
Chris Allman, JD, CPHRM, DFASHRM
Christopher Allman is the Senior Director of Compliance & Risk for Dispatch Health, a national Hospital Service Alternative Provider located in Denver, Colorado. During his more than twenty-eight years as an attorney, Mr. Allman has focused his career on general health law, including all areas of regulatory compliance on the federal and state levels, healthcare risk management, and litigation.
More specifically, Mr. Allman’s has provided expertise in areas of strict government regulation, such as Stark, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act and HIPAA, as those matters become increasingly complex in today’s environment. Mr. Allman is the 2025 ASHRM President and a co-author of “Case Law Update”, a column that appears in the quarterly American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) Journal of Healthcare Risk Management.
He has also published articles and spoken on a variety of healthcare topics, including enterprise risk management, HIPAA, licensing matters, risk management in long term care facilities, and was a contributor to the ASHRM Healthcare Claims and Litigation Playbook, the ASHRM Leadership Playbook and an associate editor of the ASHRM ERM Playbook.
Mr. Allman is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM), a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (DFASHRM), a Past President of the Michigan Society of Healthcare Risk Management, has served as the Chair of the ASHRM Advocacy Task Force from 2012-2014 and on the ASHRM ERM Task Force and as an ASHRM Advisory Board Member from 2020-2022.
In addition to his current activity with the ASHRM, he is also an active member of the State Bar of Michigan – Health Law Section and the American Health Law Association. Mr. Allman graduated from Wayne State University Law School in 1996 and Hope College in 1992.