19th Annual Health Law Symposium
The Center for Health Law Studies presents

MEDICARE
After the Medicare Modernization Act
Friday, March 30, 2007
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Symposium Summary

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 made some of the most significant revisions that Medicare program has experienced in its forty year history. Besides adding a significant and expensive new prescription drug benefit, the new law gave beneficiaries strong incentives to join managed care organizations, realigned state/federal responsibilities for financing pharmaceutical coverage for low income seniors, added means testing to part of the program, and, according to some, moved Medicare away from its foundations as an entitlement program. With the new Congress poised to review the accomplishments and shortcomings of these changes, this Symposium will gather a group of leading scholars, policy makers and participants in health care sector to analyze the current state of the Medicare program and offer some prescriptions for the future.

The Center for Health Law Studies

Saint Louis University's nationally recognized Center for Health Law Studies
represents the University's commitment to the heightened and sustained contributions to education, research, policy analysis, publications andservice. The Center utilizes the considerable expertise the School has developed over the past 20 plus years of teaching and research in the area of health law and policy. The proceedings of the Spring Health Law Symposium will be published in the Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law and Policy. The School of Law offers J.D. students the opportunity to
earn a Certificate in Health Law. In addition, the Center sponsors multiple dual degree programs in which students obtain both a J.D. and another graduate degree including the J.D./Masters in Health Administration, J.D./Masters of Public Health in Health Policy, J.D./Masters in Public Health and the J.D./Ph.D. in Health Care Ethics. The Center also offers an LL.M. in Health Law. Graduates of the J.D., dual degree and LL.M. programs are employed by national law firms, state and federal government agencies, policy institutes and health care systems.

Location
Saint Louis University School of Law
3700 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63108

Continuing Legal Education
Saint Louis University School of Law is an accredited sponsor of CLE in Missouri. This program qualifies for 8.2 Missouri Continuing Legal Education Credits. Registration for CLE credits requires a payment of $20 for administrative costs and should be included with your registration form.