Statewide law firm Broad and Cassel announced that Christine Worthen, of counsel in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office, has been named a vice chair for the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section in the tax and accounting interest group.

 

Worthen is a member of the firm’s Health Law, Taxation and Labor and Employment Practice Groups. Practicing for more than 15 years, she has extensive experience in the health care industry and most recently served as assistant general counsel to a major health care delivery system with more than 8,000 employees and $1 billion in annual revenue. Worthen has provided valuable counsel in the areas of physician employment agreements, the 340b federal drug pricing program development, compliance and operation, executive compensation agreements, health care reform compliance for the system as well as its self-insured health plan, HIPAA compliance, and provider practice acquisitions. She continues to serve as outside counsel for the system’s Pioneer ACO.