Megan F. Beaver
Areas of Focus
Overview
Megan F. Beaver is a counsel at Crowell & Moring’s San Francisco office, where she is a member of the firm’s Health Care Group. Megan’s practice focuses on health care regulatory matters, with an emphasis on state licensure and compliance issues. Megan works with national and regional health plans (including full service and specialty plans), Medicare Advantage, commercial and Medicaid health plans on a range of regulatory compliance matters, license filings, including plan-to-plan contracts and pharmacy benefit manager contracts, material modifications, and drafting and negotiating provider contracts. In addition, she assists and advises clients on state regulator parity investigations and responding to Department of Managed Health Care (“DMHC”) Office of Enforcement investigations. Megan has also assisted clients to obtain licensure as health care service plans under California’s Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act.
Career & Education
- University of California, Davis, B.A., 2005
- University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D., Honor title, 2013
- California
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Member, California Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
Megan's Insights
Podcast | 02.20.25
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Gender-Affirming Care
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My! is Crowell & Moring’s health care podcast, discussing legal and regulatory issues that affect health care entities’ in-house counsel, executives, and investors.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.23.25
Tri-Agencies Release Third Mental Health Parity Report to Congress
Publication | 12.23.24
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
Representative Matters
- Defended California health care service plan in arbitration regarding payment of out-of-network services.
- Represented Medi-Cal County Organized Health System in State Fair Hearings before the California Department of Social Services.
- Represented Medi-Cal Managed Care plan in the California Superior Court on a Writ of Mandate related to the denial of Medi-Cal benefits.
- Defended California health care services plan in arbitration with a health care provider over application of contractual language related to claims editing and payment.
Megan's Insights
Podcast | 02.20.25
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Gender-Affirming Care
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My! is Crowell & Moring’s health care podcast, discussing legal and regulatory issues that affect health care entities’ in-house counsel, executives, and investors.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.23.25
Tri-Agencies Release Third Mental Health Parity Report to Congress
Publication | 12.23.24
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
Insights
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
|12.23.24
Employee Benefit Plan Review
HHS Aims to Strengthen Anti-Discrimination Rules for Disabled Patients in New Proposed Rule
|10.18.23
Crowell & Moring’s Health Law Blog
Megan's Insights
Podcast | 02.20.25
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My!: Gender-Affirming Care
Payers, Providers, and Patients – Oh My! is Crowell & Moring’s health care podcast, discussing legal and regulatory issues that affect health care entities’ in-house counsel, executives, and investors.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 01.23.25
Tri-Agencies Release Third Mental Health Parity Report to Congress
Publication | 12.23.24
Tri-Agencies Finalize NQTL Comparative Analysis Standards In Final Rule
