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.

Lymari Martinez Cromwell (Chapter 3, Section 3.5) is Counsel at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC. She advises clients in all aspects of employment and labor relations law, representing industries as diverse as health care, hospitality, and manufacturing. From medical leaves to background checks, Lymari helps employers keep in step with the constantly changing regulations that impact the workplace, and works to ensure correct interpretation and implementation of the laws. Lymari has assisted with cases ranging from a 3,000-employee wage and hour collective action to a successful federal jury trial in a Title VII discrimination case.

Lymari counsels employers on both labor relations and day-to-day employment law matters and also serves as defense counsel on employment litigation.

John W. Dawson IV (Chapter 3, Section 3.2) is a Member at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC. He focuses his practice on the areas of environmental and construction law and products liability. Prior to attending law school, John had a successful career as a civil and environmental engineer. John incorporates this knowledge base and past experience into his practice, providing him a unique insight into his clients' interests and goals.

Alexis J. Gilman (Chapter 4) is a Partner in the Antitrust Group at Crowell & Moring in Washington, DC. His practice focuses primarily on advising and representing clients on a broad range of civil antitrust matters, including antitrust compliance counseling, merger reviews, government investigations, and litigation, with a particular focus on health care merger investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, and state Attorneys General offices. From 2010-2017, Alexis worked in the Mergers IV Division of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), including the last three years as head of that Division, which investigates and litigates mergers involving hospitals and other health care providers.

Before the FTC, Alexis was an Associate in an international law firm for nearly eight years, where he worked on a variety of civil antitrust matters, including pharmaceutical mergers.

J. Andrew Goddard (Chapter 3, Section 3.2) is a Member at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC. He currently serves as chair of the firm’s Environmental Practice Group. For more than 30 years, Drew has focused his practice in the area of environmental law. He counsels clients on a broad range of litigation, regulatory issues and compliance related to various local and federal environmental laws. He works with companies in industries such as hospitality, energy, and health care, among others.

Drew was elected to the American College of Environmental Lawyers in 2008. Drew has been listed in Best Lawyers in America® since 1991 and in Chambers USA since 2010.

Jay Hardcastle (Chapter 6) is a Partner with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. He advises surgery centers, hospitals, hospices, home health agencies, long-term care providers, imaging centers, cancer centers, and other participants in the health care industry in connection with mergers and acquisitions, alternative payment arrangements, joint venture formation, regulatory issues, and general corporate matters. Jay also focuses on drafting contracts for providers and physicians, advising clients on Medicare and Medicaid issues, providing assistance in the defense of whistleblower claims and advising tax-exempt entities in the health care area.