Areas of Practice
Health Care
Office
Chicago, Illinois
Bar Admissions
Illinois, 1974
U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 1974
U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1978
Education
Columbia Law School, New York, New York
J.D., 1974
Vanderbilt University
B.A., 1971
Honors: Cum Laude
Past Employment Positions
Various Chicago Law Firms and Independent Law Practice, Partner, 1980 - 2007
American Hospital Association, General Counsel Office of Federal Law & Regulation, 1978 - 1980
Chicago Law Firm, Associate, 1974 - 1978
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
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
Honors and Awards
Named 1 of 12 "Outstanding Hospital Lawyers - 2004", Nightingale's Healthcare News, June/July 2004
Professional Associations and Memberships
Illinios Bar Association
Member
American Bar Association
Member
American Bar Association, 1995 - 1998
Member, House of Delegates
AAA/ABA/AMA, Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Managed Care, 1997 - 1998
Member
American Bar Association, 1995 - 1996
Chairman, Standing Committee on Forum Committees
American Bar Association Health Law Section, 1995 - 1996
Immediate Past Chairman
Health Law Forum, 1991 - 1995
Chairman
Illinois Association of Hospital Attorneys, 1982 - 1987
Director
Illinois Association of Hospital Attorneys, 1983 - 1984
President
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 |