Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions 

Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions
January 27-28, 2005
Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City
Arlington, VA
Hotel information

This program has already occurred. Please visit our archive to obtain papers and audio of the sessions presented. 

Print out or download the program brochure.  (Adobe Acrobat PDF file.)

Program Description
The annual Academic Medical Centers program is designed to address the legal issues unique to teaching hospitals and academic medical centers. This program attracts in-house and outside counsel for the nation’s leading teaching hospitals and provides an excellent environment for the sharing of best practices and the exploration of new issues. The sessions will tackle some of the most cutting edge and controversial issues in health law and provide concrete advice to attendees on how to handle them. Featured speakers will include Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services and Edward Salsberg, M.D., Director of the Center for Workforce Studies at AAMC. Sessions will address topics such as IRB accreditation, IRB compliance, compensation, HIPAA, antitrust, and charity care and pricing issues.

For more information about the Practice Group lunch that will be held at the program, click below:

• Teaching Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers - January 28, 2005

For the lunch, there is an additional fee of $38 for members of the TH/AMC Practice Group and $43 for AHLA Members not enrolled in TH/AMC PG and Non-Members. Space is limited and pre-registration is required.

CLE Information
AHLA is an approved sponsor of continuing legal education credits in most states. This program will be worth approximately 11.25 credits (including 1.0 ethics credit) for 60-minute states and approximately 13.5 credits (including 1.2 ethics credit) for 50-minute states. Participants will be given CLE Request forms at the program. Forms must be completed and returned to Health Lawyers staff to receive credit.

This seminar will be worth approximately 13.0 CPE credits. AHLA is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. NASBA's web site is located at www.nasba.org.

Hotel Information
Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City
1250 South Hayes Street
Arlington, VA
Phone: 703/415-5000
Fax: 703-415-5061
Hotel Website

Room Rates: $205 single or double occupancy
Hotel cut-off date: January 7, 2005
(when making reservations, please indicate that you are with the American Health Lawyers Association room block; room block may sell out prior to hotel cut off date)

Travel Information
Make your reservation with ASSOCIATION TRAVEL CONCEPTS (ATC) from one of the following options:
E-mail: reservations@atcmeetings.com
Web: www.atcmeetings.com/ahla
Fax: (858) 362-3153
Toll Free: (800) 458-9383
These cost saving options may be booked online at the AHLA Travel Center web site. Just follow the Member Travel links. If you choose to call ATC, we provide personalized service, advance seat assignments, special meal requests, frequent flier program updates, electronic ticketing, email access for convenient booking of your tickets and MORE...

ATC offers these cost saving options:
Airline Discounts

• 10% to 15% off the lowest available fare for tickets purchased more than 60 days prior to the meeting (United & Continental).
• 5% to 10% off the lowest available fare for tickets purchased less than 60 days prior to the meeting (United & Continental).
• ATC will also search for the lowest available fare on any airline.
  
  Online Booking
• Discount fares can be found using the AHLA Travel Center online booking engine
• Go to AHLA's travel center and follow the Member Travel links.
  
  Car Discounts
• Discounted meeting rates (Enterprise & Avis).
  
  Zone Fares
• Region-to-region flat rates.
  
  Consolidator and Net Fares
• Reduces the cost of high priced tickets without a Saturday night stay.
  
  The above discounts apply for travel January 24-31, 2005.
  ATC is available for reservations from 9:00 am until 7:30 pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
  Some restrictions may apply. Service fees apply.
  
  You may also call your own agency or the vendors directly and refer to the following I.D. numbers: