Directories

1995 Colloquim on Tax Issues

Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Institute Planning Committee

Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Practice Group

The Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Practice Group provides a forum for attorneys who are employed by and/or service AMCTHs in the healthcare industry. The Practice Group addresses the practical legal issues arising from the interpretation and application of law and regulations to the operations of health care providers, payors, regulators, and suppliers as they affect AMCTHs. The Practice Group presents summaries and brief analyses of forms, models, approaches, structures, and legal analyses relevant to the successful operation of an in-house legal service for a AMCTH as well as those attorneys who service a AMCTH.

Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Practice Group LDP

Accountable Care Organization Task Force

The mission of the Accountable Care Organization Task Force is to monitor and evaluate the implementing statutes, regulations, cases, and secondary materials concerning ACOs. The Task Force provides written materials, webinars, and in-person educational activities to assist AHLA's members to implement ACOs and comply with ACO laws and rules. Since the ACO subject matter is so broad, and impacts the missions and interests of so many Practice Groups, the ACO Task Force is a multi-disciplinary/multi-group entity, and focuses its efforts on the production of a coherent and effective line of ACO-related educational materials using a variety of media and employing AHLA’s vast resources.

Accountable Care Organization, Payment Innovation, and Health Care Reform Educational Task Force

Ad Hoc Governance Committee

Advising Providers Planning Committee

AHLA 2030 Task Force

AHLA Board of Directors

AHLA Communities Moderators

Moderators of the topical discussion lists and professional forums, located on the AHLA Communities site.

AHLA Protech

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Task Force

AMCTH – Children’s Health Affinity Group

This Affinity Group is designed for those Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Practice Group members who work with or for a healthcare institution dedicated to children's healthcare needs. The Affinity Group will explore medico-legal issues that are unique to providing healthcare to children such as consent, S-CHIP programs, Medicaid funding, guardianship, and state protective services agencies. Additionally, the Affinity Group will cover issues impacting children's academic medical centers including research and GME matters.

Annual Meeting Planning Committee

Antitrust - Email Alerts

Quickly alert members to important antitrust developments.

Antitrust - Member Briefings

Produce a Member Breifing on legal and economic aspects of a specific area.

Antitrust - New Member Solicitation

Solicitation of new members from AHLA members who note they practice antitrust law; solicitation of economists for both AHLA and Antitrust Practice Group.

Antitrust in Healthcare Planning Committee

Antitrust Practice Group

The Antitrust Practice Group addresses public and private enforcement activity and competition policy affecting all sectors of the healthcare industry, including healthcare providers, health insurers, and medical device and pharmaceutical companies. The Practice Group also maintains a listserve, publishes Member Briefings, and sponsors teleconferences and seminars.

Antitrust Practice Group LDP

AUDIT COMMITTEE (Now Finance Committee)

Changed to the Finance Committee

Behavioral Health Practice Group

The Behavioral Health (BH) Practice Group is committed to advancing the understanding of laws impacting behavioral health, including the delivery of services to those living with mental illness, certain neurological conditions, substance use disorders or developmental disabilities, and reimbursement for such services. A complex framework of federal and state laws concerning privacy, information sharing and exchange, reimbursement, involuntary commitment, and other subjects provides unique challenges to healthcare providers and payors of behavioral health services. Scientific, legislative, and other developments, including healthcare reform, have presented new issues and opportunities in this area, including primary and behavioral healthcare integration initiatives, insurance coverage parity mandates, changes to Medicaid, and evolving public policy, to name a few. The BH Practice Group will monitor and evaluate these laws and developments through written materials, webinars, and in-person educational activities so that AHLA members are better equipped to advise clients on behavioral health topics. In addition, the work of the BH Practice Group will serve to raise awareness about how behavioral health laws influence health improvement efforts, and will include collaborative efforts with AHLA's Public Interest activities.

Behavioral Health Task Force

The Behavioral Health (BH) Task Force is committed to advancing the understanding of laws impacting behavioral health, including the delivery of services to those living with mental illness, certain neurological conditions, substance use disorders or developmental disabilities, and reimbursement for such services. A complex framework of federal and state laws concerning privacy, information sharing and exchange, reimbursement, involuntary commitment, and other subjects provides unique challenges to healthcare providers and payors of behavioral health services. Scientific, legislative, and other developments, including healthcare reform, have presented new issues and opportunities in this area, including primary and behavioral healthcare integration initiatives, insurance coverage parity mandates, changes to Medicaid, and evolving public policy, to name a few. The BH Task Force will monitor and evaluate these laws and developments through written materials, webinars, and in-person educational activities so that AHLA members are better equipped to advise clients on behavioral health topics. In addition, the work of the BH Task Force will serve to raise awareness about how behavioral health laws influence health improvement efforts, and will include collaborative efforts with AHLA's Public Interest activities.

Behavioral Health Task Force LDP

Behavioral Health Task Force-Work Group

BLG - Governance Affinity Group

Governance issues continue to dominate the agenda of federal and state legislators as well as regulators. Additionally, courts routinely render opinions on matters impacting good governance policies, as well as fiduciary duties of directors and senior officers of corporations. The Governance Affinity Group follows developments, and educates AHLA members on governance issues, both for the for-profit and nonprofit healthcare sector. The Affinity Group allows greater opportunities for networking and encourages exchanges of views on governance issues.

BLG - Transactions Affinity Group

The Transactions Affinity Group highlights the structural, corporate, securities, regulatory, tax, and accounting issues implicated in merger and acquisition transactions, all with an emphasis on features that are unique to deals in the healthcare industry. Despite the difficult economic climate caused by the collapse of the credit markets, healthcare transactions continue to close. In fact, many in the industry believe that the lack of credit may accelerate deal activity, as poorly capitalized, unprofitable institutions are forced to seek partners or buyers. The Transactions Affinity Group focuses on developments in deals prevalent in the healthcare industry, from hospital acquisitions and dispositions, to consolidations in the pharmaceutical industry, to joint ventures and other arrangements among the service providers, biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies, and payors. The Affinity Group plans to cover case law developments highlighting decisions that will shape the way transactions are structured and consummated. We will follow developments in financing and capitalizing for profit and not-for-profit providers, and highlight select bankruptcy law matters that impact healthcare transactions. Further, the Transactions Affinity Group intends to follow healthcare regulatory developments to position itself to predict transactional trends. As with most of the Practice Groups within AHLA, the Transactions Affinity Group will follow developments within the new Obama Administration as healthcare is reformed, with a view towards identifying those changes that will affect the structure of new industry deals, as well as the unwinding of existing transactions.

BLG- International Healthcare

This Affinity Group explores legal, regulatory, and business issues arising from the globalization of American healthcare. Educational programming will be provided to assist AHLA members on how to counsel domestic clients on doing business in foreign venues and foreign clients doing business in the United States.

Business Law and Governance Practice Group