Lowell Brown

Lowell is a partner in the law firm of Arent Fox, LLP, and has practiced health care law for 35 years. He concentrates on the provider segment of the health care industry and advises hospitals, medical staffs, health systems, long-term care facilities, medical groups, and other such organizations in business, regulatory, and medico-legal matters. His practice emphasizes operational issues, including the design and implementation of compliance programs, practitioner credentialing, peer review, disciplinary hearings, Medicare certification, licensing and accreditation issues, and related policies and procedures.

Lowell is also a nationally recognized and widely published authority on EMTALA — the federal law prohibiting improper emergency patient transfers by hospitals (“patient-dumping”). In addition, he has extensive experience defending clients against actions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to terminate Medicare provider agreements.
   Lowell’s practice also encompasses operational issues such as bioethics, medical records, and consent and confidentiality. His experience in the foregoing areas includes litigation in California and federal courts.

Lowell has served as legal counsel for the prevailing parties in the first California appellate court decision to construe California’s peer review statute, Business and Professions Code Section 809; in a key California decision regarding Evidence Code privileges in medical staff peer review cases; and in a precedent-setting California decision on the doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies in administrative hearings.

Lowell spends as much of his time as possible with his wife, Sonja, and his three adult children. He loves intercollegiate sports and closely follows the fortunes of his beloved University of Utah Utes. He’s always happy when reading one of the works of Charles Dickens or watching the Los Angeles Dodgers play.

Lowell has been an assistant adjunct professor at the University of Southern California. He is an active member of several health care organizations, including the California Association for Medical Staff Services and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Among other positions, Lowell has served as chair of the Accreditation, Licensure and Certification Interest Group of the American Bar Association’s Health Law Section; as president of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys; and in several capacities in the American Health Lawyers Association. He formerly served as chair of the executive committee of the Health Care Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, as well as on the Institutional Review Board and Bio-Medical Ethics Committee of a major Los Angeles County general acute care hospital.

Lowell is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Utah S.Q. Quinney College of Law, the Board of Directors of the Venice Family Clinic. For many years he served on the Executive Board of the Western Los Angeles County Council, Boy Scouts of America, and as a member of Bloomberg BNA’s Health Care Law Advisory Board.