Health and Hospital Law: MCLE BasicsPlus

Dianne Bourque and Daria Niewenhous will speak on MCLE's seminar entitled, "Health and Hospital Law: MCLE BasicsPlus".

This seminar will focus on fundamentals of health care law in the post-health reform era.
 
Topics:
 
Orientation and how the financial systems operate
Important concepts and major trends and their application to different provider
settings and health law topics; Payment and reimbursement overview; Ethical
issues lawyers confront
Industry focused modules
Hospitals; Physicians and other practitioners; Post-acute care providers; Managed
care organizations
Issue focused modules
Accountable care organizations; Determination of need; Health care fraud
and abuse; Clinical research; Health information privacy: Massachusetts
confidentiality laws and Federal HIPAA privacy rule requirements; Overview of
Federal and state confidentiality laws regarding patient information; Federal
health care enforcement initiatives

 
Faculty:

Lawrence W. Vernaglia, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, Boston, Chair; Joshua L. Abrams, Esq.,
Partners HealthCare, Somerville; Dianne J. Bourque, Esq., Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and
Popeo, PC, Boston; Alan H. Einhorn, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, Boston; Brian K. French, Esq.,
Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston; Abraham R. George, Esq., U.S. Attorney's Office, Boston; Robert A.
Griffith, Esq., Gargiulo/Rudnick LLP, Boston; Eve T. Horwitz, Esq., Archstone Law Group, PC,
Waltham; Rachel E. Lerner, Esq., General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Hebrew SeniorLife,
Roslindale; William M. Mandell, Esq., Pierce & Mandell, PC, Boston; M. Daria Niewenhous, Esq.,
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, PC, Boston; David S. Szabo, Esq., Locke Lord LLP,
Boston; Sarah L. Trautz, Esq., Verrill Dana LLP, Boston; Benjamin Wilson, Esq., Ropes & Gray
LLP, Boston; Stephen D. Zubiago, Esq., Nixon Peabody LLP, Providence, RI