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View program videos: Policy Panel • Transactions Panel |
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| Health Care Program Handouts | Alston & Bird Health Reform Chart (check the Alston & Bird Web site for future reform chart updates) |
To successfully navigate the waters of health care reform, the legal profession first needs to better understand both the policy and the transactional issues, including mergers and acquisitions, that will arise as a result of proposed legislation.
Participants can expect the panelists to:
- Describe the principal elements of current proposed legislation
- Provide insights into the implications of impending policy shifts
- Explain how expected changes will affect the structure of the health care industry
- Predict the impact of reform on antitrust, mergers, and acquisitions on health care clients
- Provide helpful hints for supporting and advising clients
Agenda |
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| 4:30 | Registration | |
| 5:15 | Introduction | Co-Chairs: Samuel C. Thompson Jr., Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions, Penn State Law, University Park, PA Robert T. Harper, Co-chair, Health Law Section, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Health Care Reform: Policy This panel will focus principally on the major policy issues presented in health care reform. The panel will start with a review of the current state of the reform process in the U.S. Congress. |
Moderator: Marilyn K. Yager, Senior Policy Advisor, Alston + Bird LLP, Washington, D.C. Panelists: Ronald E. Chronister, former Deputy Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Insurance Department, and Specialist/Insurance Industry Consultant, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Harrisburg, PA Robert J. Cindrich, Sr. Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel, UPMC Health System, Pittsburgh, PA R. Mark Faulkner, Partner, McQuaide Blasko, Counsel to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, State College, PA William P. Follansbee, MD, FACC, FACP, FASNC, The Master Clinician Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor of Radiology, and Director, Nuclear Cardiology, UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA Deirdre McCaughey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Administration, Penn State University, University Park, PA (will provide comments on the Canadian system) |
| 6:55 | Questions from live audience and webcast participants |
Facilitated by Penn State Law Student Health Law Association |
| 7:05 |
Break with Refreshments | |
| 7:20 | Health Care Reform: Impact on Health Care Business and Transactions Including Mergers and Acquisitions This panel will discuss the likely impact of health care reform on the structure and operation of the health care business and transactions, including access to financing and potential consolidations within the health care industry. |
Moderator: Robert T. Harper, Co-chair, Health Law Section, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Pittsburgh, PA Panelists: Martin A. Corry, Director of Federal Health Policy, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Washington, D.C. Keith J. Crocker, The William Elliott Chaired Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, Smeal College of Business, University Park, PA Robert Cucuel, President and CEO, Critical Homecare Solutions, Conshohocken, PA Mark Francis, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey, Healthcare Investment Banking, Dallas, TX George A. Huber, Professor and Associate Dean, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy & Management, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 8:50 | Questions from live audience and webcast participants |
Facilitated by Penn State Law Student Health Law Association |
| 9:00 | Adjourn | |
Presented by Penn State’s Center for the Study of Mergers and Acquisitions
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