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1. 1. Foley & Lardner LLP - Our People - William L. (Bill) Abalona

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   Published on: 2/17/2008   Last Visited: 2/17/2008

   William L. (Bill) Abalona
   ...
   William L. (Bill) Abalona Partner
   
   William L. Abalona is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. A member of the firm's Health Care Industry Team and the Public Affairs Practice, his practice is devoted largely to complex transactions, regulatory and legislative matters.
   
   Mr. Abalona works with hospitals and integrated health systems on a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. He works extensively with hospital associations in policy, legislative and regulatory matters. His regulatory practice encompasses antitrust and anti-referral law counseling, licensing and state building permit issues for health facilities, and Knox-Keene Act filings on behalf of health plans. His transactional experience includes structuring and negotiating the private management of a city-owned hospital, handling a variety of sale/acquisition transactions and joint ventures involving clinics, advising on the conversion of a county hospital to private operation/management, and liquidating a captive off-shore insurance company. Mr. Abalona also has been lead counsel in the affiliation or merger of several nonprofit hospitals into large, integrated health care systems, and has created several types of physician-hospital organizations. He served as general counsel for a large, acute hospital for seven years. Most recently, he has helped to develop Foley's Public Affairs Practice Group in Sacramento. This practice group provides a full range of public affairs services to the firm's clients, including legislative and administrative agency lobbying; public and media relations, policy analysis and issue management; and grass roots organizing.
   
   Prior to entering the practice of law, Mr. Abalona was extensively involved in health legislation. He served for more than eight years as a consultant to the California Assembly, principally as the health and welfare consultant to the Assembly Ways and Means Committee. In addition to serving as the Assembly's main advisor in the formulation of the state's health and welfare budget, Mr. Abalona was heavily involved in the development of significant legislation in the health field, including the Waxman-Duffy Prepaid Health Plan Act, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan, the health planning legislation that created the certificate of need program, and a number of legislative initiatives to reform the medical program.
   
   After leaving the legislature in 1980, Mr. Abalona spent four years heading up the government relations program for the California Hospital Association prior to entering the private practice of law.
   
   Mr. Abalona is a graduate of McGeorge School of Law (J.D., 1978) and California State University, Sacramento (B.A., 1967; M.A., government, 1969). He was admitted to the California Bar in 1979.

2. 2. CTEC: Who We Are

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   Published on: 2/3/2007   Last Visited: 2/3/2007

   William L. Abalona, Foley & Lardner LLP, Sacramento

3. 3. Foley & Lardner LLP - Our People - William L. (Bill) Abalona

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   Published on: 12/13/2006   Last Visited: 12/13/2006

   William L. (Bill) Abalona
   ...
   William L. (Bill) Abalona Partner
   
   William L. Abalona is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. A member of the firm's Health Care Industry Team and the Public Affairs Practice, his practice is devoted largely to complex transactions, regulatory and legislative matters.
   
   Mr. Abalona works with hospitals and integrated health systems on a variety of transactional and regulatory matters. He works extensively with hospital associations in policy, legislative and regulatory matters. His regulatory practice encompasses antitrust and anti-referral law counseling, licensing and state building permit issues for health facilities, and Knox-Keene Act filings on behalf of health plans. His transactional experience includes structuring and negotiating the private management of a city-owned hospital, handling a variety of sale/acquisition transactions and joint ventures involving clinics, advising on the conversion of a county hospital to private operation/management, and liquidating a captive off-shore insurance company. Mr. Abalona also has been lead counsel in the affiliation or merger of several nonprofit hospitals into large, integrated health care systems, and has created several types of physician-hospital organizations. He served as general counsel for a large, acute hospital for seven years. Most recently, he has helped to develop Foley's Public Affairs Practice Group in Sacramento. This practice group provides a full range of public affairs services to the firm's clients, including legislative and administrative agency lobbying; public and media relations, policy analysis and issue management; and grass roots organizing.
   
   Prior to entering the practice of law, Mr. Abalona was extensively involved in health legislation. He served for more than eight years as a consultant to the California Assembly, principally as the health and welfare consultant to the Assembly Ways and Means Committee. In addition to serving as the Assembly's main advisor in the formulation of the state's health and welfare budget, Mr. Abalona was heavily involved in the development of significant legislation in the health field, including the Waxman-Duffy Prepaid Health Plan Act, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan, the health planning legislation that created the certificate of need program, and a number of legislative initiatives to reform the medical program.
   
   After leaving the legislature in 1980, Mr. Abalona spent four years heading up the government relations program for the California Hospital Association prior to entering the private practice of law.
   
   Mr. Abalona is a graduate of McGeorge School of Law (J.D., 1978) and California State University, Sacramento (B.A., 1967; M.A., government, 1969). He was admitted to the California Bar in 1979.