The Affordable Care Act in 2012: Understanding the Changes

Ms. Hogan is the Director of Corporate Compliance for Community Care Physicians, P.C., a physician-owned, physician-run multi-specialty medical group with more than 1,000 employees and over 180 doctors and other clinicians practicing out of 35 offices throughout the New York Capital District. In her current position, Ms. Hogan directs programs, policies and practices to ensure that business units are in compliance with financial policy and reporting regulations.

Prior to joining Community Care Physicians in January of 2012, Ms. Hogan was Acting Chief of Staff and Special Assistant to the Medicaid Inspector General at the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG) from June 2008 to January 2012. She served under two governors and two Medicaid Inspector Generals. Under the direction of the Medicaid Inspector General, Ms. Hogan was responsible for oversight and coordination of various agency projects at the Executive level, including evaluating program processes and procedures to promote efficiency and transparency in OMIG’s efforts to preserve the integrity of the NYS Medicaid program. As Acting Chief of Staff, she was also responsible for general oversight of all state-wide operations.

John R. Washlick is a member of the firm, co-chair of the Health Law Practice Group, and practices in the Philadelphia and Cherry Hill, N.J., offices. His practice includes advising hospitals, physicians, entrepreneurs, and health care organizations on a variety of corporate, tax, and health care regulatory matters and he directs the firm’s health care transactional and corporate compliance practices. Prior to joining Cozen O’Connor, he was a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, where he directed the firm’s commercial health care practice.

He regularly counsels clients, as both general counsel on routine matters for health care industry clients and outside counsel on specialized issues and projects for clients with in-house legal departments, concerning employment and medical staff relationships; clinical trials; professional service agreements; management and provider contracts; physician recruitment incentives; state and federal fraud and abuse and antireferral prohibitions; patient health care information privacy and security matters under state law and HIPAA; and income producing activities of tax-exempt hospitals. John has extensive experience in tax, corporate and business law, health care mergers and affiliations, and health care joint ventures, including planning and developing hospital/physician integration and incentive compensation arrangements.

John is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars, the American and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the Pennsylvania Society of Health Care Attorneys, and the Health and Hospital Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is a member of the board of directors of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). From 2003 to 2006, he served as chair of the Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group of the AHLA and is co-chair of the Health Law Committee of the Camden County Bar Association. He is a member of the board of directors of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Health and Hospital Law Section. He also serves on both the Healthcare Law Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Health Law and Non-profit Committees of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Michael R. Callahan has been a practicing health care attorney for 30 years, assisting hospital, health system and medical staff clients on a variety of health care legal issues including accountable care organizations, patient safety organizations, health care antitrust, HIPAA and regulatory compliance, accreditation matters, general corporate, medical staff credentialing and hospital/medical staff relations.

Mr. Callahan is recognized for his experience and knowledge of the health care industry. He is a frequent speaker all around the country on topics including medical staff matters, integrated delivery systems, physician recruitment and retention, Joint Commission and HFAP accreditation, Medicare fraud and abuse, and accountable care organizations. He has presented around the country before organizations such as the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the American Bar Association, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the National Association of Medical Staff Services, the National Association for Healthcare Quality and the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management. Mr. Callahan has been recognized by his peers for his legal acumen, and has been listed as an Illinois Leading Lawyer in Antitrust; as an Illinois Super Lawyer for Health Care (2007–2011); in The Best Lawyers in America (1991–2012); in Corporate Counsel; inMarquis Who’s Who in American Law; and in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2005–2012). In addition, he has an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. He is also the recipient of the 1995 Illinois Association Medical Staff Services Leadership Award.