The law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman have announced that leading healthcare attorneys Gerry Hinkley and Allen Briskin, both formerly of law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, have joined the San Francisco office of Pillsbury’s healthcare practice.

Hinkley will serve as co-chair of the firm’s health industry practice along with Pillsbury partner David Main, a noted healthcare transactional and public policy attorney based in the Washington, D.C. area, who also chairs the firm’s health regulatory practice and who previously was counsel to the U.S. Senate Health sub-committee.

Hinkley counsels hospitals on issues such as corporate governance, regulatory compliance, reimbursement, capital finance, joint ventures, and clinic development. He also advises health information exchanges regarding governance, privacy, tax-exemption, user participation, consent, and risk management. A recognized national leader in the health information technology field, Hinkley offers clients extensive experience in information technology procurement.

Briskin has more than 20 years of experience representing for-profit, non-profit, and government healthcare clients in organizational, corporate, and business matters, with an emphasis in managed healthcare and other health plan and health insurance issues. He represents coordinated care plans, insurers, providers, and others in licensing, regulatory compliance, and contracting matters. Briskin also focuses on health information technology, helping clients in a range of issues, including developing and promoting community health information exchange networks.

As part of its ongoing expansion of the firm’s healthcare team, Pillsbury also recently hired associate Douglas Grimm. A Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, Grimm represents academic medical centers, hospitals, physician practices, healthcare e-Commerce companies, managed care organizations, provider networks, and other healthcare providers in structuring, negotiating, and implementing a broad range of clinical and administrative transactions, with a particular focus on fraud and abuse and HIPAA issues. He represents clients before the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Department of Justice, and various state Medicaid Fraud Control Units.