AHLA Health Care Transactions Manual: Understanding the Consequences of the Health Care Deal (AHLA Members)

Kim Harvey Looney (Editor, Author Chapters 2 and 8) is a partner in the Nashville office of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP where she advises health care providers on day-to-day operational issues, such as recruitment and employment, and regulatory issues, such as maintaining ongoing compliance with Stark and federal and state anti-kickback regulations. She has extensive experience with the development of integrated delivery systems such as IPAs, PHOs, and ACOs and contracting issues related to professional service, recruiting, and employment agreements. Her transactional experience includes the analysis of fraud and abuse and other regulatory issues in structuring joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and other alignments between health care providers.

Kim currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Heath Lawyers Association. She previously served as the vice chair of the AHLA's Physician Organizations Practice Group. She also previous served as chair of the TBA Section on Health Law. She regularly speaks on health care issues before the TBA and the AHLA. Kim has authored chapters in numerous AHLA publications, including Representing Physicians Handbook, The ACO Handbook, Corporate Practice of Medicine: A 50-State Survey, and Representing Hospitals and Health Systems Handbook. She is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubell, recognized by Chambers USA in the category of health care regulatory law and by Best Lawyers in the categories of Administrative / Regulatory Law; Corporate Law; Health Care Law; and Litigation-Health Care. Kim earned her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School and her B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee.

Glenn P. Prives (Editor) is an attorney with McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP’s national Health Care Practice Group. He represents a range of health care clients, including hospitals and health systems (nonprofit and for-profit), academic medical centers, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies, ancillary service providers, laboratories, medical technology companies, telemedicine companies, medical billing companies, dental groups, skilled nursing facilities, behavioral health centers, health care management companies, and investment funds and private equity firms specializing in health care. He has experience in the areas of hospital-physician alignment, mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, alliances, strategic transactions, joint ventures, recruitment matters, numerous types of contractual agreements, health care information technology, integrated delivery systems (population health), and clinical integration matters. He also has counseled clients on a variety of health care regulatory matters, including Stark, Anti-Kickback, state self-referral laws, fraud and abuse, HIPAA, health care reform, Medicare and Medicaid issues, coverage and overpayment issues, compliance, regulatory and due diligence reviews, licensure and certification issues, the corporate practice of medicine, and fee-splitting laws.

Deborah Farringer (Editor) is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of Health Law Studies at Belmont University College of Law. Deborah teaches Health Law, Health Care Fraud and Abuse, Health Care Business and Finance, Bioethics, Contracts, and Business Associations. Prior to joining the faculty at Belmont, Deborah served as Senior Associate General Counsel in the Office of General Counsel at Vanderbilt University, where her practice focused primarily on transactional matters for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including analysis of contracts for compliance with applicable health care laws such as the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, and the False Claims Act, physician practice acquisitions, joint ventures, general corporate governance and corporate maintenance issues, hospital operations, and real estate leasing and purchasing issues.

Prior to her role at Vanderbilt University, Deborah was an associate at Bass, Berry& Sims PLC where she practiced in the firm's Healthcare Industry group.

Mazen Asbahi (Chapter 7) is a Member at McDonald Hopkins LLC in its Chicago office. His practice focuses on business counseling, health care restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, startup and venture capital, securities, family and closely held business counseling, and nonprofits.

Adam Cella (Chapter 4) is an Associate in the antitrust group in Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider’s Washington, DC office. Adam's practice focuses on merger investigations, merger analysis, and antitrust counseling. Adam works on merger investigations brought by both the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.