Provide your health system clients with a form policy and procedure document addressing both formal and informal government requests (e.g., from law enforcement). Ensure your clients and their workforce members comply with requests from government entities, including...
Provide guidance on the process for handling complaints and grievances filed by individuals who are covered under commercial health insurance policies. Better understand your client's obligations in the context of complaints and grievances, the structure of...
Provide this HIPAA Special Enrollment Rights Notice to your employees who have become eligible to participate in your group health plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Comply with ERISA by notifying your employees of their special...
Assist nonprofit hospitals and health systems conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA), a systematic process used by nonprofit hospitals and other health organizations to identify and analyze the health needs of a specific population within a defined...
Review this LexisNexis Practical Guidance – Healthcare practice note from Winston & Strawn LLP which explains how healthcare mergers and acquisitions are frequently subject to antitrust scrutiny. Get up to speed on the relevant antitrust laws, the government...
Help healthcare providers and facilities, as well as health plans and insurers, understand and comply with the notice requirements of the federal No Surprises Act, enacted as Title I of Division BB of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), Pub. L. No...
Guide your healthcare provider clients through key legal and operational considerations to avoid exclusion from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and other government-funded healthcare reimbursement programs. Use this checklist to advise healthcare providers...
Understand how healthcare facilities may be found liable for the acts of their non-employed attending physicians under a theory of apparent or ostensible agency. Learn how courts have found that a physician, although technically an independent practitioner, has...
Review this practice note from Akerman LLP partners Elizabeth F. Hodge and Jordan T. Cohen to understand how healthcare organizations leverage the value of the individually identifiable health data in their possession for various purposes (e.g., to improve patient...
Expand your organization’s compliance policy library with this template from Lexis Practical Guidance – Healthcare, which provides direction to healthcare organizations and their workforce members regarding the procedure for reporting and providing...
Get up to speed on physician compensation methodologies and the legal parameters that govern physician compensation structures. Balance productivity with cost containment, as well as productivity with cooperation, in structuring compensation arrangements between...
Check out Lexis Practical Guidance – Healthcare’s 12th State Law Comparison Tool (SLCT) Topic: Ambulatory Surgery Center Licensing, which covers all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Consult this SLCT topic for information on state statutes and...
Understand the fundamentals of Washington's My Health My Data Act, Wash. Rev. Code Ann. §§ 19.373.005–19.373.900, which took full effect on March 31, 2024. Review how the state legislature defined ''consumer health data.'' Counsel...
Review statutes and regulations governing privacy and confidentiality of patient information in clinical trials involving drugs, medical devices, and other life sciences products. Counsel your healthcare organization clients on the Health Insurance Portability...
Incorporate this new policy and procedure template into your healthcare organization’s compliance program. Review with your healthcare organization clients their policies on workforce interaction with news media representatives. Ensure your clients’...