Richard H. Sanders

Shareholder

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Chicago

Chair, Health Law Practice Group

Richard H. Sanders is a shareholder at Vedder Price and has provided legal counsel to a broad range of health care providers including health care systems, hospitals, physicians, provider networks and managed care organizations regarding corporate, governance, regulatory and transactional issues including tax, reimbursement and antitrust implications of structural changes, affiliations and hospital-physician and managed care relationships.

Mr. Sanders is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law teaching a full credit course entitled "Health Law Organizations and Transactions” and has been a frequent writer and speaker on legal and policy issues involving managed care, provider network structures and physician-hospital relations.  He is an editor and chapter author of the American Health Lawyers Association publication, the Managed Care Contracting Handbook (1993), its second edition published in 2001 and the third edition to be published in 2008. Mr. Sanders is the co-author of The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: An Analysis of the Impact of the HIPAA Privacy Rule on Illinois Mental Health Care Providers  (7 DePaul J. Health Care L.1 (2003)). He also served on the inaugural Editorial Board of Illinois Child Welfare, a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to improving services for children and their families.

Mr. Sanders also is a trained mediator and is listed on the panel of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Service of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Mr. Sanders is a member of the Chicago and Illinois Bar Associations and is a past Chairman of the Health Care Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association.  He also maintains active membership in the American, Indiana and District of Columbia Bar Associations and their respective health law committees, as well as the American Health Lawyers Association and the Illinois Association of Health Care Attorneys.  He is also a Fellow of  the American Bar Foundation. Mr. Sanders has been recognized by his peers as an Illinois Super Lawyer (2007 edition).

Mr. Sanders currently holds the position of the firm’s Health Law Practice Area Leader and formerly served as a member of the firm’s Executive and Board of Directors, as well as a member and Chairman of the firm’s Compensation Committee.

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• CMS Issues Much-Anticipated Phase III Stark Law Rule & Proposed Medicare Phys. Fee Schedule for 2008
• Proposed Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule
• Physician Restrictive Covenants Upheld by the Illinois Supreme Court
• Vedder Price Victorious Before the Illinois Supreme Court

• Antitrust and Trade Regulation
• Health Care Finance
• Health Care Regulatory and Compliance Advice
• Health Law
• Hospital and Health Care System Representation
• Insurance Program Design and Risk Management
• Managed Care Organization Representation
• Physicians & Physician Group Representation
• Provider Joint Ventures & Acquisitions
• Trade & Professional Associations

• J.D., Northwestern University
• B.S., Loyola University

• Illinois, 1969
• Indiana, 1990
• U.S. District Court: Northern District of Illinois, 1970
• U.S. District Court: Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, 1990
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, 1990
• U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, 1990
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1989

• Past Chairman,Health Care Section Council, Illinois State Bar Association
• Member, Chicago Bar Association (Health Law Committee)
• Member, Illinois State Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association (Health Law Committee)
• Member, Indiana Bar Association (Health Law Committee)
• Member, District of Columbia Bar Association (Health Law Committee)
• Member, Illinois Association of Health Care Attorneys
• Member, American Health Lawyers Association and its Alternative Dispute Resolution Services
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation