Staff and Board of Directors

Christine Burke Worthen provides legal and strategic guidance on managed care and value-based contracting across all service lines at Northern Light Health. She also provides ERISA counsel and other legal guidance related to the system’s welfare and retirements benefit plans. Her managed care and value-based legal counsel covers areas such as compliance with Medicare Advantage plan rules, emerging payment models, CMMI initiatives, including MSSP and Primary Care First, telehealth, as well as privacy and security matters related to data integration for value-based reimbursement models. Prior to assuming her latest role, she was Chair of the Healthcare Services Practice Group at Pierce Atwood in Portland, ME and Boston, MA where she guided health care organizations on managed care contracting, accountable care organizations and other emerging reimbursement models, risk based contracting, network design, telemedicine, health privacy and security laws, (including HIPAA), and the 340b federal drug pricing program. She also provided counsel to healthcare organizations in the design and implementation of telemedicine programs and guided on compliance with the various state and federal laws that impact telemedicine such as state licensure, scope of practice, reimbursement, privacy and security, fraud and abuse, and contracting. She practiced with Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel prior to joining Pierce Atwood. She began her career with Grant Thornton in Boston, MA. She holds an L.L.M in Taxation from Boston University School of Law, a J.D. from New England Law, and received her B.A., cum laude, from Boston University.