Deborah Bachrach And Melinda Dutton Selected As Contributors To Inside The Minds By Top Publisher Of Legal And Business Books

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, September 12, 2005 - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, the national law and consulting firm, is pleased to announce that Deborah Bachrach and Melinda Dutton have been selected as co-authors in the new book, Inside the Minds: Winning Legal Strategies in Health Care: Leading Lawyers on Industry Regulations & Creating Legal Game Plans (ISBN: 158762964X).

Inside the Minds: Winning Legal Strategies in Health Care is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the laws which govern the healthcare industry, and the future of healthcare regulation on a global scale. Featuring group chairs and department heads, representing some of the nation's top firms; this book discusses the current shape and future state of healthcare regulation, from the founding doctrines to the pivotal cases of today.

"Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book. Each chapter examines where an industry, profession or topic is headed and analyzes the most important issues for the future. "

The selection of Ms. Bachrach, Co-chair of Manatt's Not-For-Profit Practice Group and former Co-chair of Manatt's Health Practice Group, and Ms. Dutton, Counsel and Director of Healthcare Policy, as contributors to Inside the Minds: Winning Legal Strategies in Health Care , recognizes both attorneys as leaders in their field. Ms. Bachrach and Ms. Dutton co-authored the chapter on "Strategic Approaches to Medicaid." This chapter discusses the relationship between Medicaid, the nation's largest health insurance program, and its diverse stakeholders. Given Medicaid's annual expenditures of $300 billion and coverage of more than 53 million Americans, it is an important, often critical, revenue stream for many healthcare companies.

The authors' insights into the nature of Medicaid - a complex and highly regulated program subject to intense political scrutiny - illustrate how it can make for a challenging business partner. This chapter describes how the "four P's" of an effective state Medicaid advocacy strategy (policy, politics, potential allies, and pressure points) can help an organization to understand the programs' many moving parts, and to influence their movements to help the organization grow its business and advance its mission.

Ms. Bachrach and Ms. Dutton provide strategic, regulatory and legislative counsel to a wide range of healthcare organizations, with particular focus on public benefit programs, including Medicaid and Medicare. Both authors play an instrumental role in the Firm's Health Policy and Strategy Group, a specialized area within the healthcare practice. Backed by the Firm's sophisticated healthcare and government relations practice, this group of professionals combines expertise in law, policy and politics with a core set of specialized services including data analysis, policy development and coalition-building to develop comprehensive solutions for clients.

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