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Healthcare Providers and New Immigration Initiatives: Obligations to Patients and Employees, Compliance Strategies

A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, May 23, 2025

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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.

Description

Executive orders and enforcement directives from the new administration now allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and agents from other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security to enter what have previously been deemed "sensitive locations," including hospitals and clinics, to pursue individuals who lack clear legal immigration status.

Access to sensitive locations was restricted beginning in 2011 subject to limited exceptions. The restrictions granted stricter procedural requirements for ICE to access these locations. This has changed. Counsel and their healthcare provider clients should be prepared for the possibility of enforcement action against patients and employees while remaining compliant with obligations under other federal laws.

For example, while healthcare employers must inquire about a job candidate's work authorization to ensure I-9 compliance in case of an audit, they must still comply with federal anti-discrimination laws that prohibit asking for certain types of information (e.g., specific visa types) or specifying which of the approved documents must be provided for I-9 purposes. And while patient information may be demanded by immigration authorities of healthcare providers, they remain subject to HIPAA's privacy requirements related to disclosure of patients' protected health information.

Listen as our expert panel examines the new administration's immigration initiatives and how these are impacting the healthcare industry, including the challenges created for providers when meeting employee and patient obligations.

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Outline

  1. Introduction: history of "sensitive locations" restrictions for immigration enforcement activity
  2. Immigration enforcement in healthcare settings
    1. New administration's enforcement initiatives impacting sensitive locations
    2. ICE's limitations in healthcare settings
  3. Challenges for healthcare providers
    1. Employee impact
    2. Patient impact
    3. Provider interaction with law enforcement
    4. Interplay and compliance with federal law obligations
      1. HIPAA
      2. EMTALA
      3. Medicare
      4. Other
    5. State and local considerations
  4. Healthcare provider strategies and best practices
    1. Preparing for ICE site visits
    2. Responding to information requests
    3. Other
  5. 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

Bibet-Kalinyak, Isabelle
Isabelle Bibet-Kalinyak

Member
Pullman & Comley

Ms. Bibet-Kalinyak is a well-recognized healthcare attorney skilled in navigating complex transactions across the...  |  Read More

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