Symone Rosales

Director of Revenue Cycle Regulatory Research

SSM Health

Mandi Heiple

Director of Payment Integrity

Medica

Mandi Heiple is the Director of Payment Integrity at Medica, where she leads a high-performing team dedicated to ensuring accurate, compliant, and efficient claims payment across commercial and government lines of business. She oversees end-to-end payment integrity strategy – from prospective editing and coding validation to retrospective audits. Her teams drive measurable savings while protecting provider relationships and improving member experiences.

With over 20 years in healthcare operations and payment integrity, Mandi has focused on designing and implementing solutions that close process gaps, reduce improper payments, and strengthen compliance frameworks.

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Robert Frederickson III

Partner

Goodwin

Robert Frederickson, a partner in Goodwin’s Intellectual Property Litigation practice and co-chair of the firm’s Life Sciences Disputes sector, represents life sciences, technology and financial services companies in intellectual property litigation and complex commercial disputes. Robert is an experienced IP trial lawyer, having tried numerous cases to juries and judges across the country. He has won hundreds of millions of dollars in jury verdicts in patent and trade secret cases and has successfully defended life sciences and technology companies accused of intellectual property infringement and misappropriation. Robert also focuses a large part of his practice representing life sciences and technology companies in complex, commercial arbitrations, involving licensing disputes.