AHLA Representing Hospitals and Health Systems (AHLA Members)

Dinetia Newman (Editor) is a partner in Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP's Health Care Practice Group. A past president of the AHLA, she has spent her career representing hospitals and health systems, physicians, and ancillary service providers on federal and state regulatory, operational, and transactional matters including Medicare and Medicaid payment, Anti-kickback Act, Stark Law, EMTALA, HIPAA privacy and security compliance, state law licensure and Certificate of Need issues. Dinetia is a past president of the Health Law Section of the Mississippi Bar, past-president of the Mississippi Chapter of HFMA, and past chair and co-chair of AHLA's Regulation, Accreditation and Payment Practice Group. She has been a frequent speaker and author both nationally and locally and has taught as an adjunct professor in health law at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Bob Homchick (Editor) is a partner in Davis Wright Tremaine's national health care practice. As a health care transactional and regulatory lawyer, Bob counsels clients in areas such as physician self-referral (i.e., the federal Stark Law and its state law counterparts), regulatory compliance and fraud and abuse. Bob assists hospitals, physician organizations, ancillary services providers, and others in acquisitions, the formation and operation of joint ventures and in the development and implementation of new care delivery models, including accountable care organizations, bundled payment arrangements and other clinically integrated networks. His extensive experience includes defending providers in government audits, investigations, administrative proceedings and assisting providers with voluntary disclosures to federal and state enforcement agencies. Bob is a former AHLA board member and currently chairs the AHLA's annual Fraud & Compliance Forum.

Emily Black Grey (Chapter 16, EMTALA Compliance) is a partner in the Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, LLP and is the Section Manager of the firm's health care team, one of the largest in Louisiana. She represents health care providers in a wide range of issues including routine operational matters, regulatory compliance, fraud and abuse, licensing, provider enrollment, contracting, joint ventures, and health care transactions including hospital/physician integration. Ms. Grey's clients range from Fortune 500 companies to individual health care professionals and include hospitals and health systems, surgery centers, pharmacies, physicians and their practices, health care management and consulting companies, and other health care providers. As stated by Chambers USA, Ms. Grey's clients praise "her 'positive attitude and orientation towards results and resolution.'" She is noted for her handling of transactional regulatory matters and offers noted experience in licensing. She advises her clients on health care matters such as Stark and anti-kickback laws, EMTALA, state licensing regulations, Conditions of Participation, and other similar requirements. She assists providers who are seeking a new license, revising an existing license or buying or selling a facility. Additionally, she represents providers under scrutiny from licensing and certification agencies including Medicare and Medicaid and before their state licensing boards. She also represents providers in collection suits and in disputes with managed care organizations.

Ms. Grey is the Chair of the Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association, following six years of serving as a Vice Chair of that Practice Group and as the Chair and Vice Chair of the Public Health Systems Affinity Group. She has also held leadership positions with the American Bar Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association's Health Law Section, the Louisiana Law Institute, and the Baton Rouge Bar Association. She is a frequent speaker and author on health care issues for AHLA and for the Louisiana Hospital Association. Ms. Grey graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor's degree in English in 1997, and received her law degree from Louisiana State University's Paul M. Hebert Law School in 2000 where she was a member of the Law Review. She is licensed to practice in Louisiana and Texas.

Michael Lampert (Coordinating Editor) is a partner in the health care group of Ropes & Gray LLP. Michael provides regulatory, transactional, and strategic advice to hospitals and health systems, universities, schools of medicine, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, other provider organizations, and investors. He advises in mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, affiliations, and financings in both the for-profit and nonprofit context, and has extensive familiarity with fraud and abuse laws, in both an advisory and enforcement context, and Medicare reimbursement rules. Michael is an active volunteer in the AHLA's Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals practice group. Michael received his J.D. from the University of Virginia and his A.B. from Bowdoin College.

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

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.

Authors:  Blake Adams, Jeannie A. Adams, Alec Alexander, Susan Banks, Brian Betner, Barbara Blackmond, Ryan P. Blaney, Michelle Calloway, Allison Cohen, Samuel C. Cohen, Jane Reister Conard, Matt Connors, Andrew Cookingham, Tom Coons, Michael Crowe, Matthew M. Curley, Sheryl Dacso, David Dahlquist, Maria G. Danaher, Kim Daniel, Robyn Diaz, William B. Eck, Jennifer Rudenick Ecklund, Barbara Eyman, Deborah Farringer, Paige A. Fillingame, James Flynn, Gregory Frost, Katherine I. Funk, Larry Gage, Mark Gallant, Paul A. Gomez, Kimberly Gordy, Kyle Gotchy, Adam H. Greene, Scott R. Grubman, Timothy C. Gutwald, Kelly T. Hagan, Joel M. Hamme, Jennifer A. Hansen, Jay Hardcastle, Robert Harrison, Daniel J. Hettich, Marta J. Hoffman, John Holdenried, Ann T. Hollenbeck, Holly Hosford, Lauren B. Jacques, Eva Johnson, Samantha Johnson, Julie Kass, Christopher P. Kenny, Nathan A. Kottkamp, Sandi Krul, Nathaniel M. Lacktman, Clay Landa, Meredith Larson, Adam Laughton, David Lawson, Richard Levenstein, Christopher M. Locke, Katherine R. Lofft, Kim Harvey Looney, Ted Lotchin, Lisa Luetkemeyer, Mary Malone, Wendy A. Maneval, Kenneth R. Marcus, David Marx, Jr., Stephan C. Masoncup, Juliet M. McBride, Colin McCarthy, Lori Milhalich-Levin, Paige Miller, Thomas E. Miller, Elizabeth Mills, Jacqueline Moen, Nicole A. Liffrig Molife, Jeffrey S. Moore, Sarah Mutinsky, Dinetia Newman, Robert R. Niccolini, James F. Owens, Kathleen Pankau, John M. Perry, Jr., Vernessa T. Pollard, Mark D. Polston, Kimberli Poppe-Smart, Jason B. Reddish, Brian D. Roark, William J. Roberts, Marilyn Robertson, Adam Romney, Emily E. Root, Kristen B. Rosati, Michael F. Schaff, Raymond S. Sczudlo, Allison W. Shuren, Karen Smith, Paul E. Smith, Daniel Sternthal, Lane N. Summers, Elizabeth N. Swayne, Marcie R. Swenson, Regan E. Tankersley, Linda Tiano, Claire Turcotte, Cori Casey Turner, Kyle Vasquez, William von Oehsen, Jenny J. Wang, Tracy E. Weir, Christine L. White, Barbara Straub Williams, Rick Wolf