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Attorney
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Attorney
Career Profiles of the Profession
Who?
What?
Primary Practice Area & Subspecialty Fields:
Corporate healthcare; M&A, Medicare Reimbursement and Fraud and Abuse; Managed Care and Compliance
When?
Years in Practice Area:
Since 1979
Years in the Legal Profession:
Since 1979
Where?
Employer:
Latham & Watkins
http://www.lw.com
Size/Sector:
over 1800 attorneys internationally.
City/State:
San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA
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Law School:
Washington University
Other Post Graduate Education:
University of California, Berkeley, MBA Finance
Undergraduate School/Degree:
B.A. Economics, University of Maryland and Certified Accountant, Maryland
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Why?
Pluses/Challenges of Practice Area:
Diverse, ever changing.
Core Skills/Key Knowledge Needed in Your Practice Area:
Corporate, regulatory and general healthcare.
Advice to Lawyers and Law Students Interested in Your Practice Area:
Be prepared to continually adjust your practice and areas of expertise.
How?
Career Path to Current Position:
Placed into healthcare at the Ober firm in Baltimore.
Influences and Mentors:
Leonard Homer, Esq., Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver.
Suggested Reading About Your Practice Area:
Demuro, P., The Fundamentals of Managed Care & Network Development (McGraw-Hill, 1999); DeMuro, P. and Hayman, R. Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions: The Transactional Perspective (BNA 1996).
Job Search Techniques Used in Finding Your Position(s):
My former partner asked me if I would consider joining Latham with him.
Bar Affiliations and Activities:
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA);
American Health Lawyers Association (formerly National Health Lawyers Association and American Academy of Healthcare Attorneys);
Member 1982 to present.
Member Fraud and Abuse and Self-Referral Substantive Law Committee, 1997 to present.
California Bar Association;
San Francisco Bar Association;
Los Angeles County Bar Association (member, Section on Health Law);
American Bar Association (member, Health Law Section)
Member, Transactional and Business Health Care Interest Group
Chairperson, Program Committee, 2000 to present
Member, Governing Council, term 2000 to 2003.
Recent Professional Publications:
Co-author, article, Emerging Issues in Electronic Health,
Health Care Restructuring:Surviving and Thriving in the New Millennium,
Practising Law Institute (2001);
Author, article Provider Segment Overview: Finding Value, Opportunities
and Financing for Health Care M&A, Health Care MCA 2000, Practising
Law Institute (2000);
Author, The Fundamentals of Managed Care & Network Development
(McGraw-Hill, 1999);
Co-author, The Healthcare Executive’s Guide to Fraud and Abuse
Issues (AIS 1998).
Author, The Financial Manager’s Guide To Managed Care and Integrated
Delivery Systems (Irwin 1995) ;
Co-author of Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions: The Transactional
Perspective (BNA 1996);
Editor and contributing author for the Aspen publications Topics in Health Care Financing Issue on Integrated Delivery Systems (1994).
I have authored over 40 publications on Medicare reimbursement, fraud and abuse, physician practice management organizations, integrated delivery systems, M&A, capital finance, and managed care related topics.
Recent Professional Presentations:
Privacy Preemption of State Laws and Business Associate Issues,
2001 HIPAA Exchange, Real World Strategie, JHITA, La Jolla, California,
May 23, 2001.
with Barbara Bennett, Emerging Issues in Electronic Health,
Health Care Restructuring:Surviving and Thriving in the New Millennium,
Practising Law Institute New York, April 26, 2001
Medicare + Choice, AHLA Medicare and Medicaid Conference,
Baltimore, Maryland, March 29 and 30, 2001.
Health Care Transactional Structure, Southwest Texas Healthcare
Association, Dallas, Texas, March 12, 2001.
Spinoff of Physician Practices , HFMA CFOs Conference,
Las Vegas, Nevada, March 5, 2001.
Ethics, ABA Emerging Issues Conference, Orlando, Florida,
February 9, 2001.
Recent Health Care Corporate and Regulatory Developments,
Fulcrum Information Services 2nd Annual Lending to and Investing
In Troubled Health Care Companies, New York, New York, November
14, 2000.
Physicians AHLA, Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Compliance
and Enforcement, Washington, D.C., November 2 and 3, 2000.
Provider Based Status Rules, Including Hospital Within
a Hospital, ABA 2000 Medicare Annual Update, San Francisco,
California, October 27 and 28, 2000
Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA): Implementation For The Industry, HFMA Tenth Annual
Conference on Managed Care, San Francisco, California, September
19, 2000.
Key Issues: Prioritization Based on Trends, Current Events,
HFMA Annual Corporate Compliance Conference, Washington, D.C.,
August 25, 2000.
Health Care M&A, ABA Annual Meeting, London, England, July
20, 2000.
Attorney Client Privilege in the Corporate Setting, National
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Lawyers Conference, San
Francisco, California, May 25, 2000.
Legal Ethics, ABA Fraud Institute, San Francisco, California,
May 6, 2000.
Provider Segment Overview: Finding Value, Opportunities and
Financing for Health Care M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions, Practising Law Institute, New York,
New York, May 1-2, 2000.
Medicare+Choice, 1999 AHLA Institute on Medicare and Medicaid
Payment Issues, Baltimore, Maryland, March 30-31, 2000.
Restructuring, Panelist, Renaissance American Management
National Restructuring Conference, Chicago, Illiniois, March 9,
2000.
Negotiating and Documenting the Acquisition/Sale of Health
Care Companies, Law Education Institute, Inc. National CLE
Conference 2000, Vail, Colorado, January 15, 2000.
Anatomy of a Capitation Contract, AHLA Managed Care Conference,
Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 1999.
Corporate Compliance, Colorado Bar Association and Colorado
HFMA Conference, Denver, Colorado, December 3, 1999.
A Look at Healthcare DT from the Financial Suite, Panelist,
National Internet Conference for Health Management Technology,
published at Page 20, January 2000, Health Management Technology.
Memorable Career Moment:
Being asked to become a member of the ABA Health Law Section Governing Counsel.
Intriguing Interests:
Skiing, sailing, golf, traveling, spending time with my wife and three daughters.
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