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Antitrust
Moderator: Christine White
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The purpose of this discussion list is to provide a forum for discussion of antitrust issues within the healthcare environment. Issues to be addressed include, but are not limited to, public and private enforcement initiatives and policies relating to network formation and operation, mergers, joint provider negotiations with payors, exclusionary practices and exemptions. Send email to: antitrust@lists.healthlawyers.org
Business Law and Governance
Moderator: Bill Horton
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This discussion list provides a forum for discussion of the broad range of business law and corporate governance issues affecting healthcare organizations and their counsel, from Sarbanes-Oxley and corporate governance matters to mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions to securities law and corporate finance to white-collar crime. It is designed to provide a valuable resource for lawyers working in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors and across all segments of the healthcare industry. Join your colleagues in staying abreast of the real-word developments in business law and governance. Send email to: blg@lists.healthlawyers.org
Children's Hospital
Moderator: Stephanie Webster and Rhonda Comer
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This discussion list provides a forum for attorneys representing children's hospitals to discuss issues unique to the Children's Hospital environment and pediatric legal issues. Send email to: chag@lists.healthlawyers.org
Compliance
Moderators: Sara Kay Wheeler and Kate Stern
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This discussion list is for discussion related to health compliance issues that apply to all healthcare providers. The main focus is on regulatory compliance with a strong emphasis on the design and implementation of compliance programs. Send email to: compliance@lists.healthlawyers.org
Emergency Medical Services
Moderators: Margaret Keavney
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The purpose of this list is to provide a forum for discussion of legal issues that arise in the course of representing pre-hospital emergency medical services and medical transportation providers, such as public and private sector ground and air ambulance providers. Issues for potential discussion include reimbursement, compliance, business transactions, and operational issues. Operational issues include such things as relationships between ambulance providers and public agency first responders, drug and supply restocking and medical directorship liability. Transactional issues include managed care contracting, contracts with health facilities and public EMS sponsors, public/private partnerships and the like. Send email to: ems@lists.healthlawyers.org
Employment Law
Moderator: Jim Bailinson
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This discussion list is for the discussion of employment law issues related to healthcare employers. It is designed for use by healthcare lawyers, both inside and outside counsel, as well as healthcare executives. Questions and discussions may cover any employment law topic including employment litigation, human resources, and traditional labor relations. Send email to: employmentlaw@lists.healthlawyers.org
Fair Market Value
Moderator: Greg Anderson
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A place for lawyers and valuators to have meaningful discussion of "fair market value" and issues related to FMV of referral source transactions, including informal discussion of specific valuation scenarios. The intent is to encourage active participation of both lawyers and members of the valuation community, for exchange of ideas related to how the structure of specific arrangements impacts fair market value and vice versa. Send email to: fmv@lists.healthlawyers.org
Food and Drug Administration
Moderator: Pamela Forrest and Neil O'Flaherty
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This discussion list provides a forum for discussion of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) legal and regulatory issues affecting the broader health care community, medical institutions, providers, manufacturers, parties seeking reimbursement or issuing reimbursement for medical goods and services, etc. Issues to be discussed include, but are not limited to: regulatory obligations of sponsors, hospitals, institutional review boards, and physician investigators participating in FDA-regulated clinical trials; reprocessing of "single use" medical devices; reporting of adverse events involving biologics, drugs, and/or devices; compliance with FDA's mammography requirements; hospital production/use of human cellular and tissue-based products; the interaction of FDA regulation and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement issues; and FDA "due diligence" matters in mergers and acquisitions involving FDA-regulated health care entities. Send email to: fda@lists.healthlawyers.org
Healthcare Reform
Moderator: Richard Sanders
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This list will focus on proposed and enacted comprehensive healthcare reform initiatives at the state and federal levels. Send email to:
hcreform@lists.healthlawyers.org
Health Information and Technology
Moderator: Alan Goldberg
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The purpose of this discussion list is to provide a forum for the discussion of health information and technology issues including those involving the development, acquisition and operation of health information systems and networks, electronic medical records, telemedicine, electronic prescribing, Internet, intranet, extranet, virtual private network, and other Internet and email communications, healthcare Web sites, extensible markup language (XML) and other web page creation features, healthcare data and data mining, encryption and public key infrastructure (PKI), privacy, confidentiality, security, electronic data interchange and HIPAA regulations, healthcare electronic commerce and electronic signatures including the eSign Law, and other computer technology-related issues affecting and affected by healthcare. Send email to: hit@lists.healthlawyers.org
Hospitals and Health Systems
Moderator: Andy Murray
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The purpose of this discussion list is to provide a forum of discussion of operational and transactional issues for in-house and outside legal counsel who represent hospitals or health systems. Operational issues include such things as patient consent, JCAHO inspections and compliance, withdrawal of treatment, patient transfer, medical records and other key operational legal issues. Transactional issues include such things as managed care contracting issues, corporate reorganization, integrated delivery systems, physician contracting, joint ventures, management contracts, M&A, financing and leasing transactions. Send email to: @lists.healthlaw...
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In-House Counsel
Moderators: Jeff Sconyers and Richard Korman
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(Please note Jeff Sconyers is on vacation till March 9, 2012. You can send your requests to Richard Korman during his absence.)
