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 | 3 min read | 05.16.25

Trump Administration Pauses Enforcement of the MHPAEA Final Rule

The Departments of Labor (“DOL”), Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Treasury (the “Tri-Agencies”) have signaled that changes may be coming to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) Final Rule issued on September 8, 2024. On May 9, 2025, the Tri-Agencies filed a Motion for Abeyance in a lawsuit brought by the ERISA Industry Committee (“ERIC”) challenging the 2024 final MHPAEA regulations in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[1] The Motion, which was granted by the Court, indicated that the Tri-Agencies intend to “reconsider” the Final Rule, including “whether to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking rescinding or modifying the Final Rule.” Yesterday, on May 15, 2025, the Tri-Agencies issued a notice of non-enforcement stating that they “will not enforce the 2024 Final Rule or otherwise pursue enforcement actions, based on a failure to comply that occurs prior to a final decision in the litigation, plus an additional 18 months.”...

Recognition

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

Alice's Insights

Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.16.25

Trump Administration Pauses Enforcement of the MHPAEA Final Rule

The Departments of Labor (“DOL”), Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Treasury (the “Tri-Agencies”) have signaled that changes may be coming to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) Final Rule issued on September 8, 2024. On May 9, 2025, the Tri-Agencies filed a Motion for Abeyance in a lawsuit brought by the ERISA Industry Committee (“ERIC”) challenging the 2024 final MHPAEA regulations in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[1] The Motion, which was granted by the Court, indicated that the Tri-Agencies intend to “reconsider” the Final Rule, including “whether to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking rescinding or modifying the Final Rule.” Yesterday, on May 15, 2025, the Tri-Agencies issued a notice of non-enforcement stating that they “will not enforce the 2024 Final Rule or otherwise pursue enforcement actions, based on a failure to comply that occurs prior to a final decision in the litigation, plus an additional 18 months.”...

Alice's Insights

Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.16.25

Trump Administration Pauses Enforcement of the MHPAEA Final Rule

The Departments of Labor (“DOL”), Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Treasury (the “Tri-Agencies”) have signaled that changes may be coming to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) Final Rule issued on September 8, 2024. On May 9, 2025, the Tri-Agencies filed a Motion for Abeyance in a lawsuit brought by the ERISA Industry Committee (“ERIC”) challenging the 2024 final MHPAEA regulations in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[1] The Motion, which was granted by the Court, indicated that the Tri-Agencies intend to “reconsider” the Final Rule, including “whether to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking rescinding or modifying the Final Rule.” Yesterday, on May 15, 2025, the Tri-Agencies issued a notice of non-enforcement stating that they “will not enforce the 2024 Final Rule or otherwise pursue enforcement actions, based on a failure to comply that occurs prior to a final decision in the litigation, plus an additional 18 months.”...