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Alyce C. Katayama / Partner
Professional Experience
Alyce Katayama practices in the areas of health law, tax-exempt organizations and immigration law. Her practice emphasizes the representation of hospitals and other health care providers. She has experience in a wide variety of health law subareas including reimbursement, fraud and abuse, joint ventures, contracting, governance, accreditation, corporate compliance, credentialing and medical staff matters, managed care, provider licensing and HIPAA. She has assisted health care entities in various sectors with internal investigations. In immigration, her practice is focused on professional and business immigration with special emphasis on health care professionals. Ms. Katayama’s recent experience includes:
  • Counseling hospitals and integrated delivery systems on all aspects of regulatory compliance, including Stark, fraud and abuse and physician recruitment. 

  • Assisting hospitals and physician entities in the formation of integrated delivery systems and other health care related joint ventures.

  • Representation of medical and other health professions schools in a variety of matters.

  • Counseling health care systems and physicians on J-1 waivers and temporary and permanent visa strategies.

Among her career accomplishments are the following:

  • Founding member and national chair from 1985-2003 of Quarles & Brady’s Health Law Group. Led development of group from embryonic stages to four office practices with national reputation in the health care industry. 

  • Formed the first hospital-owned, federally qualified HMO in Wisconsin.

  • Formed and led the initial public offering of a multi-health care system managed care company.
Education and Honors
  • University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., 1974)
    Order of the Coif, Maryland Law Review (Staff Member, 1972-1974).
  • Goucher College (B.A., cum laude, 1972)
    Degree: Economics. Phi Beta Kappa.
Bar Admissions
Wisconsin, 1975
California, 1975
Maryland, 1974

Professional Recognition
Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rated.

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (Health Care Law 1991-present/Immigration Law 1991-present).

Professional and Civic Activities
  • State Bar of Wisconsin Health Law Section: (Member, Council Person, 1980-1986, President Elect, 1983-1984; President, 1984-1985, and Past President, 1985-1986, Health Law Section; Member, International Practice Section and Co-chair, Immigration Committee 1988-1990).

  • American Bar Association (Member, Health Law Section).

  • American Health Lawyers Association.

  • American Immigration Lawyers Association; Wisconsin Chapter of American Immigration Lawyers Association (Secretary, 1985-1987; Chairman, 1988-1990).

  • Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys.
Ms. Katayama’s community service has included:
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Adverse Reactions to Food Substances (Member, 1985-1987).

  • Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra: Board of Directors; Governance Committee and Audit Committee (2004-present); Music Director Search Committee: MSO-MSOL Merger Task Force.

  • Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics (Editorial Board, 2003-2006; referee for scientific papers 2003-2009).

  • Association of Private Assisted Reproductive Technology Managing Board (founding Director, Board Member and legal advisor, 1999-2006).
Selected Presentations/Publications

Publications:

  • Co-author, “Health Law,” Annual Survey of Wisconsin Law, 2012 ed.

  • Author, “Sunshine Act Proposed Rule Arrives; Comment Period Open Until February 17, 2012 Part One,” Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitor, January 16, 2012.

  • Quoted, “Side-by-side alliances may add financial stability to practices,” amednews.com, January 9, 2012.

  • Co-author, “Health Law,” Annual Survey of Wisconsin Law, 1988-1992, 1994-2011 eds.

  • Co-author, “A Physician's Guide to Health Law - A Collection of FAQs,” Wisconsin Medical Society, January 2009.

  • Co-author, “Yet Another Round of Stark Law Changes Coming Your Way, Some as Early as October 1, 2008,” Wisconsin Medical Journal, Vol 107, Issue 6.

  • Co-author, “Per-click, under arrangement, mark-up, and other dirty words,” Wisconsin Medical Journal, 2007, Volume 106, No. 5.

  • “A Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies Comparing Major Malformation Rates in IVF and ICSI Infants With Naturally Conceived Children,” Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, December 2004, Volume 21, Number 12,
    p 437.

  • “U.S. Art Practitioners Soon to Begin Their Forced March into a Regulated Future,” Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Vol. 20, No. 7, July 2003.

  • “Human Reproductive Cloning and Related Techniques: An Overview of the Legal Environment and Practitioner Attitudes,” Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Vol. 18, No. 8, 2001.

  • “Immigration,” Arizona and Federal Employment Law Manual, Survival Guide #7, 4th Edition, 2000.

  • Co-author, “Increase in visas creates temporary solution to worker shortage,”
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 2, 1998.

  • Co-author, “We need more foreign workers,” The Business Journal, June 12, 1998.

  • “Finally, HCFA Proposes Regulations Interpreting Stark II,” Wisconsin Medical Journal, March 1998.

  • “A meaner and tougher approach to health care fraud,” The Business Journal, October 26, 1996.

  • Co-author, “Stark Realities: Coping with Federal and State Self-Referral Paranoia,” Journal of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, 1994.

  • “The Short- and Long-term Effects: Wisconsin Tries Capital Expenditure Review Again,” Wisconsin Lawyer, September 1994.

