, 2017
    • University of Southern California, B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Environmental Studies, 2014
    • University of Southern California, B.S., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Global Health, 2014
    • Stanford Law School, J.D., High Pro Bono Distinction, 2017
    • California
    • California

Alice's Insights

Client Alert | 6 min read | 09.14.26

Mental Health Parity Bulletin Restates Best Practices for Evaluating Compliance

On September 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued “Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-03” to clarify compliance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTL). Under the 2013 final rule implementing MHPAEA, health plans and issuers must use comparable processes, strategies, evidentiary standards, or other factors when applying NQTLs and they cannot apply such methods more stringently to benefits for mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) compared to benefits for general medical and surgical care. While the bulletin doesn’t break much new ground on compliance, it does reaffirm existing enforcement priorities and expectations. ...

Recognition

  • Inland Counties Legal Services: Volunteer of the Year, 2022

Alice's Insights

Client Alert | 6 min read | 09.14.26

Mental Health Parity Bulletin Restates Best Practices for Evaluating Compliance

On September 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued “Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-03” to clarify compliance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTL). Under the 2013 final rule implementing MHPAEA, health plans and issuers must use comparable processes, strategies, evidentiary standards, or other factors when applying NQTLs and they cannot apply such methods more stringently to benefits for mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) compared to benefits for general medical and surgical care. While the bulletin doesn’t break much new ground on compliance, it does reaffirm existing enforcement priorities and expectations. ...

Alice's Insights

Client Alert | 6 min read | 09.14.26

Mental Health Parity Bulletin Restates Best Practices for Evaluating Compliance

On September 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued “Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2026-03” to clarify compliance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) and nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTL). Under the 2013 final rule implementing MHPAEA, health plans and issuers must use comparable processes, strategies, evidentiary standards, or other factors when applying NQTLs and they cannot apply such methods more stringently to benefits for mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) compared to benefits for general medical and surgical care. While the bulletin doesn’t break much new ground on compliance, it does reaffirm existing enforcement priorities and expectations. ...