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Polsinelli Shughart PC
Chicago, IL
(312) 873-3601
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Fredric J. Entin offers clients extensive knowledge of health care corporate, regulatory and general counsel services to U.S. and international health care institutions, including academic medical centers. He is a nationally known health care attorney and former General Counsel of the American Hospital Association.During his 35-year career he has had extensive experience and success representing hospitals, academic medical centers, physicians and medical groups and health care trade associations on a variety of regulatory and industry issues, including Medicare and Medicaid compliance, exempt tax and governance, antitrust, behavioral health, medical staff and clinical information and technology. He has advocated on behalf of health care clients before various regulatory agencies and in the courts. Entin also counsels international health care providers on regulatory, liability and payment issues that emerge in treatment of patients from the United States.
Memberships and Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- American Society of Association Executives
- BNA’s Health Law Reporter, Advisory Board
- Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Healthcare Council, Member
- Illinois Association of Hospital Attorneys, Past President
- American Health Lawyers Association, Former Director
Distinctions
- Leading Lawyers Network, 2005 - present
- Outstanding Hospital Lawyer of 2007, Nightingale's Healthcare News
- Listed in Illinois Super Lawyers, 2008-present
- AV Rated Martindale Hubbell
- Senior Vice President and General Counsel, American Hospital Association
- Director of Medical-Legal Affairs, University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics
Education
- J.D., DePaul University, 1972
- B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1968
Admissions
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1972
- Federal Trial Bar