Butzel Long attorney Robert H. Schwartz appointed to Michigan Health & Hospital Association Health Information Strategy Committee
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Robert H. Schwartz has been appointed to the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) Health Information Strategy Committee. Mr. Schwartz also was recently appointed to the MHA’s Committee on Hospital-Physician Alignment.
Based in Butzel Long’s Bloomfield Hills office, Mr. Schwartz is Chair of the firm’s Health Care Industry Group. Mr. Schwartz’s practice includes corporate and health care activities. He has extensive experience in business planning, mergers and acquisitions and in assisting health care and hospital clients in the health care regulatory areas including reimbursement, fraud and abuse, and hospital physician relations, among others.
Mr. Schwartz is a member of the Oakland County and American Bar Associations (Member, Section on Health Law) State Bar of Michigan (Member, International Law Section Health Law Section Co-Chair Technology Subcommittee of Substantive Law Committee 2002-2004) American Health Lawyers Association President, Jewish National Fund 1998 to 2002 Member Government Affairs Committee of Automation Alley 2003 – 2006 Member DMC Guild Board 2005 – 2009 University of Detroit Law School Dean’s Advisory Board 2005 -2006 and, Director Crime Stoppers of Michigan 2004 to present.
Mr. Schwartz has authored a number of articles for several publications and is a frequent lecturer on various topics relating to health care. Mr. Schwartz graduated from Wayne State University Law School (J.D., 1972) and Wayne State University (B.A., 1969). He is admitted to practice in Michigan and New York.
About Butzel Long
Established in 1854, Butzel Long is one of America's leading law firms. With 170 attorneys, it has offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Michigan, New York City, and Washington, D.C., as well as Alliance offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Mexico City and Monterrey. The firm is also a member of the Washington D.C. law firm, Butzel Long Tighe Patton. Butzel Long represents clients from diverse industries on regional, national, and multi-national levels and is a member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms. Visit the Butzel Long website at www.butzel.com.
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