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Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, Troy
Mark R. Adams serves as the co-managing partner of the firm's Michigan office. Mr. Adams focuses his law practice on business and transactional law, real estate, corporate law, taxation and complex commercial litigation. He represents both nonprofit and for-profit enterprises. Mr. Adams spends a significant portion of his time advising academic medical centers and ambulatory surgery centers on a variety...
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Honigman LLP, Washington, DC
Herbert F. Allen serves as cochair of the firm’s Antitrust and Unfair Trade Practices Practice Group. Mr. Allen defends M&A transactions before the FTC, DOJ, and state antitrust enforcers. He is an experienced litigator on antitrust issues in the health care and pharmaceutical sectors, and has secured antitrust approval for dozens of M&A transactions involving physician groups, surgery centers, and...
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Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Okemos
Amy J. Barkholz is general counsel for the MHA, a trade association that represents Michigan’s 132 community hospitals and the patients they serve. She serves as chief legal officer for the association and its related entities, including the MHA Keystone Center, Health Foundation, and Service Corporation. Ms. Barkholz is part of the executive team and has been with the organization...
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Benkoff Health Law PLLC, Bloomfield Hills
Reesa N. Benkoff is the principal attorney at the firm. She practices in all areas of health care law and focuses on transactional and regulatory matters. Ms. Benkoff counsels and represents various health providers nationwide on a variety of issues, including Stark, anti-kickback laws, physician matters, EKRA, acquisitions and transactions, employment and other contracts, health care corporate matters, HIPAA, and...
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Ascension Michigan, Saint Louis, MO
Kelly M. Bondy is a senior in-house counsel for the health system, with a focus on commercial real estate. She navigates legal and compliance issues for its multi-state real estate portfolio and provides counsel on national initiatives as well as local transactions. Before joining the health system, Ms. Bondy was a lawyer at a national health care law firm and...
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Miller Johnson, Grand Rapids
Allyson T. Bremer is an associate in the firm’s business and corporate practice with the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) group representing businesses and providers in commercial transactions, behavioral healthcare, and healthcare regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Bremer is a member of the State Bar of Michigan Health Care Law Section, serving on the New Lawyers and Law Students Committee and Substantive...
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Dykema, Bloomfield Hills
Liza R. Brooks focuses her practice on supply chain operations, health information technology, and clinical research compliance. From vendor contracting to distribution, Ms. Brooks advises clients on sourcing and procurement strategies that aim to mitigate risks, create efficiencies, and reduce operational costs. She has in-depth experience advising clients on clinical research issues, including negotiating clinical trial agreements, managing conflicts of...
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Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, Troy
Elizabeth Callahan has over 25 years of experience representing and advising health systems, physician practices, health plans and universities. Her practice focuses on privacy and security, regulatory compliance, data governance, international programs, and patient care matters. Ms. Callahan regularly guides clients through internal and government investigations of privacy and security incidents, False Claims Act violations, and discrimination actions. Prior...
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Henry Ford Health, Detroit
Susanne E. Crysler is an accomplished healthcare compliance lawyer with more than 21 years of combined private practice and in house experience. Ms. Crysler currently serves as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for the health system, providing strategic leadership for the system’s corporate compliance, internal audit, and enterprise risk programs. Prior to this role, she was senior counsel at...
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit
Mercedes Varasteh Dordeski is assistant general counsel with the organization. Ms. Dordeski focuses in the areas of provider contracting, including value-based contracting; supporting BCBSM’s pharmacy division; and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining BCBSM, Ms. Dordeski served as corporate counsel for an NCQA-accredited managed behavioral health organization. She is a frequent speaker and author on health law issues, and has written...
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McLaren Health Plan, Flint
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Henry Ford Health, Detroit
GinaMarie Geheb is a senior in-house counsel for Henry Ford Health with a focus on regulatory compliance, patient care matters, and provider networks. Prior to this role, Ms. Geheb was head of office for Ascension Health’s Michigan market and was in private practice at a nationally recognized law firm. She partners closely with senior executives on strategic alignment, incident command...
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Butzel Long PC, Ann Arbor
Debra A. Geroux is cochair of the health care industry group for the firm and primarily practices in the health care law and data privacy areas. She has advised a myriad of healthcare practitioners and entities regarding data privacy, including cybersecurity incident response and reporting, supply chain contracting, health care fraud and abuse, professional licensure, and other regulatory and legislative...
