Dentons announced today that Lori Mihalich-Levin has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Health Care practice. Mihalich-Levin was previously the director of hospital and GME payment policies with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), a leading nonprofit organization representing all accredited US and Canadian medical schools as well as nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and 90 academic and scientific societies.
In her new role, Mihalich-Levin will advise Dentons’ clients primarily on Medicare reimbursement issues, building on her experience as a national point-person on policy issues pertaining to Medicare reimbursement and graduate medical education (GME).
“Academic medical centers are heavily regulated and changes in government regulation affecting these institutions occur every year, impacting hundreds of hospitals, research institutions and other academic settings,” said US Managing Partner Mike McNamara. “Lori’s encyclopedic knowledge of the laws, regulations, subregulatory guidance and payment policies impacting Medicare reimbursement in general, and GME in particular, will make her a significant asset for our many health care clients.”
In her prior position as the director of hospital and GME payment policies for the AAMC, Mihalich-Levin led national advocacy efforts on behalf of teaching hospitals. She frequently served as a primary nongovernmental content resource for invested government entities, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Department of Health and Human Services, Capitol Hill, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the White House and the Congressional Budget Office. She was advisor to more than 300 AAMC-member teaching hospitals on all aspects of Medicare GME regulations, and wrote the definitive industry publication on Medicare rules for new teaching hospitals.
Prior to working at the AAMC, Mihalich-Levin was in private practice counseling health care providers. Upon graduation from law school, she was law clerk to Judge Neal E. Kravitz, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Mihalich-Levin earned her JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor of The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. She holds a BA from Princeton University where she graduated magna cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She holds a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques, with honors, from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence, France, as a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar.
Also joining Dentons with Mihalich-Levin is Allison M. Cohen. Cohen previously served as a senior policy and regulatory specialist at AAMC, advising members of the AAMC’s Council of Teaching Hospitals on a variety of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues. Prior to the AAMC, she was a public policy specialist for Susan G. Komen®. Cohen holds a JD from University of Maryland School of Law and a BA from Duke University.
Mihalich-Levin and Cohen bring to six the number of significant laterals to join Dentons’ health capabilities in the past few months. Earlier this summer, the Firm added health care transactional lawyers on the West Coast, including well-known practitioner Dan Higgins and a team of associates in San Francisco to focus on sophisticated transactional matters in the health care industry. In Los Angeles, Dentons added Sam Maizel, a highly regarded health care bankruptcy lawyer.
Source: www.dentons.com
