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34th Annual Health Law Forum 2022: 12 General, 3 Dual
Recognized as one of the premier health law programs in the country, this annual forum addresses key issues impacting our practice area. Sessions will provide insight from health law providers, practitioners and regulators. This year’s forum made its return to in-person, featuring the topics you have been asking for and an esteemed list of panelists and health law experts from right here in Tennessee and beyond.
Courses Included
- Health Law Forum 2022: Strange Times Spawn Strange Ethics Issues
Living in strange times complicates life in general, but also seems to spawn unusual ethics dilemmas and potential violations! This panel will highlight developments from the last year as well as cases which will make you say, “they did what?” Come with your questions and join us for a stimulating and entertaining afternoon of ethics discussion.
Lucian Pera, Adams and Reese
Phil Pomerance, Best Practices Inpatient Care
Sheree Wright, Vanderbilt University
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:2.00General Credits:0.00Speakers/Producers
- Lucian Pera, Adams and Reese LLP, Memphis
Lucian T. Pera is a partner with the Memphis, Tennessee, office of Adams and Reese LLP. His practice includes civil trial work, including commercial litigation and media law, and he counsels and...
- Phil Pomerance, Best Practices Inpatient Care, Ltd., Long Grove
Phil Pomerance is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Best Practices Inpatient Care, Ltd., a large physician - owned medical practice which provides hospitalists to hospitals, long-term...
- Sheree Wright, Tennessee Bar Association, Nashville
Sheree C. Wright is Executive Director of the Tennessee Bar Association. Ms. Wright received both her bachelor's degree, magna cum laude , and her law degree from Vanderbilt University, where...
- Lucian Pera, Adams and Reese LLP, Memphis
- Health Law Forum 2022: Research and Clinical Trials
- Health Law Forum 2022: Care at Home: Managing Risk and Pursuing Innovation in Home Health
This presentation will explore the current regulatory landscape governing home health providers at both the state and federal level, and challenges for providers in navigating this landscape in the face of recent economic and public health developments. The presentation will also focus on compliance and risk management strategies as new patient care mediums, such as telemedicine, are increasingly utilized in the home health industry. The presentation will touch briefly on related payor issues, government reimbursement, and opportunities for policy change in the near term.
Gabe Roberts, Roberts Consulting
Jesse Neil, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Jesse Neil, Holland & Knight LLP, Nashville
Jesse Neil is a veteran healthcare attorney whose experience helps clients bridge two complex worlds - healthcare operations and public policy. Clients value his deep understanding of the challenges...
- John Roberts, Deputy Commissioner Department of TennCare, Nashville
- Jesse Neil, Holland & Knight LLP, Nashville
- Health Law Forum 2022: Health Care Transactions
This session will provide the intangibles of health care transactions for lawyers and industry leaders.
Chip Hutzler, Horne
Kim Looney, K&L Gates
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Chip Hutzler, HMS Valuation Partners, Nashville
As a Partner with HMS Valuation Partners, Chip Hutzler focuses primarily on a wide variety of compensation arrangements, including provider employment agreements, medical directorships, ER call...
- Kim Looney, K&L Gates, LLP, Nashville
Kim Harvey Looney is a partner at Waller Lansden. Ms. Looney provides counsel to hospitals, physician groups and outpatient services providers on day-to-day operational issues related to recruitment...
- Chip Hutzler, HMS Valuation Partners, Nashville
- Health Law Forum 2022: Fraud, E-records, IT in Health Care
The healthcare sector remains a top target for cybercriminals - both in terms of ransomware attacks and downstream fraud. This presentation delves into IT in healthcare from compliance, government enforcement, and cybercrime vantage points and provides practical suggestions to reducing risk.
Chris Sabis, Sherrard Roe
Rachel Rose, Attorney at Law
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers - Health Law Forum 2022: Post-Dobbs: The Overturning of Roe v. Wade -- What to Know, and What’s Next
This panel will provide a high-level overview of the Dobbs decision, the resulting state landscape of abortion restrictions, a spotlight on Tennessee’s abortion laws and an overview of the interplay between EMTALA and state abortion restrictions. Finally, the panel will provide guidance on practical issues for providers, including counseling on options, abortion restrictions that extend to “aiding or abetting,” subpoenas and practical medical staff issues.
Anna Grizzle, Bass Berry & Sims
Caroline Reignley, McDermott Will & Emery
Dave Gacioch, McDermott Will & Emery
Julia Morris, Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Anna Grizzle, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville
Anna Grizzle focuses her practice exclusively on helping healthcare clients address enforcement and compliance issues or respond to legal and regulatory violations. She is currently serving as lead...
