Healthcare CO-OPs: Opportunity for Hospitals and Physicians and the Community to Organize, Compete and Reduce Health Care Costs - CHICAGO

About the Speaker:
Mark E. Rust is Managing Partner of the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, and Chair of the firm’s national Healthcare Department. Mr. Rust concentrates his practice in transactional, regulatory and medical-legal issues affecting healthcare entities and provider organizations. For nearly 30 years he has written about or practiced in healthcare law, writing in a wide variety of publications from the Journal of the American Bar Association to USA Today. He is listed as a notable healthcare lawyer in Chambers USA, Top Healthcare Lawyers of Illinois, Superlawyers and The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Rust regularly updates the antitrust section of The Law of Medical Practice in Illinois, Third Edition, and co-authored and updates the Mosby Elsevier textbook, Legal Medicine, published in conjunction with the American College of Legal Medicine. He is the author of "CO-OPs and Accountable Care" published in the American Medical Association's (AMA) new educational resource ACOs, CO-OPs and Other Options: A "How-To" Manual for Physicians Navigating a Post-Health Reform World. The chapter expands on the possibility of provider-sponsored CO-OPs under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Mr. Rust has appeared before the United States Congress and several state legislatures providing testimony on healthcare delivery and managed care.