AMBER BRAKE - FOUNDER, CEO & GENERAL COUNSEL
Amber L. Brake, JD, MHA, FACHE, CHC
PHYSICIANS AND HOSPITALS DON’T GET WHAT THEY DESERVE….THEY GET WHAT IS NEGOTIATED!
Working With The Brake Group
When you partner with The Brake Group, our CEO has direct involvement in each phase of the client's plan and goals and she leads each client's engagement, tailoring services to best position each client for maximum achievements.
Our team is dedicated to ensuring a better career, more competitive compensation/benefits/equity, and helping your practice or hospital to achieve better operational and financial success.
We are a data-centric organization, and many of our clients come exclusively for our 360-Degree Due Diligence Assessment, which benchmarks key indicators to be able to present options and alternatives to both our physician and hospital clients. For more information, click here to make an appointment for a consultation today.
About Our Founder
Amber L. Brake, JD, MHA, FACHE, CHC is the Founder, CEO, and General Counsel of The Brake Group (formerly The Brake Group for Hospital Based Physicians, LLC) and has more than 25+ years of leadership experience in hospital management (CEO, COO, I-CFO) and health care law (General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Privacy Officer).
Welcome to Amber Brake's Portfolio
Background
Serving as both in-house counsel and external counsel, Amber has held many high-level roles. These include:
- Hospital CEO, COO, CFO, VP of Ancillary Services
- General Counsel
- Regional Counsel, Risk Management & Corporate Compliance/Privacy Officer
- Senior Corporate Counsel & Regulatory Affairs Leader
- Consulting Business CEO/CFO
- Practice Administrator
- Professor of Health Care Finance & Strategic Health Care Management
Amber graduated from the #1 ranked health law program with certification in health law (with honors) and a Master's in Health Care Administration. Amber started her career as a law student, working for a non-profit law firm that advocated for citizens with challenges in their healthcare coverage. She also worked as a House Supervisor during graduate school and learned hospital operations and management from the inner workings of a large hospital. Additionally, she interned for the US Attorney's office, working on healthcare fraud and abuse cases.
She moved in-house as Legal Counsel with a hospital and worked her way into senior management and regional legal, risk management, and operational leadership roles for several major health systems.
Amber became board-certified in health care management in 2002 and a Fellow (FACHE) in 2004. She has been published in several journals on such topics as ‘Managed Care Accountability for Emergency Care Access & Coverage' (Journal of Medicine and Law, Fall 1998) and ‘Challenges to Tax Exempt Status for Nonprofit Hospitals' (Journal of Healthcare Management, Sept. 2005).
She is admitted to both the Wisconsin and Arizona bars and works with clients nationwide in accordance with the ABA's rules on multi-jurisdictional practice. She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the Medical Group Management Association. She is an invited speaker at various physician group conferences, industry leadership panels, and healthcare seminars with a variety of white papers and industry guidance and has spoken at such conferences as the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Care Compliance Association. She was the Regent for the American College of Health Care Executive's (ACHE) Council of Regents (2019-2023), representing health care executives across the state of Arizona (2020-2023) in the premier health care leadership industry association with 48,000 members nationally.
What Her Clients Have To Say
Pleased with the results
"The Brake Group has negotiated on my behalf and I'm not only pleased with the results, I'm impressed. Working with them has made an impact on the future of my practice. Very Grateful."
Added value
"The Brake Group really added value to the contract negotiating process between my soon to be employer and myself. They negotiated more PTO, a defined number of office hours vs. rounding and other duties to offer an overall balance and quality of life. They negotiated down my non-compete and rep. . ."
Best interest of my future
"I was referred to The Brake Group by a colleague. After our initial interview, I knew that it was in the best interest of my future to work with them. I was able to not only get more than I thought I could independently but was educated throughout the process on contract details that I might have. . ."
Stellar services
"I didn't hire an attorney my first job out of residency and that was a big mistake. This time around every detail in finding the right job according to my parameters was carried out so professionally. It was night and day from the last time. Plus, the terms of the agreement were many times better. . ."
Truly a pleasure
"While maintaining my current practice and looking for the right opportunity, I encountered The Brake Group. It was truly a pleasure to work with them, I was able to negotiate a more than fair agreement, make sure the contract details were clear, and in a location that was greatly desirable. Their. . ."
Fantastic team
"My anesthesia group had been unhappy with our Professional Services Agreement with the two hospitals we cover for years. Turnover among Hospital Administrators was constant. Each one promising to “look into” whether we were being paid fairly. The typical response was, “Not now. We've got other. . ."