Mintz Levin Attorney Nili S. Yolin to Speak at American Health Lawyers Association Annual Program
1/3/2012
New York, NY – Nili S. Yolin, Of Counsel in the Health Law Practice of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., is speaking at the American Health Lawyers Association’s (AHLA) “Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions” annual program. The program is being held January 26-27 at the Ritz Carlton in Washington, D.C.
The AHLA program attracts in-house and outside counsel from the nation's leading teaching hospitals. It is being co-sponsored with the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
The title of Ms. Yolin’s presentation is “Healthcare Reform and the Federal Deficit: What Academic Medical Centers Need to Know about Medicare GME Reimbursement.”
In addition to corporate, transactional, and federal and state regulatory matters in the health care industry, Ms. Yolin regularly assists residency training programs across the country with ACGME accreditation-related issues and in connection with challenges to adverse decisions of the various Residency Review Committees of the ACGME. She has extensive experience in health care transactional matters such as hospital joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and affiliations. She also assists hospital and nursing home clients with medical staff matters, preparing and/or revising organizational documents, and negotiating agreements with third-party vendors.
Ms.Yolin’s regulatory practice involves assisting clients in structuring proposed transactions and business relationships to comply with federal and state anti-kickback and self-referral statutes, HIPAA and health information privacy, and state licensing requirements. She also counsels payor clients on both governmental and internal audits, developing and implementing state-approved management and provider contracts, and claims processing disputes with providers. Ms. Yolin’s health care experience also includes representing physicians and other licensees in investigations before the Office of Professional Medical Conduct and other disciplinary bodies.
Attorneys in Mintz Levin's Health Law Practice, many of whom have held senior government positions or served as in-house counsel, represent for-profit and non-profit, domestic and international companies in connection with a wide variety of business and legal transactions, challenges and issues that they confront both on a daily basis and in bet-the-company matters. Clients span the full spectrum of the industry, including hospital systems, managed care organizations, laboratories, long-term care providers, durable medical equipment suppliers, behavioral health companies, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, retail pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers.
