Thomas J. Babbo
Shareholder
With 30 years’ experience in the health care industry, Thomas Babbo leads the Health Care Practice at HMBR, where he provides advice and counsel to hospitals, physicians, and other health care professionals in transactions, corporate matters, investigations, and operations issues. Recognized by Chambers USA as having “a fine track record acting for healthcare professionals on matters related to alignment and integration,” and for “providing thoughtful, nuanced responses to complicated health law issues,” Mr. Babbo focuses his practice in the development of innovative care models, provider collaborations, population health joint ventures, and value-based payor arrangements – including over 300 clinical integration networks (CINs), accountable care organizations (ACOs), management services organizations (MSOs), and other value-based enterprises nationwide.
Before joining the health care practice at Hogan Marren, Ltd., Mr. Babbo was Assistant General Counsel for Advocate Health Care and served as the legal counsel and Corporate Secretary for Advocate’s physician network, Advocate Physician Partners. While at Advocate, Mr. Babbo provided legal services in clinical integration, physician network operations, antitrust, managed care contracting, information systems, clinical research, and hospital and physician practice operations. Prior to his tenure at Advocate, Mr. Babbo served first as Chief of Staff to the General Counsel and then as Assistant General Counsel for Rush University Medical Center – supporting clinical research, patient care operations, health information technology, and managed care.
Mr. Babbo is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association and has taught at Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Adjunct Professor), Rush University’s Health Systems Management Program (Assistant Professor), and Dominican University’s School of Business Administration (Adjunct Professor). Mr. Babbo joined Hogan Marren, Ltd. as a Partner in 2006 and became a Shareholder of the firm in 2009. The firm became Hogan Marren Babbo & Rose, Ltd. in 2014. Mr. Babbo was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1998 and the Texas Bar in 2008.
Education
- Loyola University (J.D.)
- Loyola University (B.A. in Philosophy & Classical Civilization, magna cum laude)
Admissions
- Illinois (1998)
- Texas (2009)
- American Health Lawyers Association (Member)
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Adjunct Professor)
- Rush University’s Health Systems Management Program (Assistant Professor)
- Dominican University’s School of Business Administration (Adjunct Professor)
Publications
- “The Legal Framework for Clinical Integration,” Texas Hospital Association Clinical Integration Task Force (2009).
- “Clinical Integration: Lessons Learned (the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly),” American Health Lawyers Association (2008).
- “Law of Medical Practice in Illinois,” 3rd Edition, Chapter 13, “Managed Care” (Thompson-West, 2007).
- “Clinical Integration: Practical Insights and Current Developments”, The Institute for Clinical Quality & Value (June 2007).
- “The FTC’s Advocate Health Decision And Its Impact On PHO’s, Clinical Integration, and Price Fixing,” The American Bar Association, Health Law Section (June 2007).
- “Clinical Integration: A Physician and Hospital Strategy for Better Quality, Enhanced Competition, and Collective Contracting,” Hospitals and Health Systems Law Institute, American Health Lawyers Association, (Feb. 2007).
- “Clinical Integration: Managed Care Contracting as a Catalyst for Quality Medicine,” Physician Organizations, vol. 9, issue 2, (June 2006) American Health Lawyers Association.
- “Hot Topics in Managed Care,” The American Association of Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems (June 2006).
- “Protect Yourself: Terms and Tools for Negotiating Clinical Research Contracts, “SoCRA Source Magazine, the Society of Clinical Research Associates (2006).
- “The FTC and Provider Networks: Collision at the Crossroads,” Chicago Bar Association, Antitrust Section (May 2003).
- “Chapter 5, End of Life Issues,” Legal Issues in Long Term Care, IICLE Publications (2001, 2005).
- “Begging the Question: Fetal Tissue Research, the Protection of Human Subjects, and the Banality of Evil,” DePaul Journal of Health Care Law (2000).
Events
- “Clinical Integration Networks and Accountable Care Organizations: Topics for Developing High Value CINs and ACOs,” American Healthcare Lawyers Association – Hospitals and Health Systems Law Institute (2018)
- “Bracing for the Growth in Bundled Payments: Bringing All of the Stakeholders to the Table to Better Manage Patient Care Across the Continuum,” The World Congress 2nd Annual Leadership Summit on Accountable Care Organizations(2011)
- “Accountable Care Organizations and Clinical Integration,” Texas Hospital Association Leadership Conference (2010).
- “Transformations of ACOs: Converting Existing Integrated Systems into Commercial and PPACA ACOs,” American Conference Institute – National Forum on Clinical Integration (2010)
- Interview, “Are clinically integrated PHOs a viable platform to align physicians and hospitals?,” Great Boards (Winter 2009)
- “Clinical Integration as a Physician-Hospital Alignment Strategy,” American Federation of Hospitals – Fall Policy Conference (Sept. 2007).
- “Do What You Gotta Do, Do What You Can: Institutional Responsibility in Clinical Research,” SoCRA Annual Convention (2005).
- Interview, “Balancing IT Risks and Rewards,” hfm Magazine, Healthcare Financial Management Association (2005).
- Testimony, “Physician Hospital Organizations,” Health Care Competition Law and Policy Hearings – Federal Trade Commission (2003)
