Fundamentals of Health Law 

November 12-14, 2003
Chicago, IL
Hotel information

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Program Description
The Fundamentals of Health Law program will be held November 12-14, 2003 at the Westin River North hotel in Chicago. This program is designed to be an excellent refresher for experienced health lawyers and a valuable training program for new associates and in-house counsel. Sessions will cover legal and regulatory issues such as HIPAA, antitrust, Stark, False Claims, Medicare and Medicaid, and tax. Speakers will also provide analysis of the legal challenges and issues faced by the various players in the healthcare industry, including physicians, hospitals and health systems, managed care organizations, and long term care facilities.

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

• Regulation, Accreditation and Payment

For each lunch, there is an additional fee of $37 and space is limited.

CLE Information
AHLA is an approved sponsor of continuing legal education credits in most states. This program will be worth approximately 16.4 credits for 60-minute states and approximately 19.7 credits for 50-minute states. There will not be any ethics credits offered for this program. 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 19.0 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. Telephone number is 615-880-4200. NASBA's web site is located at www.nasba.org.

Hotel Information:
Westin River North
320 N. Dearborn Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60610
Phone: (312) 744-1900
Fax: (312) 527-2650
Hotel Website

Room Rates: $195 single or double occupancy
Hotel cut-off date: October 22, 2003
(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
ASSOCIATION TRAVEL CONCEPTS (ATC) has been selected as Health Lawyers’ official travel agency. ATC has negotiated discounts with United, Continental, US Air and Alamo Rental Car to bring you special airfares and car rental rates that are lower than those available to the public. When calling ATC, you will save 10-15% off on United and Continental Airline tickets purchased more than 60 days prior to the meeting. For tickets purchased less than 60 days prior, the discounts will be 5% to 10% off of the lowest available fares. Some restrictions may apply and a service fee may apply. ATC will also search for the lowest available fare on any airline.

ATC provides personalized service, advance seat assignments, special meal requests on airline flights, frequent flier programs, electronic ticketing, E-mail access for convenient booking of your tickets and more...

ASSOCIATION TRAVEL CONCEPTS
1-800-458-9383
e-mail: reservations@atcmeetings.com
www.atcmeetings.com.
Fax: (858) 362-3153

ATC is available for reservations from 9:00 am until 7:30 pm Eastern, Monday through Friday.

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