Healthcare Providers and New Immigration Initiatives: Obligations to Patients and Employees, Compliance Strategies
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will examine the new administration's immigration initiatives, including the rescission of the "sensitive locations" policy, that will impact hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare settings. The panel will discuss challenges faced by healthcare providers to maintain obligations to employees and patients required under federal and state laws while under heightened scrutiny by immigration authorities. The panel will offer compliance strategies for healthcare providers and best practices for guiding clients through this legal minefield.
Outline
- Introduction: history of "sensitive locations" restrictions for immigration enforcement activity
- Immigration enforcement in healthcare settings
- New administration's enforcement initiatives impacting sensitive locations
- ICE's limitations in healthcare settings
- Challenges for healthcare providers
- Employee impact
- Patient impact
- Provider interaction with law enforcement
- Interplay and compliance with federal law obligations
- HIPAA
- EMTALA
- Medicare
- Other
- State and local considerations
- Healthcare provider strategies and best practices
- Preparing for ICE site visits
- Responding to information requests
- Other
- Practitioner takeaways
Benefits
The panel will review these and other important considerations:
- How may the rescission of the sensitive locations policy impact healthcare providers?
- In what ways may the new administration's immigration initiatives create challenges for healthcare providers when meeting other legal obligations to employees? To patients?
- What actions may be taken by healthcare providers to prepare for a possible increase in immigration enforcement in their facilities while remaining compliant with other federal and state laws?
Faculty
Isabelle Bibet-Kalinyak
Member
Pullman & Comley
Ms. Bibet-Kalinyak is a well-recognized healthcare attorney skilled in navigating complex transactions across the... | Read More
Ms. Bibet-Kalinyak is a well-recognized healthcare attorney skilled in navigating complex transactions across the healthcare industry. With deep experience advising physician groups, multistate healthcare organizations, and cutting-edge virtual care platforms, she is a trusted partner in driving transformative deals. Her practice spans private equity-backed acquisitions, hospital and ASC transactions, joint ventures, MSO structuring, and strategic partnerships, all while ensuring regulatory compliance in an ever-evolving landscape. Ms. Bibet-Kalinyak serves as a trusted legal advisor to health systems, telemedicine platforms, physician practices, ASCs, labs, LTC facilities, and individual physicians on a broad range of complex healthcare matters involving corporate, compliance, licensing, fraud & abuse, HIPAA, business alignment, life cycle management, and Medicare/payor matters. Her healthcare practice has over time organically expanded to trans-national business transactions and immigration. Ms. Bibet-Kalinyak brings vast knowledge and experience advising U.S. clients with operations in French-speaking countries as well as companies based in French-speaking countries seeking to expand in the U.S. market. Her employment-based immigration practice handles applications for H-1B, L-1, and TN visas, green cards, U.S. citizenship, and related immigration matters. Ms. Bibet-Kalinyak frequently speaks at national conferences addressing topics such as healthcare mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance.
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Annie Chang Lee
Partner, Co-Leader Health Care Industry Group
ArentFox Schiff
Ms. Lee is an experienced health care advisor and litigator. She regularly represents hospitals, medical staffs,... | Read More
Ms. Lee is an experienced health care advisor and litigator. She regularly represents hospitals, medical staffs, medical foundations, ambulatory surgery centers, and health plans in matters relating to peer review from start to finish - from the initial recommended action, to the peer review hearing, to the appeal to the governing body, and to the Writ of Mandate in court. Ms. Lee regularly counsels clients on NPDB and Business and Professions Code 805 Reports, physician credentialing, peer review hearing procedures, state licensing, Medicare certification, Joint Commission accreditation, and EMTALA. She also drafts and revises medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, and provider services agreements. Ms. Lee is a frequent speaker at various seminars, and in particular, she is an emerging authority on physician well-being committees and physician wellness issues.
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