Foley Partner Lena Robins is speaking at the D.C. Bar CLE Program Introduction to Health Law Series on February 19, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Robins will be speaking with Barbara H. Ryland, Crowell & Moring, LLP on “Compliance Issues and Privacy.” This session will provide an overview of key health care and fraud and abuse statutes with a specific focus on federal enforcement initiatives. Also, it will deal with confidentiality and privacy compliance issues. Topics to be covered include:
- HIPAA Administration Simplification and current status of HIPAA rules
- Electronic data transactions
- Security
- National identifiers
- Privacy and confidentiality of health information
- Anti-kickback statute
- Physician self-referral laws (Stark I and II)
- The federal False Claims Act
- Health care enforcement initiatives of the Office of Inspector General and the Department of Justice
- Medicaid fraud programs, health care enforcement initiatives and e-Health.
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