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(Converted from ThinkLab '08 session 700.)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, ET
The Town Hall audio-conference series is designed to keep laboratory professionals up to date on legislative issues that impact their laboratories. The repeal of competitive bidding, potential cuts in reimbursement for clinical laboratory services, modernizing the clinical laboratory fee schedule and responding to the cut in the reimbursement for physician services are front burner issues for Congress in 2008. Keeping abreast of these developments ensures that your facility can influence the votes of your members of Congress while also being ready to adapt in the event influential legislation is passed by Congress and signed into law. This session will provide an update on those key legislative issues as well as advise CLMA members on how they can have their voice heard on Capitol Hill.
This session is presented by CLMA's legislative expert, Jeffrey F. Boothe, and is designed to encourage you to engage members of Congress during the development of legislation, as well as keep you informed.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
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Discuss current update and new legislative and regulatory issues impacting the clinical laboratory industry at the federal level.
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Recommend information to help shape the HCPC legislative and regulatory agenda for 2008 and beyond.
Because of the landmark decision regarding the repeal of competitive bidding, CLMA is making this timely Town Hall audioLab lecture available at a special reduced rate!
Member: $99 Non-Member: $149
Jeffrey F. Boothe, Esq., Partner, Holland & Knight, LLP
Jeffrey F. Boothe is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Holland & Knight LLP. He specializes in health care. He has substantial experience in representing clients on matters involving legislative and regulatory relations, Medicare reimbursement, federal health care fraud and abuse, and medical device coverage and reimbursement.
Mr. Boothe earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1977 and is a 1987 graduate from George Mason University Law School. Prior to graduation from law school, he served as a professional staff member on the Senate Appropriations Committee and as a legislative assistant to Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR).
Mr. Boothe writes and lectures extensively on health care topics on subjects such as Medicare coverage and reimbursement for medical devices; federal fraud and abuse; Medicare reimbursement; and, the Administrative Simplification Act provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. He is outside counsel to the Clinical Laboratory Management Association Health Care Policy Committee. He is on the Board of Advisors for Laboratory Compliance Insider. He is a co-author of The CLMA Guide to Medicare Compliance for the Laboratory. Mr. Boothe is a member of the American Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association. He is also a member of the health law section of both associations.
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1.5 Credit Hours
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