Lawyers / Professionals

 
Alison Vratil Mikula       
Counsel
77 West Wacker Drive
Suite 4100
Chicago, Illinois 60601-1818
T: 312.750.8911
F: 312.698.4573
amikula@mcguirewoods.com
 

Ms. Mikula concentrates her practice on corporate healthcare transactional and regulatory matters. Her experience includes drafting and negotiating operating agreements and related transaction documents, and advising clients with respect to fraud and abuse issues, self-referral, healthcare privacy, corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting prohibitions, tax-exempt status, and certificate of need and licensure issues.


Practices & Industries
Previous Experience
  • Associate, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Publications
  • "Health Care Law: A Practical Guide," Co-authored with Scott Becker, Sarah Abraham Chacko, Ronald Lundeen, and Gretchen Townshend, Matthew Bender Lexis, 2008
  • "Friendly Alliances Between Gastroenterologists and Hospitals," Co-authored with Scott Becker and Elissa Koch Moore, American Journal of Gastroenterology, November 2007
  • "Health Care Law: A Practical Guide," Co-authored with Scott Becker and Ronald Lundeen, Matthew Bender Lexis, 2007
  • "Current Developments in Private Offerings," Co-authored with Sarah Abraham, Health Care Law Monthly, October 2007
  • "Nine Essential Elements of a Partnership Agreement," Co-authored with Scott Becker, Outpatient Surgery Magazine, April 2006
  • "Developing an Ambulatory Surgery Center: Understanding the Key Legal Issues and the Essential Elements of an ASC Operating Agreement," Co-authored with Scott Becker and Ron Lundeen, Health Care Law Monthly, April 2006
  • "Private Equity Investment in Health Care Companies: Eleven Steps to an Effective Health Care Regulatory Diligence Review," Co-authored with Scott Becker and Alison Vratil Mikula, Health Care Law Monthly, January 2006
  • Managed Care, Professional Autonomy and Income: Effects on Physician Career Satisfaction, Stoddard, J., Hargraves, L., Reed, M., Vratil, A. J Gen Intern Med. 2001 Oct.; 16(10):675-84
  • Increased Consolidation Raises Concerns: Cleveland, Ohio, Washington, D.C.: Center for Studying Health System Change, 2000
  • Hospital Tactics - "Friendly and Not-So-Friendly Competition," Co-authored with Scott Becker, Health Care Law Monthly, September 2006

Professional Affiliations
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys
  • American Bar Association

Languages
  • French
 

EDUCATION

University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, J.D., 2004

University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan, M.H.S.A., 2004

Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, B.A., 1999

 
 

ADMITTED

Illinois 2004

Colorado 2009

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Kansas City, Missouri