Ms. Schubert represents medical, behavioral health, dental and vision HMOs, as well as medical groups and other managed care organizations in California and in several other states. She has extensive experience with licensure and regulatory filings with the California Department of Managed Health Care, or DMHC, for health plans regulated under the Knox-Keene Act. She started the Sacramento office of a Los Angeles-based law firm in 1998, and joined Locke Lord in 2006. Her eleven years in law firm practice followed six years as Vice President and Counsel for Foundation Health Systems (“FHS”), where she gained a broad spectrum of expertise in HMO operations and compliance while representing Foundation’s numerous subsidiaries. Before FHS, Ms. Schubert served for seven years as Lead Counsel and Senior Counsel in the Health Plan Division of the California Department of Corporations (now the DMHC), where she learned the business of HMOs from the regulator’s perspective.
Ms. Schubert regularly represents clients in front of the DMHC to obtain approvals for cutting-edge products, unusual restructurings, outsourcing arrangements, exemption requests, discount plans, and other challenging regulatory initiatives. She has recently taken lead responsibility for obtaining regulatory approvals for changes in control in six separate transactions involving health plans in California. She has assisted several Medicare Advantage plans to obtain licensure under the Knox-Keene Act, and she has represented Medi-Cal (Medicaid) plans on various issues with both the California Department of Health Care Services and the DMHC.
Ms. Schubert is an active contributor and participant in the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Committee of the California Association of Health Plans (“CAHP”). In collaboration with the DMHC and on behalf of CAHP, she developed a legal structure for Medi-Cal plans that enabled the State of California to obtain additional federal funding for California’s Medi-Cal plans.
Ms. Schubert’s depth of experience as a regulator, an in-house lawyer, and a law firm lawyer representing a variety of managed care entities gives her the full range of operational and legal expertise to achieve successful business solutions to legal and regulatory issues.
Education
- J.D., University of West Los Angeles School of Law, 1977
- B.A., Sociology, cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 1971
Bar Admissions
Publications & Presentations
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Co-Author,
"Client Alert: Under Federal Health Care Reform,"
Locke Lord
(May 6, 2010)
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Contributor,
"Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 6),"
Locke Lord
(March 24, 2010)
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Contributor,
"Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 5),"
Locke Lord
(March 8, 2010)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 4),"
Locke Lord
(March 2, 2010)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 3),"
Locke Lord
(January 25, 2010)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 2),"
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
(January 12, 2010)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. II, No. 1),"
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
(January 5, 2010)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 22),"
Locke Lord
(December 21, 2009)
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Co-Author,
"Client Alert: Changes in the California Nonprofit Corporation Law Affecting Public Benefit Corporations,"
Locke Lord
(December 16, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 21),"
Locke Lord
(December 14, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 20),"
Locke Lord
(December 7, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 19),"
Locke Lord
(November 30, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 18),"
Locke Lord
(November 23, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 17),"
Locke Lord
(November 16, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 16),"
Locke Lord
(November 9, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 15),"
Locke Lord
(November 2, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 14),"
Locke Lord
(October 26, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 13),"
Locke Lord
(October 19, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 12),"
Locke Lord
(October 12, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 11),"
Locke Lord
(October 5, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 10),"
Locke Lord
(September 28, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 9),"
Locke Lord
(September 21, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 8),"
Locke Lord
(September 14, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 7),"
Locke Lord
(September 8, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 6),"
Locke Lord
(August 31, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 5),"
Locke Lord
(August 24, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 4),"
Locke Lord
(August 17, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 3),"
Locke Lord
(August 10, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 2),"
Locke Lord
(August 3, 2009)
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Contributor,
"Weekly Health Care Reform Update (Vol. I, No. 1),"
Locke Lord
(July 27, 2009)
Professional History
- Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
- Partner, K&R Law Group LLP
- Vice President and Counsel, Foundation Health Systems
- Lead Counsel, Health Care Division, California Department of Corporations (predecessor to the Department of Managed Health Care)
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- Former Chairperson, Sacramento County Bar Association, Health Care Law Section
- Former President, Sacramento Young Lawyers Association
- Member, State Bar of California
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