Lawrence A. Manson

Krieg DeVault LLP, Indianapolis, USA

Mr. Manson is a member of the firm's Health Care Practice Group and concentrates his practice on representation of hospitals, long term care facilities and other providers in regulatory, payment, general corporate and litigation matters. Mr. Manson received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from Columbia University.

In his litigation practice, Mr. Manson has represented health care providers and their associations in challenges to State and Federal reimbursement systems, including both the Illinois Hospital Association and the Illinois Health Care Association in challenges to the Illinois Medicaid system. He has represented providers in Medicare matters before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board and the Federal Courts. He argued and won a case concerning the First Amendment in the United States Supreme Court. In his corporate practice, Mr. Manson has represented merger partners, buyers, and sellers of hospitals and hospital systems, nursing homes, physician practices and health maintenance organizations. His regulatory practice includes: Fraud & Abuse, state licensure, JCAHO matters, and medical staff matters. He has represented providers in employment matters, antirust litigation, tax issues, not-for-profit issues, and in financing transactions.

Mr. Manson has served as General Counsel, Office of Federal Law and Regulation, of the American Hospital Association. Also on the national level, Mr. Manson has served as the Chairman of the now Health Law Section of the American Bar Association and has been that Section's representative to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. Within Illinois, Mr. Manson has been President of the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys and a member of the Board of Directors of the First Illinois chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He was editor of Illinois Healthcare Law, and is a quarterly contributor to The Administrator's Advocate of the Illinois Nursing Home Administrator's Association.

Published Works
Maintaining the Peer Review Privilege, Antitrust Developments in Evolving Health Care Markets, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association, 1996

The Health Lawyer, Editor, ABA Forum Committee on Health Law, 1984 - 1987

Honors and Awards
Named 1 of 12 "Outstanding Hospital Lawyers - 2004", Nightingale's Healthcare News, June/July 2004

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association, (Member, House of Delegates 1995 - 1998)

AAA/ABA/AMA, Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Managed Care, (Member, 1997 - 1998)

American Bar Association, (Chairman, Standing Committee on Forum Committees 1995 -1996)

American Bar Association Health Law Section (Immediate Past Chairman, 1995 - 1996)

Health Law Forum (Chairman, 1991 - 1995); Illinois Association of Hospital Attorneys (Director, 1982 - 1987); Illinois

Association of Hospital Attorneys, (President, 1983 - 1984)

Classes/Seminars Taught
"OIG FY 05 What's Going on with the Feds?", HFMA, First Illinois Chapter (Countryside, IL), January 13, 2005

"Applicants for Employment", IL Health Care Association (Springfield, IL), September 15, 2004

"Maintaining and Achieving Provider-Based Status for Outpatient Services", National HFMA (on-site program series), August 2004

"Advance Directives", IL Nursing Home Administrators' Association (Springfield), March 2004

"Asset Sales Transactions in Health Care", Beard Group's Fifth Annual Conference on Healthcare Transactions (Chicago), March 19, 2004

"Legal Topics and Compliance Developments", First IL HFMA (Chicago), January 25, 2004

Pro Bono Activities
Mt. Sinai Medical Center (Board of Directors)

Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital (Board of Directors)

First Illinois HFMA Chapter (Board of Directors, 1988 - 1991)