Larry Gage - Lawyer in Washington, DC
Washington, DC 20004-1404
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Larry Gage is a senior counsel in the firms Washington, D.C. officewhose practice is focused primarily on public sector and nonprofit health lawand policy. In 1981, Larry founded the National Association of Public Hospitalsand Health Systems (NAPH)(an organization now known as Americas EssentialHospitals). He served as president of that organization for over 30 years,developing and achieving enactment of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursementreforms that are the economic lifeblood of hospitals serving a disproportionatenumber of elderly and low-income patients.
Along with his advocacy and health policy representation of NAPH,Larry's clients have included major teaching hospitals, medical schools,integrated health and hospital systems, and state and local governments acrossthe country. He has assisted clients with mergers, reorganizations, conversionto other corporate structures and negotiation of complex contracts, affiliationagreements and joint ventures. Larrys practice also has an internationalaspect?he is a cofounder and past Board Chair of American International HealthAlliance, which is funded by USAID, PEPFAR and other U.S. and internationalorganizations. He has provided advice and assistance to clients throughout theformer Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.. Larrywas also a member of the Governing Board of the University HealthSystemConsortium for ten years.
The governance and legal structure of academic medical centers has beena primary area of Mr. Gages focus for over 30 years. He has written andlectured extensively on this subject, including a Special Report onTransformational Governance for Public and Nonprofit Hospitals, published bythe American HospitalAssociations Center for Healthcare Governance in November, 2012. In 2016, Mr.Gage also wrote a chapter on Representation of Public Hospitals in the American HealthLawyers Associations Handbook on Representing Hospitals and Health Systems.
Larry served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Legislation inthe Department of Health and Human Services and as staff counsel andsubcommittee staff director for the U.S. Senate Labor and Human ResourcesCommittee (now the Senate HELP Committee).
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