Donna Reuter

Counsel

Overview

Leveraging her experiences as a practitioner in the healthcare industry, Donna capably serves clients with her industry experience and her commitment to achieving client goals.

Donna is a healthcare counsel in the Washington D.C. office, and her practice focuses on serving healthcare payer, provider, association, and industry clients in a broad array of legal matters spanning both litigation and regulatory compliance. She has previously worked on a variety of disputes involving areas of ERISA; medical malpractice; COVID-19; fraud, waste and abuse; intellectual property; and more.

Donna draws from her prior career as a pharmacist to inform her practice of the law: as a pharmacy manager for a major retail chain, and later as a clinical review pharmacist for a nationwide pharmacy benefit manager in Minnesota. She understands claims adjudication and billing processes, the pharmacy distribution chain, formulary management and utilization review processes, controlled substances laws, and pharmaceutical and healthcare adjacent areas.

In addition to her dedication to pro bono work, Donna enjoys mentoring, and is co-chair of the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association’s quarterly newsletter, Bar Talk.

 

Career & Education

    • Mitchell Hamline School of Law, J.D., 2019
    • University of Minnesota, Pharm.D., 2011
    • California State University, Fresno, B.A., Mass Communication and Journalism, 2006
    • Mitchell Hamline School of Law, J.D., 2019
    • University of Minnesota, Pharm.D., 2011
    • California State University, Fresno, B.A., Mass Communication and Journalism, 2006
    • Minnesota
    • District of Columbia
    • U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
    • Minnesota
    • District of Columbia
    • U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Donna's Insights

Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.23.25

Executive Order Seeks Most-Favored-Nation Drug Pricing and HHS Announces Price Targets

On May 12, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled "Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients," which aims to reduce the costs of prescription drugs and biologics for American consumers and other payers. This Order revives a plan from President Trump’s first term and follows his April Executive Order, “Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First,” which also sought to reduce drug prices. With drug prices in the United States nearly three times higher than many other countries, this second Order asks drug manufacturers to adopt Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) pricing for drugs sold in the United States or face potential regulation. MFN pricing would tether drug prices offered in the United States to the lower-cost prices offered in other comparably developed nations, such as Canada, Germany, or the United Kingdom....

Practices

Donna's Insights

Client Alert | 3 min read | 05.23.25

Executive Order Seeks Most-Favored-Nation Drug Pricing and HHS Announces Price Targets

On May 12, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled "Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients," which aims to reduce the costs of prescription drugs and biologics for American consumers and other payers. This Order revives a plan from President Trump’s first term and follows his April Executive Order, “Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First,” which also sought to reduce drug prices. With drug prices in the United States nearly three times higher than many other countries, this second Order asks drug manufacturers to adopt Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) pricing for drugs sold in the United States or face potential regulation. MFN pricing would tether drug prices offered in the United States to the lower-cost prices offered in other comparably developed nations, such as Canada, Germany, or the United Kingdom....