AHLA Representing Hospitals and Health Systems Handbook (Non-Members)

Emily Black Grey is a Partner with Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P. She is a board-certified Health Law Specialist who has practiced health law for almost 25 years. She is a member of the firm’s Management Committee, and Best Lawyers has named her the 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” in Health Care Law in Baton Rouge. Emily is one of only three Louisiana lawyers ranked in Band 1 by Chambers USA.

Emily’s clients describe her as “extremely knowledgeable and extraordinarily helpful.” She is known for her experience in the field, particularly in the intersection of state regulatory and federal requirements. Her clients include hospitals, behavioral health providers and addiction treatment centers, surgery centers, pharmacies, physicians, laboratories, healthcare management and consulting companies and other healthcare businesses. She represents healthcare providers in operational matters, regulatory and compliance issues, contracting, licensing and enrollment, reimbursement and payment disputes, healthcare transactions, and other business matters. Healthcare providers have also engaged her as a health law expert in litigation and arbitration.

Emily currently serves on the American Health Law Association Board of Directors. She has also held leadership positions in the American Bar Association House of Delegates (which establishes national ABA policies), the Louisiana State Bar Association’s Health Law Section (as Vice Chair), the Louisiana Law Institute (the state’s official law revision commission), and the Baton Rouge Bar Association. She is also a frequent speaker and author on health care issues, with more than 130 presentations and publications, including many for the American Health Law Association and the Louisiana Hospital Association. Emily is licensed in Louisiana and Texas, is a health law arbitrator, and has served as adjunct faculty, teaching health law at the LSU Law Center.

Travis G. Lloyd is a partner at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC in Nashville, Tennessee. He focuses his practice on complex health care regulatory matters, particularly in the areas of fraud and abuse, reimbursement, and the licensure, certification, and accreditation of health care facilities. Travis represents a broad range of health care industry clients, with a particular focus on hospitals and health systems. His experience includes acting as regulatory counsel on significant transactions, guiding health care providers through thorny compliance issues, obtaining advisory opinions, managing internal compliance reviews and investigations, representing health care providers in administrative appeals, and making voluntary disclosures to government entities. Travis is an active member of the AHLA and previously served on the editorial board of its Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law. Travis is a graduate of Davidson College, Georgia State University, and Harvard University

Susan O. Scheutzow is Of Counsel with Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP and serves as General Counsel for Southwest General Hospital. She works with clients on regulatory and compliance matters, medical staff and licensing issues, contract negotiations, litigation and general corporate law. Susan’s contributions to the field of health care law across her 40-year legal career have been recognized locally and nationally. She is a current fellow and former board member of the American Health Law Association, was honored with the Distinguished Women in Healthcare award from the Visiting Nurse Association, and is often called upon to speak on healthcare law topics and contribute to such publications as the Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law. She is an attorney equally respected among medical staffs and healthcare executives. Susan has pioneered the curriculum in Health Law at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and continues to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in health law at Baldwin-Wallace University.

Claire M. Turcotte is currently Director of Legal Services Special Counsel at Premier Health, where she is counsel for strategy and business development including health system partnerships and joint ventures as well as regulatory counsel for reimbursement and health information. Prior to joining Premier Health in 2020, Claire was a partner at Bricker & Eckler in Ohio where she focused her practice on health care transactions, hospital-physician contracting, physician compensation, fraud and abuse, provider-based status and other Medicare and regulatory matters.

Claire has been an AHLA member since 1993 and has served in several leadership roles including as a member of the OIG Advisory Opinions Task Force for the Fraud and Abuse Practice Group, Vice Chair of the Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group, member of the inaugural Women’s Leadership Counsel, and member of the Quality Councill. Claire has also contributed to AHLA as an author and speaker at in-person programs, webinars, and podcasts.