Annual Meeting Information 

As the culmination of AHLA's educational year, the Annual Meeting provides a forum for networking and interaction with colleagues, friends, and family as well as an outstanding educational event.

We are pleased to announce Dr. Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Congressional Budget Office will give this year's Keynote Address. Dr. Orszag is perhaps the most qualified person in the country to show how persistent healthcare cost growth will challenge both our government and your clients in the years to come. Testimonies that Dr. Orszag recently provided to the Senate Budget Committee, in his words "the nation's central long term fiscal challenge," rising healthcare costs are posted on the CBO home page.

Dr. Orszag also authors a blog that healthcare legal and legislative experts check often to see how CBO is analyzing different issues. You will not want to miss his insightful analysis of the healthcare environment.

Following Dr. Orszag's address will be a special presentation, sponsored by FTI Healthcare, on the Candidates' Perspectives on Healthcare Reform. This session will feature representatives of the McCain campaign and the Democratic party who will discuss the potential effect of the issue of healthcare reform on the 2008 Presedential election, and the implications of such efforts on providers.

The program will also include the always popular Year in Review and more than 35 breakout sessions covering a broad range of health law topics including fraud and abuse, antitrust, tax, hospital issues, physician issues, business transactions, life sciences, and reimbursement. The faculty of leading private practitioners, in-house, academicians and government representatives will provide analysis and updates on topics such as:

• Phase III: The Stark Realities
• The Evolution of Legal Ethical Behavior in Cyberspace
• How Hospitals Are Employing Physicians without Buying Their Practices
• Healthcare and Private Equity: Trends, Tips and Tools
• Update on Long Term Care Issues: The Key Legislative, Regulatory and Business Trends
• "Quality", Concept or Practice: What It Means to Providers and the Government
• Representing Physician Owned Ambulatory Surgery Centers in Formation and Dealing Issues Affecting Ownership
• Off-Label Use of Drugs, Devices — Federal Limitations, Medicare Coverage and the Practice of Medicine

View the program brochure.

Special Offer to All Program Attendees!
While at the program, all attendees can sign up to receive free copy of the Post-Program CD. CDs include all the audio recordings and materials with an electronic index and link to each of the topics, practical tools, exhibits, checklists and forms in each presentation. Please stop by the Thomson West exhibit booth to get your coupon for the free CD. All CDs will be mailed out 4-6 weeks after the program.

This program will be worth approximately 15.5 credits (including 3.0 ethics credit) for 60-minute states and approximately 18.6 credits (including 3.6 ethics credit) for 50-minute states. Participants will be given CLE Request forms at the program. Forms must be completed and returned to AHLA staff to receive credit. The sessions, unless otherwise designated, are intermediate to advanced in level. There are no prerequisites required to register for this program.

This seminar will be worth approximately 18.0 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, Suite 700, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. NASBA's web site is located at www.nasba.org.

(fees increase $100 after June 5, 2008)
AHLA Member: $995
Group Member: $920
Non-Member: $1195
Printed Course Material: $75

When an AHLA member registers for a program, each additional AHLA member registering from his/her organization at the same time is eligible for a discounted registration fee. Government employees, solo practitioners, academicians and students: please call (202) 833-0766 for special discounted fees.

Members who have attended another Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 program ONLY can register at the Celebration Sale Rate of $920.

Cancellations must be received in writing by fax or mail no later than June 20, 2008. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after this date. Registration fees, less a $50 administrative fee for the In-House Counsel Program, will be refunded following the program. If you register for both the Annual Meeting and the In-House Counsel Program and are only able to attend one, you will not be charged a cancellation fee. Please note that registration fees are based on the AHLA Membership status of the individual who actually attends the program. For more information regarding administrative policies such as complaint and refund, please contact our offices at (202) 833-1100. If you wish to send a substitute, please call the Member Service Center at (202) 833-1100.