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Ryan S. Johnson
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Email: rjohnson@fredlaw.com
Office: 612.492.7160
Assistant: Jaime Davis, 612.492.7619
PRIMARY SERVICES
“I help health care entrepreneurs, inventors, and investors achieve their business goals in a constantly changing regulatory environment.”
Overview
Experience
Articles & Presentations
Honors & Education
Professional Activities
Overview
Ryan is a nationally recognized lawyer for innovative health care companies.
Ryan has helped many of his clients develop and launch innovative business models designed to improve health care quality, accessibility, and affordability. He regularly counsels senior executives, corporate boards, and policy-makers on the strategic threats and opportunities arising from emerging technologies and new laws and regulations.
Ryan has considerable experience in structuring and negotiating health care transactions, including acquisitions, joint ventures, and financings. His clients include leading digital health and health care IT companies, national pharmacies and retail clinics, health care physician and dental management companies, international health care franchisors, independent physician practices, and many other innovative health care entrepreneurs and inventors.
Ryan frequently lectures about issues emerging from the intersection of law, science, and technology. He is a serial social entrepreneur who has founded several organizations designed to enhance the public’s support and understanding of science.
Experience
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Structuring and negotiating acquisitions, financings, equity offerings, joint ventures, strategic alliances, technology development and intellectual property licensing arrangements;
- Advising clients on a wide variety of regulatory and compliance matters (telemedicine and digital health rules and regulations, the Affordable Care Act, Stark law, FDA rules, state and federal privacy and security laws, state licensure laws, fraud and abuse prohibitions, corporate practice of medicine, etc.);
- Representing foreign companies in connection with the marketing and sale of medical device and other health care products and services in the United States;
- Leading legal strategy for clients’ national expansion efforts, including state compliance, policy-making, and government relations activities;
- Advising companies and inventors in connection with the development, licensing, and commercialization of intellectual property; and
- Representing boards of directors and independent committees on various corporate governance matters, including fiduciary duties and conflict-of-interest policies.
Articles & Presentations
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
- “Preparing Your Practice for Sale,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Webinar Series, January 18, 2017
- “Digital, Mobile and Virtual Medicine: Legal Challenges,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Webinar Series, May 11, 2016
- “Engagement on the Big Science and Technology Issues,” TEDx Gustavus, April 23, 2016
- “Complying with Telemedicine Requirements,” Lorman Webinar Series, February 25, 2016
- “Structuring and Negotiating a Health Care Transaction: Key Business and Regulatory Considerations,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Webinar Series, January 13, 2016
- Moderator, Future of Health Care Conference, University of St. Thomas, November 2010-2015
- “U.S. Health Care Regulatory and Health Care Innovation Policy,” University of Saint Thomas Mini-MBA, July 17, 2015
- “Health Care Financing: Practical Tips and Considerations,” Minnesota Cup Semi-Finalist Panel Discussion, July 15, 2015
- “U.S. Health Care Laws and Regulations: Innovating and Managing in a Regulated Environment,” University of Saint Thomas Mini-MBA, July 14, 2015
- “Health Care Regulatory Update,” CliftonLarsonAllen Nonprofit and Health Conference, May 4, 2015
- “US Health Care Policy—DC Seminar,” University of Saint Thomas, April 26-28, 2015
- “U.S. Health Care Laws and Regulations: Innovating and Managing in a Regulated Environment,” University of Saint Thomas Mini-MBA, April 21, 2015
- “U.S. Health Care Regulatory and Health Care Innovation Policy,” University of Saint Thomas Mini-MBA, April 20, 2015
- “Digital Health: Key Legal and Regulatory Considerations,” MobCon Digital Health Conference, April 8, 2015
- “Telemedicine: Legal Considerations and Government Oversight,” National Business Institute CLE, March 25, 2015
- “U.S. Health Care Laws and Regulations: Innovating and Managing in a Regulated Environment,” University of Saint Thomas Mini-MBA, November 4, 2014
- “Digital Health: Legal and Regulatory Issues Overview,” healthcare.mn, September 3, 2014
- “Strategic Consolidation: A Case Study,” MMGMA Summer Conference, July 18, 2014
- “Health Care Financing: Practical Tips and Considerations,” Minnesota Cup Semi-Finalist Panel Discussion, July 10, 201
- “Telemedicine and Telehealth,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Webinar, July 9, 2014
- Presenter, Medical Marijuana in Minnesota: The Practical Impact on Physicians and Health Care Providers, May 2014
- “Health Care Regulatory Update,” CliftonLarsonAllen Nonprofit and Health Conference, May 12, 2014
- “Physician/Hospital Joint Venture: Key Considerations,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Webinar Series, April 9, 2014
- “Negotiating a Health Care Transaction,” Minnesota CLE Health Law Institute Webinar, August 2013
- “Digital, Mobile, & Virtual Medicine,” Strafford Webinar, May 2013
- “Hot Topics in Health Care,” University of Saint Thomas Physician Leadership College, February 2012
- “U.S. Legal and Regulatory System,” World Medical Device Forum, Osaka, Japan, February 2011
- “Accountable Care Organizations: Understanding What’s Important in the Proposed Rules,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Webinar Series, Webinar Series, May 2011
- Moderator, “Technological Convergence in Diabetes Treatment,” The Collaborative, March 2011
- Moderator, Future of Health Care Conference, University of St. Thomas, November 2010-2012
- “Doing Business in the United States,” BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota Sponsored Presentation, October 2010
- Moderator, “Technological Convergence in Diagnostic Imaging,” The Collaborative, March 2010
- “Legal Considerations for Doing Business in the U.S.,” World Medical Device Forum, Osaka, Japan February 2010
- “Medical Device Regulation in the United States,” BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota Sponsored Presentation, October 2009
- “Legal Hot Topics in Health Care,” University of Saint Thomas Executive Leadership Conference, October 27, 2009
- “Red Flag Rules, Stimulus Money, HIPAA, and Other Hot Topics in Health Care Law,” North Dakota Medical Group Management Association Annual Meeting, September 24, 2009
- “Opting Out of Medicare, Concierge Care, and Other Alternative Delivery Models,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Webinar Series, September 9, 2009
- “HITECH and HIPAA: What Hospitals, Clinics, and Medical Professionals Need to Know About the New Health Information Technology Law and Changes to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Webinar Series, May 13, 2009
Publications
- “Life Sciences and the Stimulus Act - Part I: Promotion of Health Information Technology,” co-authored with Ann Ladd and Katherine Douglas, FredALERT: Life Sciences, March 5, 2009
- “Life Sciences and the Stimulus Act - Part II: Changes to HIPAA Privacy and Security Standards,” co-authored with Ann Ladd and Katherine Douglas, FredALERT: Life Sciences, March 5, 2009
- “Convenience Care Clinics Legal Considerations,” co-authored with Katherine Douglas, Minnesota Physician, October 2008
- Quoted in “Selling a Professional Practice,” by Kelly Spors, The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008
- “Revenue Ruling 2004-51: Joint Ventures Between 501(c)(3) and For-Profit Organizations,” American Health Lawyers Association Tax & Finance Practice Group Newsletter, Summer 2004
- “Joined at the HIPAA - Covered Entities and Their Business Associates,” Fredrikson & Byron Health Law Focus, Spring 2001
- “ERISA Doctor in the House: The Duty to Disclose Physician Incentives to Limit Health Care,” 82 Minnesota Law Review 1631, 1998
Honors & Education
EDUCATION
- University of Minnesota Law School, J.D. 1999, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Minnesota Law Review, Articles Editor
- Gustavus Adolphus College, B.A., 1996, Political Science/Philosophy, summa cum laude
- Oxford University, Mansfield College
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Minnesota
HONORS
- Minnesota State Bar Association, North Star Lawyer, 2015
- German Marshall Fund Fellow, October 2012—focus on health care innovation
- Cancer Legal Line, Advocate Award, 2013
- Minnesota Law & Politics, repeatedly named a Rising Star
- NASA Grant for Science Education and Innovation, 2011
- Amigos de Latino Economic Development Center Award, 2004
Professional Activities
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- University of St. Thomas, MBA in Medical Group Management, Adjunct Professor, Healthcare Policy and Legal Environment of Healthcare Management, 2005-present
- American Health Lawyers Association, Life Sciences Practice Group, Executive Committee
- Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), Fellow (2011 to present)
- University of Minnesota Joint Degree Program in Law, Health and the Life Sciences, Advisory Board,
- Life Science Alley, Alley Institute, Advisory Board, 2014
- University of Minnesota Law School, Adjunct Professor, Health Care Transactions, 2006-2010
- Minnesota State Bar Association, Health Law and Business Law Sections, Health Law Section Governing Council
- Strafford Publications, Health Law Advisory Board
- American Bar Association, Health Law and Business Law Sections
- Gustavus Adolphus College, Visiting Instructor, “Biomedical Research, Ethics and Law”
- Lead Sponsor and Judge, 2011-2015 Minnesota Cup, Biosciences Division
- Judicial Clerkship, Honorable Frank J. Magill, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1999-2000
COMMUNITY
- Northstar Science Film Festival, Founder and Executive Chairman
- sciencedebate.org, Board Member and Counsel
- BHALDI, Founder and Officer
- *Minnesota Marshall Fellow Alumni Planning Committee
- Friends of The Works, Co-Founder and Past Member
- Young Scientist Roundtable, Committee Member
- Science Museum of Minnesota, Past Member of Presidential Advisory Board and Young Professionals Committee