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Thanks to all speakers, attendees

and exhibitors for making the

Inaugural GASP Annual Meeting

a success!

March 13 - 14, 2010

Westin Buckhead, Atlanta

 

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Meeting attendees have access to the Speaker Handouts via the URL provided in the Meeting Program and emails.

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NON-GASP ACTIVITIES OF INTEREST

 

October: The New York State Society of Sleep Medicine will have a meeting in Albany, New York.http://nysssm.org/

 

March 17-18, 2011

Sleep Health & Safety 2011

Sponsored by the National Sleep Foundation

Co-Chairs: Larry Culpepper, MD and Charles Czeisler, PhD, MD

JW Marriott

Washington, DC

Contact: Jennifer Williams, jwilliams@sleepfoundation.org

Press release: http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/press-release/more-500-attendees-expected-sleep-health-safety-2011

Website: www.sleepfoundation.org/shs

 



PAST GASP ACTIVITIES

 

GASP Activity | "Regulatory and Reimbursement Update for Sleep Medicine"

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

6:30 p.m.

2 concurrent sessions:

ATLANTA SESSION

Speaker - Daniel B. Brown, JD

Crowne Plaza Hotel
Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia

4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road 
Atlanta, GA 30346

Hotel Website

SAVANNAH SESSION

Speaker - Jayme Matchinski, JD

Hyatt Regency Savannah
Two West Bay Street

Savannah, GA  31401

Hotel Website

 

 

$25 GASP Members | $50 non-members

Legislative and Association Update, networking, heavy hors d'oeuvres, exhibits

 

Application has been made to the AAST for continuing education credits and the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) for continuing education contact hours for respiratory therapists.

 

Objective - To provide attendees with an overview of recent changes to regulations and reimbursements affecting the delivery and payment for sleep medicine services.

  

Speaker Bios

Daniel Brown, JD

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Atlanta, GA

Dan Brown is a health care attorney in the Atlanta, Georgia, office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP.  He focuses his practice in the areas of health care, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, and finance. As a key member of the firm's Health & FDA Business and Corporate & Securities Groups, Dan has extensive experience advising clients on the legal and regulatory issues impacting hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, sleep laboratories, dialysis clinics and independent diagnostic testing facilities.  He has over 15 years experience dealing with state and federal privacy, reimbursement, self-referral, anti-kickback, and licensure laws as they relate to the structure and operation of healthcare businesses.  Dan represents a variety of providers of sleep medicine, ranging from regional providers to owner-operators of stand-alone and hospital based sleep centers.  He advises health care providers in their expansion, reorganization and provision of health care services, as well as compliance with fraud and abuse and HIPAA regulations.  Dan is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Sleep Foundation, a member of the faculty of the Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine and Technology, and has been recognized The Atlanta Business Chronicle in the "Dealmakers" special section, 2009. http://www.gtlaw.com/People/DanielBBrown

 

Jayme Matchinski JD

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Chicago, IL 

Jayme Matchinski concentrates her practice on health care and corporate law. She handles regulatory compliance, reimbursement, licensure and certification issues affecting health care providers, health care transactions, and the purchase, sale and formation of health care entities. She has also successfully represented health care providers in reimbursement claims against insurance carriers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Ms. Matchinski works with physicians, as well as not-for-profit and for-profit health care systems in the licensure, certification, legal structure and reimbursement structuring of post-acute venues of care, including sleep disorder centers, rehabilitation hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, long term acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes and assisted living facilities.  http://www.hinshawlaw.com/jmatchinski/

 

 

GASP Launch

March 20, 2009

Ravinia Club | Atlanta, Georgia

Bruce Blehart with the AASM - keynote speaker

 


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