Ebola and Hospital Legal and Regulatory Challenges: Are You Ready?
Navigating HIPAA Concerns, EMTALA Obligations, State and Federal Reporting Requirements, and Employment Issues
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide guidance to healthcare counsel and their clients for addressing HIPAA concerns and EMTALA obligations when treating an Ebola patient. The panel will also discuss state and federal mandatory reporting requirements, employment issues, and lessons learned from the first U.S. Ebola cases.
Outline
- Privacy concerns
- HIPAA
- State confidentiality laws
- EMTALA obligations
- Reporting requirements
- State
- Federal
- Employment issues
- Refusing to treat
- Licensure implications
- Union avoidance
- Lessons from the first cases
- Best practices
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Employment challenges that arise when a hospital has a patient with Ebola
- Legal obligations of hospitals under EMTALA
- HIPAA privacy concerns and state law confidentiality requirements
Faculty
Edward L. Barker
Senior Counsel
Husch Blackwell
Mr. Barker has served as special counsel to hospitals, psychiatric facilities, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate... | Read More
Mr. Barker has served as special counsel to hospitals, psychiatric facilities, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities and ambulatory surgery centers. He is a former Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of a large, multi-state hospital system, where he regularly advised on corporate organization, integrated delivery networks, physician acquisition and employment programs, hospital-physician joint ventures, alternative health care delivery systems, and medical staff bylaws and issues for more than 25 years.
CloseW. Stephen Cockerham
Partner
Husch Blackwell
Mr. Cockerham advises clients on all types of employment matters, including discipline and discharge issues; compliance... | Read More
Mr. Cockerham advises clients on all types of employment matters, including discipline and discharge issues; compliance with employment laws and regulations; and labor issues, including union avoidance, negotiations, contract interpretation, and grievances. He prepares employment, noncompetition, nondisclosure, non-solicitation and physician contracts, as well as employee handbooks, policies, codes of conduct, arbitration programs, compliance programs and protection of trade secret programs.
CloseJoseph V. (Joe) Geraci
Partner
Husch Blackwell
Mr. Geraci’s practice includes licensing, regulatory compliance, operations and complex transactional and... | Read More
Mr. Geraci’s practice includes licensing, regulatory compliance, operations and complex transactional and reimbursement issues. He creates models to integrate physicians within larger healthcare systems and performs internal compliance investigations of suspected overpayment situations. He also advises clients on operational issues including developing and implementing license and conditions of participation plans of correction. He assists providers with resolving payment and reimbursement disputes, compliance questions and related issues.
CloseKate M. Leveque
Senior Associate (Partner, effective Jan. 1, 2015)
Husch Blackwell
Ms. Leveque’s practice is focused on labor and employment matters, which includes advising employers regarding... | Read More
Ms. Leveque’s practice is focused on labor and employment matters, which includes advising employers regarding human resources issues including personnel policies, employment contracts, employee handbooks and severance agreements. She has successfully represented clients in matters before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state agencies.
CloseLisa M. Luetkemeyer, Esq.
Husch Blackwell
Ms. Leutkemeyer is experienced in numerous aspects of the healthcare industry, advising acute and post-acute providers... | Read More
Ms. Leutkemeyer is experienced in numerous aspects of the healthcare industry, advising acute and post-acute providers including long-term care facilities, home health, hospice and assisted-living facilities. Prior to practicing law, she worked in acute and post-acute settings, including long-term care and home health, as a licensed speech-language pathologist.
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