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Kansas City, MO 64108

Practices
Health Care
Government Relations
Corporate & General Business
Tax
Wealth Strategies
Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation


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Publications
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Charles F. Myers

Experience

Mr. Myers devotes his practice to issues involving health care law, corporate and general business law, government relations, and wealth strategies law.

Mr. Myers focuses his practice on the representation of hospitals (including for profit, governmental and not-for-profit), a major metropolitan ambulance service, preferred provider organizations, physician hospital organizations, medical professional corporations, physician groups and similar organizations.

Mr. Myers has extensive experience in representing governmental hospitals and has served on the Board of a major metropolitan area hospital.  His practice includes all aspects of a general health care practice, including Medicare fraud and abuse, the Stark Law, physician contracting, joint ventures, certificate of need, government regulatory compliance, hospital medical staff matters, and a full range of legal services faced by hospitals and related business entities.  He has formed and represented preferred provider organizations and physician hospital organizations and has advised them on the antitrust issues associated with such organizations.

Mr. Myers is a trained mediator having completed the American Health Lawyers Association ADR Mediator Training and Advanced Mediation training.  He is also a trained arbitrator, having completed the American Health Lawyers Arbitration Training-the Essentials of Arbitrating a Health Care dispute and has served on several arbitration panels. 

Mr. Myers has served on the City Plan Commission of Kansas City, Missouri since 1991 and has been Chair of the Commission since 1998.  This role has assisted Mr. Myers in developing his arbitration and mediation skills.

He is a past chair of the Lathrop & Gage Health Care Department.


Education
  • University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, J.D., number one in class, 1968
  • Northeast Missouri State University, B.S., 1964
Admissions
  • Missouri, 1968
Honors
  • Selected by peers for the health care section of The Best Lawyers in America®  for the past 18 years
  • Selected for Missouri/Kansas Super Lawyers, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008
  • Named to Best of United States, Lawyer Section, 2006
  • Selected for Best Attorneys Network Directory, 2005
  • Martindale-Hubbell® "AV" Rating
Professional Affiliations
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • American Bar Association, Health Law Section
  • Missouri Society of Health Care Attorneys, former board member, 1986-92; president, 1992
  • Kansas Hospital Attorneys
  • The Missouri Bar, Health and Hospital Law Committee, chair, 1990-93
  • Greater Kansas City Society of Hospital Attorneys, president, 1992
  • The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, chair, 1989-92, Health and Hospital Committee
  • Truman Medical Center, former member, board of directors and executive committee, and chair, Joint Professional Conference Commission
  • Kansas City, Missouri City Planning Commission, chair since 1998 and member since 1991
  • Kansas City, Missouri Economic Development Council, member
  • Kansas City, Missouri Downtown Economic Stimulus Authority, member of board
  • Northland Regional Area Chamber of Commerce, past chairman and member of the board
  • Clay County Economic Development Council, former board member and past chair
  • Planned Industrial Expansion Authority of Kansas City, Missouri, past member
  • West Central Missouri Area Health Education Center (AHEC), member of advisory board
  • Kansas City, Missouri Parking Authority, member
  • North Kansas City Rotary Club, past board member, past president
Publications
  • Participated in drafting and passing the Missouri Health Care Durable Power of Attorney Law as chair of The Missouri Bar Health and Hospital Law Committee
  • Co-chaired The Missouri Bar Health Care Durable Power of Attorney and Health Care Directive committees that drafted forms used by The Missouri Bar for citizens of Missouri
  • Co-authored the HIPAA Privacy Standards Manual, Missouri Hospital Association, 2001
  • Co-authored the model medical staff bylaws for the Missouri Hospital Association
  • Peer Review Guidebook, American Health Lawyers, 1995, co-author
  • Corporate Law Aspects of Voluntary Liquidations and Dissolutions in The Missouri Bar Corporation Law and Practice, 1991, chapter author
  • Public Hospitals in the Missouri Hospital Law Handbook, published by the Missouri Society of Hospital Attorneys, 1985, co-author
  • Missouri Corporate Forms published by Aspen Publications, co-author
Press Releases
10/23/2008 52 Lathrop & Gage Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
09/22/2008 National Best Lawyers Roster Includes 50 Lathrop & Gage Attorneys
11/05/2007 45 Lathrop & Gage Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
09/06/2006 National Best Lawyers Roster Includes 36 Lathrop & Gage Attorneys
11/09/2005 30 Lathrop & Gage Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
10/12/2005 24 Lathrop & Gage Attorneys Named to Best Attorneys Network
10/26/2004 25 Lathrop & Gage Attorneys Selected as Best Lawyers 2005

Legal Alerts
09/15/2005 Healthcare Employers Targeted for Union Organizing by "Change to Win" Coalition
02/17/2004 Legal Alert: OSHA Issues Buried in New Medicare Law
05/23/2003 Legal Alert: OIG Signals Position on Subsidizing Malpractice Premiums

Newsletters
10/20/2006 Recent Honors for Lathrop & Gage Attorneys - Litigation Insert No. 5 - Fall 2006

Presentations
  • How to Get CEOs and Governing Boards to Care About Compliance ... and other tall tales, Missouri Hospital Association Leadership Forum, June 2006
  • Hospitals and the Uninsured:  Tending to Business While Demonstrating Community Benefit, Health Care Webinar, May 2006
  • How to Get CEO's and Governing Boards to Care About Compliance - and Other Tall Tales, HCCA Midwest Area Annual Conference, August 2005
  • Extreme Makeover Hospital Edition - A Surprise Visit from the Regulators, Lathrop & Gage L.C., 2005
  • The Changing Landscape of Corporate Compliance & Governance for Health Care Organizations, Lathrop & Gage L.C., 2004
  • Managing Hospital Physician Relationships, Lathrop & Gage L.C., 2004
  • National Smallpox Vaccination Program, Missouri Hospital Association, 2003
  • HIPAA Compliance, Missouri Hospital Association, 2001




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