FAIR Health Elects James W. Lytle to Board of Directors

May 20, 2021

The FAIR Health Board of Directors has elected James W. Lytle, a senior counsel at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, to the Board. A national, independent nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing transparency to healthcare costs and health insurance information, FAIR Health is governed by a Board comprising leaders from all parts of the healthcare sector.

Mr. Lytle operates out of the Albany and Boston offices of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and participates in the firm’s New York State government, regulatory and policy practice and as a member of Manatt Health, the firm’s healthcare law and consulting practice. He represents a broad array of clients, especially in the healthcare and higher education arenas, before the legislature and the executive branch and has represented clients in administrative hearings and throughout all levels of the state court system, including the state’s highest court.

Mr. Lytle is the former Chair of the Health Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and served as Assistant Counsel for Health and Human Services to Governor Mario M. Cuomo from 1983 to 1986. He is currently an adjunct professor of Health Law at New York University School of Law and has also been an adjunct professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany School of Public Health, New York Medical College School of Health Sciences and Practices and SUNY College of Optometry. He has been consistently recognized by Chambers USA and by The Best Lawyers in America, which named him the 2017 Lawyer of the Year in Albany for healthcare and governmental relations and Albany Lawyer of the Year for government relations again in 2019.

A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Mr. Lytle is currently a fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.

“We enthusiastically welcome Mr. Lytle to the FAIR Health Board,” said Sara Rosenbaum, Chair of FAIR Health’s Board of Directors. “Drawing on his distinguished legal career in the fields of healthcare and government relations, he will greatly enrich the Board’s deliberations.”

“FAIR Health is honored to have Mr. Lytle join this esteemed assembly of leaders from throughout the healthcare ecosystem,” commented Robin Gelburd, President of FAIR Health. “His record of service demonstrates deep knowledge of the complexities of the nation’s healthcare sector that makes him a valuable addition to our Board.”