  • Author, “New Fraud and Abuse Safe Harbors,” Wisconsin Medical Journal, August 1994.

  • Author: “Health Law,” Annual Survey of Wisconsin Law, 1984-1987, 1993.

Presentations:

  • “Healthcare Accounting, Ethics & the Law,” Lubar School of Business’ MBA Seminar, April 2, 2012.

  • “The Perfect Storm: A Survival Guide,” presented at the Vendormate Second Annual Council Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, September 22, 2011.

  • “The Do’s and Don’ts of Advocacy for 501(c)(3) Organizations,” Community Advocates Public Policy Institute,
    October 28, 2010.

  • “Would Someone Please Tell Us When it is OK to Markup a Diagnostic Test,” presented at the Wisconsin
    State Medical Society and Quarles & Brady LLP program, Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 15, 2008 and
    Waukesha, Wisconsin, October 21, 2008.

  • “What You Need to Know About the Stark Law in Order to Talk About The Stark Law,” presented at the
    Wisconsin State Medical Society and Quarles & Brady LLP program, Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 15, 2008
    and Waukesha, Wisconsin, October 21, 2008.

  • “Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA),” presented to the Board of Directors of
    Riverside Medical Center, Green Lake, WI, September 16, 2008.

  • “The Economic Impact of Immigration,” presented to Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, January 31, 2007.

  • “Corporate Compliance,” presented to Midwest Palliative and Hospice Care on November 21, 2005.

  • “Are There Adverse Outcomes in ART Offspring?,” presented to Association of Private Assisted Reproductive Technology, New York, November 13, 2005.

  • “Governance of Not-For-Profit Organizations in 2004 and Beyond,” presented to PPW Board on November 16, 2004.

  • “What You Need to Know Now About the Stark Law and the Stark II Phase II Rule Physician Recruitment Provisions,” presented to the Hospital Sisters Health System on September 15, 2004.

  • “Legal and Ethical Concerns in Assisted Reproduction,” presented at Charles University Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Prague, Czech Republic, May 19, 2004.

  • “Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (“EMTALA”),” presented to St. Nicholas Hospital, May 4, 2004.

  • “Are You Authorized to Work Here?,” presented at the Quarles & Brady 17th Annual Labor and Employment Law Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin, April 21, 2004, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 27, 2004.

  • “Employer Verification of Authorization to Work and Nondiscrimination Obligations Under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986,” presented to the Quarles & Brady Labor Group, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 12, 2003.

  • “Does ART Increase the Risk of Major Malformations and Imprinting Defects: A Meta-Analysis of Worldwide Studies,” presented at the 5th World Conference of A PART, Tokyo, Japan, October 25, 2003 and at Charles University Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Prague, Czech Republic, May 19, 2004.

  • “The ABC’s of Nonimmigrant Visas and The Real Commitment: Permanent Residence How to do it in this Lifetime (Maybe),” presented to The Association for Legal Professionals (“NALS”), Bloomingdale, Illinois, July 26, 2003. 

  • “The Rights of the Psychiatric Patient and The Patient’s Right to File a Grievance,” presented to Medical Staff and Behavioral Health Team; Sacred Heart Hospital, July 2, 2003.

  • “Getting Started With a Foreign MD: The Temporary Visa Solution,” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 27, 2003.

  • “Getting Started: Temporary Visas for Foreign Scientists and Physicians and Keeping That Scientist or Physician Here:  The Waiver Process,” presented to the Medical College of Wisconsin in a program called “The Visa Process: A Pain Management Course,” July 16, 2002.

  • “Cloning-What’s In a Name,” presented at the Second World Congress of A PART, Vienna, Austria, June 30, 2002.

  • “Stark Law Update,” presented at a seminar sponsored by Quarles & Brady, Naples, Florida, November 6, 2001.

  • “Legal and Ethical Concerns in Assisted Reproduction,” presented to Obstetrics and Gynecology Society of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic, May 25, 2001.

  • “What Happens When Your Client’s Advance Directives Are Not Followed,” presented to the Milwaukee Estate Planning Council, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 19, 2001.

  • “What’s New for High Tech and Other Specialty Workers,” presented at a seminar sponsored by Quarles & Brady Streich Lange, Phoenix, Arizona, February 21, 2001.

  • “What Else Happened in the Rush to Adjourn,” presented at a seminar sponsored by Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 6, 2001; Madison, Wisconsin, February 8, 2001; Phoenix, Arizona, February 21, 2001.

  • “Expanding the Regional Workforce: The Role of Immigration,” presented to the Workforce Development Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 5, 2000.

  • “Legal & Ethical Considerations on Reproductive Cloning & Related Techniques,” presented at the Second World Congress of A PART, Budapest, Hungary, September 16, 2000.

  • “International Marriage 101 and the Troubled International Marriage - What Every Family Lawyer Needs to Know About the Violence Against Women Act,” presented to Family Law Group at Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 12, 2000.

  • “The Real Commitment: Permanent Residence, How to Do it in This Life Time (Maybe),” presented at a sponsored by Quarles & Brady, Phoenix, Arizona, May 4, 2000.

