Speaker Profile

William Copeland and Barry Weinbaum

Principal & CEO,

William Mack Copeland MS, JD, Ph.D., LFACHE, practices health care law in Cincinnati at the firm of Copeland Law, LLC. He is also president of Executive & Managerial Development Group, a consulting entity providing compliance and other fraud and abuse-related services. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Bill is a frequent author and speaker on health law topics.

Copeland is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American, Ohio, and Cincinnati Bar Associations and is a life fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He was awarded the American College of Health Care Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent's Award in 2007.

Barry Weinbaum received his Master’s Health Sciences/Comprehensive Health Planning degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. He has 30 years of CEO and C-suite level experience managing hospitals in California, Florida, and Chicago. Later in his career, he joined PMB, LLC, a nationally recognized healthcare real estate development firm in 2006 as SVP of Business Development until becoming President, of BSA Healthcare Consulting in 2019.

BSA evaluates ambulatory programming and related on and off-campus clinic real estate development opportunities for hospitals and health systems. Services include providing site identification and entitlement analysis, space programming and related preliminary design, project costing, financial/ROI analysis, and project implementation services if desired. As a former hospital CEO, Barry can recognize opportunities for hospitals to grow their market share and has a keen understanding of physician/hospital relationships and alignment strategies working with Hospital leadership on a granular level approach. Barry continues to maintain an independent contractor relationship with PMB for the ability to evaluate and implement large-scale ambulatory medical building, parking, senior housing, and post-acute care real estate development projects.

He also speaks on the topic of being a target of a federal investigation and his experience being a defendant in two federal trials relating to Anti-Kickback Statute physician recruitment charges.