This discussion list exists for discussion of the unique issues affecting in-house counsel in all healthcare practice settings. From managing an in-house practice to selecting and retaining outside counsel to issues of confidentiality and privilege; from building an in-house library to writing a job description to unearthing compensation information, this is the list for in-house counsel. Send email to: inhouse@lists.healthlawyers.org
Liability Issues
Moderator: Alan Bloom
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This discussion list is devoted to discussing issues encountered in liability and litigation. Discovery, privilege, legal precedents, and recent cases are all part of the topics to be discussed. Send email to: liability@lists.healthlawyers.org
Life Sciences
Moderator: Jayson Slotnik
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The purpose of this discussion list is to provide a forum for discussion of issues such as food and drug law regulation, third-party payment and reimbursement (e.g., coverage, coding and payment methodologies for products), fraud and abuse, government contracts, products liability, intellectual property, clinical trials, and research. Send email to: lifesciences@lists.healthlaw...
Long Term Care
Moderator: Richard Gardner
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This discussion list provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to the entire spectrum of long term care. It includes issues relating to both the regulation and operation of all types of long term care facilities. Send email to: ltc@lists.healthlaw...
Medical Staff, Credentialing, and Peer Review
Moderator: Clark Stanton
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This discussion list is intended to provide a forum for discussion among attorneys who represent the individual healthcare professional, the collective medical or professional staff, and/or the healthcare entity with issues concerning the organization and operations of medical and professional staffs in healthcare entities and organizations, including but not limited to: the medical staff bylaws and rules; performance of medical staff responsibilities; appointments and credentialing; dealing with disruptive or impaired healthcare professionals; conducting peer review and quality assurance; taking corrective action; providing fair hearings for medical and allied health professional staffs; peer review communications and records confidentiality; National Practitioner Data Bank querying and reporting; peer review immunities; compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements pertaining to medical staff organizations, and litigation that arises out of these activities. Send email to: mscpr@lists.healthlaw...
Medicare Part D
Moderator: Claudia Schlosberg
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This discussion list is dedicated to the discussion of issues pertaining to Medicare Part D. Medicare Part D represents one of the largest sytem-wide changes in the US health care reimbursement system in many years. The purpose of this discussion list is to provide a forum for discussing the evolving implementation of the Part D outpatient prescription drug benefit, created by the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. Medicare Part D has significant cross-industry implications, and we hope that this listerve will encourage participation and open discussion by and between individual representatives of the various affected industry sectors (including Sponsors, manufacturers, providers, PBMs and others). Send email to: medicare_part_d@lists.healthlaw...
Payors, Plans, and Managed Care
Moderator: Alan Bloom
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This discussion list is for discussion related to issues of operation and regulation of health maintenance organizations, managed care payors, and employee health benefit plans, including related liability, health insurance, and payment issues. Send email to: ppmc@lists.healthlaw...
Physician Organizations
Moderator: David Lewis
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This discussion list will facilitate discussion and communication among attorneys on matters involving representation of physicians and physician organizations. The scope of issues includes: fraud and abuse analysis; joint ventures and contractual arrangements with hospitals and other providers; billing arrangements/reimbursement issues; antitrust concerns; physician compensation methodologies; credentialing; quality assurance; peer review; professional liability insurance; interaction with managed care organizations and integrated delivery systems. Send email to: physician@lists.healthlaw...
Reimbursement
Moderator: Alex Hendler
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This discussion list is designed to allow subscribers to share information and discuss issues related to reimbursement and coverage, including Medicare and other government payor laws, regulations, and instructions, as well as issues related to health care organizational accreditation such as JCAHO and other accrediting entity standards. Send email to: reimbursement@lists.healthlaw...
Solo Practitioners
Moderator: Jenny Stiller
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The purpose of this discussion list is to provide a forum where health lawyers and other specialists (such as tax lawyers) who practice on their own (or perhaps with just one other lawyer) can meet each other to share resources and ideas. Topics may include: Library materials, approaches to online research, arranging for back-up coverage, how to hire a part-time associate, and similar matters. Send email to: solopractitioners@lists.healthlaw...
Stark Law
Moderator: Bill Maruca
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This discussion list is for discussion related to information about Stark Law interpretative issues and guidance about approaches to resolving Stark Law compliance problems. Send email to: starklaw@lists.healthlaw...
State List - North Carolina
This discussion list provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to the state of North Carolina. Send email to: state_nc@lists.healthlaw...
State List - Louisiana
Moderator: Emily Grey
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This discussion list provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to the state of Louisiana. Send email to:
state_la@lists.healthlaw
Tax Issues
Moderator: Don Stuart
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This discussion list is for discussion related to tax, corporate and charitable trust issues affecting both tax-exempt and taxable healthcare and health-related organizations. The discussion includes IRS interpretive guidance, regulatory and legislative developments, attorney general opinions, agency reports, court decisions, and experiences on the audit trail. Send email to: tax@lists.healthlaw...
Teaching Hospitals
Moderator: Veronica Marsich
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This discussion list provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to the entire spectrum of teaching hospitals and academic medical centers. It includes any issues which impact both the regulation and operation of all types of teaching hospitals. Send email to: teachinghospitals@lists.healthlaw...
Young Professionals
Moderators: Vincent Dongarra, Amita Sanghvi
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This discussion list provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to the Association’s young professional members. Discussion may include substantive and topical issues. Or, it may cover the practical…what can I expect as a first year associate, how can I increase my expertise in a new subject area, how do I networkand get more visibility, what opportunities for networking and involvement exist at AHLA, and/or what social events are scheduled and where during upcoming AHLA programs. Send e-mail to: ypdiscussion@lists.healthlawyers.org.