Christopher J. Laney will be a speaker on, “Tiered
Networks and Value-Based Care: The Benefits of Being a
Provider With Every Payer - Would You Choose “You” for
an ACO?” at ABQAURP’s 36th Quality Care Conference
on April 6, 2013 in Tampa, Florida.
Theresamarie Mantese will be a speaker on, “Statistics,
Extrapolation, and Overpayment,” at the HCCA web
conference on May 9, 2013.
Theresamarie Mantese and
Christopher J. Laney successfully defended a
third-payer audit involving a durable medical equipment
company resulting in the reduction of the overpayment
demand from approximately $100,000 to a little over
$5000. Key to the success was the interpretation of
participation guidelines and the Michigan Nonprofit
Health Care Corporation Reform Act.
Rolf E. Lowe will be updating Chapter 5, “Licensees
Under the Occupational and Public Health Codes,” in
Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction,
published by Institute of Continuing Legal Education,
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Theresamarie Mantese and
Christopher J. Laney updated the course, “Legal
and Ethical Issues in Risk Management: Practice
Protection,” and related exam questions for the
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization
Review Physicians, Inc.
Theresamarie Mantese is the Co-Editor of the Trial Practice
Column of Michigan Bar Journal.
Theresamarie Mantese and
Christopher Laney have been selected to participate
on the Exam Writing Committee for the American Board of
Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians,
Inc.
Theresamarie Mantese updated the course, “Core
Body of Knowledge Course,” and related exam
questions for the American Board of Quality Assurance
and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc.
David Rogers,
Theresamarie Mantese and
Rolf Lowe
are authors of “Physician Agreements”, Chapter 22 in
Representing Physicians Handbook, Third Edition, published
by American Health Lawyers Association, (December 2012).
David Rogers
was a co-presenter at a seminar sponsored by The Institute of
Continuing Legal Education in October 2012 entitled "HIPAA For
Non-Health Care Lawyers."
David Rogers
was a panel member for a statewide teleconference entitled “POST:
Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Issues and
Initiatives in Michigan, Part II,” sponsored by the State
Bar of Michigan Health Care Law Section, in September 2012.
David Rogers
has been selected again in 2012 for listing in The Best Lawyers
in America, in health care law. The Best Lawyers listing is
based on an exhaustive peer-review survey of other lawyers
practicing in that specialty.
David Rogers,
Theresamarie Mantese and
Rolf Lowe
have been selected again for 2012 as dbusiness Top Lawyers in
health care law. This listing is published each year by
dbusiness magazine.
Rolf Lowe
has been recognized as a 2012 Rising Star Top Young Lawyer in
the Michigan Super Lawyers list. This is the fourth year in
which Rolf has been named a Michigan Rising Star. Only 2.5% of
the attorneys in Michigan are named in Rising Stars.
David Rogers
has been selected as a Michigan Super Lawyer again this year, in
health care law. The Michigan Super Lawyers list, by the
publishers of Law & Politics, is compiled through a process of
balloting, selection panel review and independent research. Only
5% of attorneys in Michigan are selected for Michigan Super
Lawyers. Law & Politics selects and publishes Super Lawyers
lists in many states throughout the United States. David has
been selected every year since Super Lawyers began publishing in
Michigan.
Sophomore Rimah Alwakya was the recipient of the 2012
Rogers Mantese & Associates, P.C.
Annual Law Scholarship at the
Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Wayne State University. This
scholarship, sponsored by Rogers Mantese & Associates, is
awarded by the Honors College each year to a student who
demonstrates academic accomplishments and whose goal is to
attend Wayne State University Law School and practice law in
Southeast Michigan.
In addition to this scholarship, the firm has sponsored the
Rogers Mantese & Associates,
P.C. Health Law Scholarship Award
for several years at Wayne State
University Law School, and plans to continue doing so.
Theresamarie Mantese, Gregory M. Nowakowski, and Allise
Wachs, Ph.D. are authors of “Statistical aspects of Medicare
audits,” an article in Compliance Today, published by Health
Care Compliance Association, (July 2012).
Rolf E. Lowe
is the author of “Licensees Under the Occupational and Public
Health Codes,” Chapter 5 in Collateral Consequences of a
Criminal Conviction, First Edition, published by Institute
of Continuing Legal Education, Ann Arbor, Michigan (June 2012).
Rogers Mantese & Associates
co-sponsored 17 5th grade students at Cranbrook's Brookside
Lower School, who were awarded first place in the Statewide Law
Day Competition for 2012. The State Bar of Michigan launched
this statewide contest for the first time to highlight the theme
“Michigan: No Courts, No Justice, No Freedom,” utilizing the
State Bar of Michigan's Michigan Legal Milestones. The group
chose to reenact the defamation trial of Theodore Roosevelt v.
George Newett. This 1913 case is a milestone case in Michigan in
which then-former President Theodore Roosevelt sued George A.
Newett, publisher of the Iron Ore, an Ishpeming newspaper, for
libel. The Cranbrook students won the top prize of $1,000, which
they donated to the Hamtramck Public Schools. See, “State Bar to
honor Cranbrook 5th graders,” Oakland County Legal News, May 7,
2012.
Rolf E. Lowe
participated in “No Fees Day,” in which he donated his time
advising Washtenaw residents on a variety of legal topics. The
program was a community outreach program sponsored by the
Washtenaw County Bar Association’s New Lawyers Section. See “Bit
of free advice . . . ,” Washtenaw County Legal News, May 3,
2012.
In 2012,
Theresamarie Mantese and Gregory M. Nowakowski represented a
physician-provider and successfully discharged an audit
overpayment demand by a third-party payer in the amount of a
quarter of a million dollars based on defenses under the
Nonprofit Health Care Corporation Reform Act.
In 2011-2012,
Rolf E. Lowe successfully represented three health care
licensees and obtained dismissals of the administrative
complaints filed against them under the Michigan Public Code
because of his meticulous trial preparation and zealous
representation of his clients during the proceedings.
David Rogers
was recognized by the Health Care Law Section of the State Bar
of Michigan in the inaugural group of ten Health Care Law
Section Fellows, for sustained outstanding contributions to the
Section.
David Rogers
gave a presentation at the State Bar of Michigan Health Care Law
Section Annual Meeting in September, 2011 entitled "ACOs: A Bold
Idea With Legal Challenges".
Theresamarie Mantese has been selected for "Bar Register of
Preeminent Women Lawyers 2011 Inaugural Edition". The
Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers is
exclusive to women lawyers who have achieved the highest
possible rating in both legal ability & ethical standards.
