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John A. Meyers is a partner and Co-Chair of the firm's Health Care Law Department. He has more than 20 years experience in both the domestic and international arena as a specialist in healthcare law. Mr. Meyers advises clients on diverse issues such as healthcare acquisitions and restructurings, managed care and integrated delivery systems, payor-provider transactions and relationships, purchase and management of physician groups, payment and reimbursement issues, federal and state regulatory compliance programs and agency or regulatory investigations. Mr. Meyers also has developed an innovative series of negotiating seminars whereby teams of participants negotiate health care contracts of many types in a competitive environment that teaches negotiating techniques as well as substantive legal and business issues.
Mr. Meyers is admitted to the State Bar of California. He received his LL.B. from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law in 1974. He is a native Californian. Born in Santa Monica, he attended the University of California at Berkeley earning an A.B. in 1969.
Before joining Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP, Mr. Meyers led the Los Angeles Healthcare Practice Group for the Century City Office of the Chicago-based law firm of Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Chief Operations Counsel, Chief Counsel - International Affairs, and Special Counsel to the CEO of Tenet Healthcare Corporation (formerly National Medical Enterprises, Inc.) and had previously served as General Counsel to Summit Health Ltd. (now merged with OrNda).
Mr. Meyers is currently on the Board of Directors for the California Dance Institute , where his areas of practice include handling non-profit and tax exempt issues. In addition, Mr. Meyers is a frequent speaker for healthcare and professional legal organizations in the areas of his expertise. He is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association; the American Bar Association; the National Health Lawyers Association and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Business Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association.
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