The Healthcare Litigation & Risk Management Interest Group examines areas in healthcare related to litigation and the continuum of liability control. On the litigation side, such topics include antitrust, staff privileges issues and peer review proceedings, credentialing and medical staff development planning, and bylaw interpretation. On the risk management side, such topics include monitoring national tort reform initiatives, and focusing on specific timely issues such as evidentiary protection of risk management documents, alternative dispute resolution, and utilization review/denial of care. The goal is to pursue a balanced and global approach to key issues. Thus, persons from all areas of healthcare -- hospitals, physicians or other providers, managed care organizations, long term care, among others -- who are involved in or interested in litigation and/or risk management are encouraged to participate.

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Current Interest Group Roster (776 members)
(Accessible to ABA Members)

Chairs

Chair
R. Jeffrey Layne
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Austin, TX

Vice Chairs
Joel M. Androphy
Berg & Androphy
Houston, TX

Marlene S. Garvis
Jardine Logan & O Brien PLLP
Lake Elmo, MN

Walter Johnson
Watkins & Eager PLLC
Jackson , MS

John Howard McEniry IV
Haskall Slaughter Young et al
Birmingham, AL

Liaisons

Government Submissions & Policy
Summer Martin
Powell Goldstein, LLP
Atlanta, GA

Membership
Fred A. Smith, III
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold
Chicago, IL

Technology - Vacant

• Changes to the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems and Fiscal Year 2009 Rates [08/19/2008]
• New EMTALA Rules [08/18/2008]
• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Issues Opinion In The Appeal Of The Poliner Judgment
• 42 CFR Parts 411 and 424: Medicare Program; Physicians’ Referrals to Health Care Entities With Which They Have Financial Relations (Phase II); Continuation of Effectiveness and Extension of Timeline for Publication of Final Rule. [CMS-1810-RCN]
• Testimony of Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• 2008 - 2009 Litigation & Risk Management Interest Group Action Plan
• Government Accounting Office (GOA)
• HIPAA Questions & Answers
• Health Law Professors Blog
• Federal Trade Commission, Justice Department Revise Policy Statements on Health Care Antitrust Enforcement
• The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 and Physician Peer Reviews: Success or Failure?