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Jones Day, Detroit
Gerald M. Griffith represents clients in health care transactions and tax controversies, focusing on cutting-edge affiliation structures and high-stakes IRS audits for more than 30 years. His transactional practice focuses on complex transactions, with an emphasis on joint ventures (domestic and international), joint operating agreements (JOAs), and acquisitions. He has defended leading hospitals, health systems, and managed care plans and...
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Jones Day, Detroit
Ann T. Hollenbeck is an experienced lawyer who focuses on health care reform, ACOs and clinical integrated networks, fraud and abuse, and telemedicine. Her experience includes advising on the structure of a value-based collaboration between specialty physicians and hospitals in response to health care reform initiatives and advising several hospitals on compliance issues arising from transactions and fraud and abuse...
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Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Lansing
Larry Horvath currently serves as the director of the Bureau of Community and Health Systems (BCHS) within the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA). The bureau has regulatory oversight for state licensing of facilities, agencies and programs including nursing homes, hospitals, surgery centers, hospices, and substance use disorder programs as well as nurse and medication aides and American...
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The Health Law Partners PC, Farmington Hills
Robert S. Iwrey, a founding partner of the firm, has been a practicing litigator since 1993, specializing in health care transactional law since 1999. He provides counsel in all areas of health care law, including but not limited to licensure, DEA investigations, staff privileges, employment and health care- related contracts, physician practice issues, third-party payor issues, government investigations, and audit...
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Honigman LLP, Detroit
Matthew R. Keuten is a partner in his firm’s Health Care Practice Group and focuses his practice primarily on advising clients in connection with health care regulatory, corporate, and transactional matters. A significant portion of his practice is dedicated to representing clients in a wide array of transactions involving information technology matters, including drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, such as...
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Warner Norcross + Judd LLP, Grand Rapids
Madelaine Lane is an accomplished white-collar criminal defense attorney, assisting clients with everything from complex civil investigations involving high-volume documents and high-risk publicity, to responding to discovery requests and conducting internal investigations, to creating convincing litigation strategies and leading a persuasive criminal defense at trial. She has extensive experience working in several sectors, including higher education, automotive, health care, finance...
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Jones Day, Detroit
Tyler Loveall focuses his practice on the representation of hospitals, health systems, physician group practices, digital health care companies, and other health care entities. Mr. Loveall advises health care clients on complex regulatory issues, such as digital health, corporate practice of medicine, clinical research, the international practice of medicine, value-based care, and pharmacy practice, and represents health care entities in...
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McCall Hamilton Law PLC, Lansing
Melissa D. Reitz joined the firm in 1999. Since becoming an associate in 2003, she has focused her practice on Certificate of Need (CON), in both its regulatory and policy aspects, and has earned a reputation as one of the premier CON consultants in Michigan. In addition, Ms. Reitz has extensive experience in health facility licensing and other healthcare regulations....
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Warner Norcross + Judd LLP, Detroit
Alan T. Rogalski practices in the area of health care law. In addition to his JD from the University of Detroit, Mr. Rogalski is also a licensed pharmacist with a BS degree in Pharmacy from Wayne State University. He is an adjunct instructor of pharmacy practice at the Wayne State University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health. As an attorney,...
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Radiology Partners, Northville
Wedad Suleiman serves as assistant corporate counsel and compliance officer for one of the largest radiology practices in the United States. Ms. Suleiman’s experience in health care compliance includes advising health care practices, facilities, and related entities on Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, False Claims Act, and Medicare exclusion concerns; HIPAA/HITECH data breach matters; telemedicine; and reimbursement disputes. Ms. Suleiman also...
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Warner Norcross + Judd LLP, Grand Rapids
Adam B. Townshend is a partner at the firm in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution and White Collar Criminal Defense practice groups. He defends health care providers in litigation, conducts internal investigations, and proactively advises providers on compliance matters arising under federal and state law, including the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Stark Law. Before joining the firm, Mr....
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Priority Health,
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Henry Ford Health, Detroit
Lauren Willens is the lead intellectual property (IP), information technology (IT), and data privacy counsel for the health system. Ms. Willens is responsible for leading the Innovations and IT departments; drafting and negotiating commercial agreements relating to the use of system IP; protecting patient data; and reviewing agreements for HIPAA compliance, commercial transactions, and IP matters, including brand development, procurement,...
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Miller Johnson, Grand Rapids
Neil D. Williams focuses his practice on transactional and business planning matters, with an emphasis on taxation. Mr. Williams has significant experience advising both public and private clients on the taxation of domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures and restructurings. He has advised clients through the entire M&A life cycle, including preclose negotiations, due diligence and structuring,...
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