  • “The Temporary Solution: Getting a Foot in the Door,” presented at a seminar sponsored by Quarles & Brady, Phoenix, Arizona, May 4, 2000.

  • “Legal Issues in Infertility,” presented at the Inaugural Meeting of the Midwest Region Association for Reproductive Managers (“ARM”), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 10, 2000.

  • “The Headache and Heartache of Hiring a Foreign MD,” presented to the American Society of Medical Association Counsel, Chicago, Illinois, June 22, 1999.

  • “Legal and Ethical Issues Relating to Egg Donation,” presented at the Japanese Society of Mammalian Ova Research, Tokyo, Japan, May 28, 1999.

  • “Shared IVF Programs: Can the Ethical and Legal Concerns Be Addressed,” at the First World Congress of the Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinics and Laboratories, Venice, Italy, March 17, 1999.

  • “The American Competitiveness & Workforce Improvement Act: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” presented at a seminar sponsored by Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 10, 1999.

  • “Immigration Issues for the Florida Business,” presented at a seminar sponsored by Quarles & Brady, Naples, Florida, November 20, 1998.

  • “Corporate Compliance,” presented at the Quarles & Brady Sixth Annual Exempt Organizations Symposium, Pewaukee, Wisconsin, October 27, 1998.

  • “The More the Merrier? - The Ins and Outs of Multiple Representation,” presented at a seminar sponsored by Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 27, 1998.

  • “In Re Edna M.F.: The Untimely Death of the Right to Die in Wisconsin,” presented at the Quarles & Brady Trust & Will Group meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 7, 1998.

  • “Jurisdiction of the Institutional Review Board Over Non-Funded ART Research,” a poster presentation presented at the 10th World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization & Assisted Reproduction program, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, May 24-28, 1997.

  • “Informed Consent: The ART Patients Perception,” presented at the 10th World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization & Assisted Reproduction, Vancouver, B.C. Canada, May 24-28, 1997.

  • “Unfair Immigration Related Employment Practices in the Verification Process: New Developments,” presented at a seminar sponsored by Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 25, 1997; Madison, Wisconsin February 26, 1997; Naples, Florida June 10, 1997; West Palm Beach, Florida, June 11, 1997.

  • “Managed Care and the Law,” presented to the Wisconsin Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 14, 1997.

  • “New Federal Fraud and Abuse Legislation Includes Some Good News, Maybe,” Wisconsin Medical Journal, October 1996.

  • “Managed Care Contracting from the Physician’s View Point,” presented at the 1996 National CLE Conference: Health Law Conference sponsored by Law Education Institute, Inc., The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. and Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., March 29, 1996.

  • “Managed Care Contracting from the Physician’s View Point,” Health Law Conference sponsored by Law Education Institute, Inc. and The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1996.

  • Co-author: “Stark self-referral rules burdened with complexities,” Wisconsin Medical Journal, 1995.

  • “The History and Changing Structures of Managed Care,” Wisconsin Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 1995.

  • “Managed Care Contracts,” Kult & Company, Inc. workshop for medical office managers, 1995.

  • “Stark II,” Physician Health Network Shareholders program, 1995.

  • “Legal Risk Prevention in Assisted Reproductive Technology,” IXth World Congress on In Vitro Fertilization and Assisted Reproduction program, 1995.

  • “Health Law - The Year in Review,” Milwaukee Bar Association, Inc. seminar, 1995.

  • “Decision Making, Advance Directives and DNR,” Columbia Hospital Medical Staff Grand Rounds program, 1994.

  • “Managed Care Contracting,” State Medical Society and Quarles & Brady program, 1994.

  • “Clinical Trial and Informed Consent,” Wisconsin Medical Manufacturers Association program, 1994.

  • “The Civil Side of Fraud and Abuse,” Quarles & Brady program, 1993.

  • “Legal Issues Related to Frozen Embryos and Gestational Surrogacy,” Fuchu Hospital, Japan, Department of Ob-Gyn seminar, 1993.

  • “Other Special Records: Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records and Mental Health Patient Records,” Lorman Business Center, Inc. program, 1993.

  • “Some Considerations in Reviewing a Contract With a Managed Care Organization,” Quarles & Brady/Wisconsin State Medical Society program, 1993.

  • “Pitfalls in Physician Billing in Hospitals and Clinics and How to Avoid Them,” Quarles & Brady program, 1992.

  • “Foreign Nationals: Business Activity and Employment Under U.S. Immigration Law,” Milwaukee Bar Association program, 1992.

  • “RBRVS; Hospital-Physician Models,” University of Wisconsin Hospital Administration program, 1992.

  • “Immact 90: New Employment Related Visa Categories,” Quarles & Brady program, 1992.

  • “Stark Landscape,” Quarles & Brady program, 1991.

  • “Other Special Records: Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Mental Health Patient Records,” Lorman Business Center program, 1991.

  • “Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 and the National Practitioner Data Bank,” Healthcare/Financial Management Association, Wisconsin Chapter program, 1990.

  • “Fraud and Abuse - Stark Landscape: Health Care Relationships in the 1990s,” Quarles & Brady program, 1990.