Mr. Ellis devotes his practice to issues involving health care law, corporate and general business law, mergers and acquisitions, government relations, and insurance law.
Mr. Ellis focuses his practice on the representation of health care providers for a wide variety of matters including hospital general corporate law, corporate restructuring of diverse health care systems, government regulatory compliance, mergers of health care entities, restructuring of hospital-physician relationships, hospital medical staff matters, and the full range of legal concerns faced by hospitals and related business entities. He has assisted managed care systems including health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations on governmental relations issues, compliance with governmental regulation and the development of physician contractual relationships. He has represented physician groups and physicians in business organizational structuring and physician-hospital relationships. He has participated extensively in national, state and local government activities dealing with health care planning, policy development, insurance regulation and public health and welfare issues.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Ellis served on the legal staff of the Kansas Insurance Department dealing with workers' compensation, agent licensing, consumer affairs, company admissions, and general insurance legal matters. Mr. Ellis is a trained mediator with the American Health Lawyers Association.
Publications
- Co-Author, Peer Review Guidebook, the American Academy of Hospital Attorneys of the American Hospital Association, January 1995
- Co-Author, Collaborative Negotiations in a Competitive Environment, National Trial Lawyer, May, 1992
Representative Presentations
- KHA Webinar, Expanded Medicaid and Medicare Managed Care, What every health care provider needs to consider
- Health Care Webinar, Hospitals and the Uninsured: Tending to Business While Demonstrating Community Benefit
- Health Care Compliance Officers Association, Practicing Safe SOX - Hospital Governance Under Sarbanes-Oxley
- Webinar, Hospital Governance in a Sarbanes Environment
- Kansas Hospital Association CEO Conference, Negotiating Medicare Advantage Managed Care Contracts
- Kansas Hospital Association, Medicare Advantage/CAH Finance Seminar
- HCCA Midwest Area Annual Conference, How to Get CEO's and Governing Boards to Care About Compliance - and Other Tall Tales
- Child Health Institute, Corporate Compliance Planning Advanced Educational Seminars, Kansas Employment and Labor Law—Workers' Compensation
- Radiology Business Managers Midwest Annual Meeting, Medicare-Medicaid Fraud and Abuse Regulations
- Kansas and Missouri HMO Association, HMO Physician Credentialing Liability
- Employee Benefits Professionals Association, The Impact of the Uninsured on Health Care Costs
- United Community Services of Johnson County, The Future of Health Care in America
- Kansas Hospital Association - Leadership Forum - Keeping Your Hospital Out of Hot Water, Kansas Hospital Association – Medical Staff Bylaw Update
- Heart of America Health Law Institute, Managing Hospital – Physician Competition
Related News
- 02/13/2007 Jeff Ellis to Co-Chair Governor's Health Information Exchange Commission