Event: Third Annual Ungaretti & Harris Healthcare Conference

Reference materials for the seminar can be found under the related file field.

For detailed event information, including agenda and teleconference registration options, please see the "Program Brochure" related file at left.

Special Guests:

• James M. Houlihan
  Cook County Assessor
• Father Michael Place
  Senior Vice President of Social Mission & Ministerial Development, Resurrection Health Care
• Dennis G. Smith
  Senior Fellow in Health Care Reform, The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health Policy Studies; Former Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations

The Healthcare and Government Practice Groups at Ungaretti and Harris LLP are pleased to present our third annual conference on the evolving law concerning Illinois not for profit hospitals and challenges to their various tax exemptions. Hospitals continue to face mounting local, state, and federal pressure to justify their exemptions. State issues are particularly in focus in light of the recent appellate court Provena decision now being appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court.

The Department of Revenue and local taxing authorities statewide continue to analyze whether to take steps to deny or revoke hospitals’ property and sales tax exemptions. Nationally, 501(c)(3) exempt hospitals face reporting and transparency initiatives spearheaded by Senator Chuck Grassley and the IRS.

Further, if the proposed Illinois Constitutional Convention passes on the November 4th ballot, we will devote time to a discussion of the convention’s potential implications for hospitals’ exemptions. In our view, a constitutional convention holds tremendous potential for clarification in this area.

Our third annual conference will provide timely information from a diverse and regarded group of speakers, sharing their insights and viewpoints on these important federal, state, and local developments.

Please view the program brochure for more information.