- Julia Morris, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
Julia Caldwell Morris (BSN, MSN, JD) is Managing Counsel in the Office of Legal Affairs, Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Her career in healthcare began as a...
- Caroline Reignley, McDermott Will & Emery,
Caroline Reignley provides strategic legal, regulatory and compliance counsel to for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, health systems, other healthcare providers, life sciences and technology...
- Anna Grizzle, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville
- Health Law Forum 2022: Current/Future Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Machine-based Learning
Amy Leopard, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Rob Gontarek, Aideo Technologies
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:1.00General Credits:0.00Speakers/Producers
- Rob Gontarek, Aideo Technologies,
Rob leads Aidéo's business strategy and execution, leading a team of talented data scientists, developers, and product managers to deliver technology solutions to the healthcare industry. Rob...
- Amy Leopard, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Nashville
Amy S. Leopard is a partner in Bradley’s Nashville office and co-chairs the firm’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice. Her practice focuses on the intersection of health care and...
- Rob Gontarek, Aideo Technologies,
- Health Law Forum 2022: Health Care Fraud and Enforcement
Three experienced healthcare fraud litigators will provide updates on government enforcement and qui tam litigation. Panelists will also cover the most important healthcare fraud developments from the past year.
Brian Roark, Bass Berry & Sims
Kathryn Sasser, HCA Healthcare
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers - Health Law Forum 2022: Tennessee Legislative Update and State Case Review
This annual update will focus on hot topics impacting health care law from the 2021 special and 2022 regular sessions of the General Assembly and will also recap significant Tennessee state civil court cases and Attorney General Opinions affecting health care from the past year. Find out about the laws health lawyers need to know about such as where the state stands with COVID laws, significant CON updates, and why the abortion trigger law needs to be demystified.
Jerry Taylor, Thompson Burton
Mandy Young, Butler Snow
Yarnell Beatty, Tennessee Medical Association
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.50Speakers/Producers
- Andrew Beatty, Tennessee Medical Association, Nashville
A. Yarnell Beatty Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Tennessee Medical Association 2301 21st Avenue, South Nashville, Tennessee 37212-0909 615-385-2100 yarnellb@tma.medwire.org Yarnell...
- Jerry Taylor, Thompson Burton PLLC, Franklin
Jerry W. Taylor is a veteran healthcare attorney in the areas of regulatory compliance and administrative law with a focus on state agencies and departments. He has formerly served as General Counsel...
- Amanda Young, Butler Snow LLP, Nashville
Amanda Haynes Young practices in the areas of government relations, compliance and regulatory counseling, healthcare law and insurance. She received a B.S., cum laude, from Vanderbilt University in...
- Andrew Beatty, Tennessee Medical Association, Nashville
- Health Law Forum 2022: Reimbursement and Provider-based regs.
Providers make decisions all the time that affect their governmental reimbursement. Some decisions may be highlighted as part of a transaction, thus affecting a buyer that is encumbered by the decisions of the seller, or that may be reflected in the sales price. These same decisions may have day-to-day operational and/or reimbursement impact for hospital operators. The presenters will discuss some of the key Medicare reimbursement and payment principles that impact hospital operations.
Andy Ruskin, K&L Gates
Holley Lutz, Dentons
Ramy Fayed, Dentons
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Ramy Fayed, Dentons,
Ramy Fayed is a partner in the Health Care Practice Group in Dentons US LLP's Washington, D.C. office. He has been recognized by Super Lawyers, Nightingale's Healthcare News, and Best Lawyers as one...
- Holley Lutz, Dentons, Washington
Holley Lutz concentrates her practice in the areas of Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement counseling, administrative litigation and clinical research compliance. She represents academic...
- Andrew Ruskin, K&L Gates, Washington
Andrew Ruskin is a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the Health Care and FDA practice group. Andy’s practice concentrates on the myriad ways that Medicare and...
- Ramy Fayed, Dentons,
- Health Law Forum 2022: Healthcare Fraud Enforcement across Tennessee: A Year in Review
Assistant U.S. Attorneys from the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Tennessee will summarize the major developments in healthcare fraud cases brought in their districts. They will also discuss trends that they are seeing in fraud cases across Tennessee.
Ellen Bowden McIntyre, US Attorney's Office M.D. of Tenn.
Rob McConkey, US Attorney's Office E.D. of Tenn.
Stuart Canale, US Attorney's Office W.D. of Tenn.
Tony Hullender, Medicaid Fraud and Integrity Unit, State of Tenn.
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers
- Stuart Canale, United States Attorney's Office, Memphis
Stuart J. Canale has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Tennessee since 1989. He graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1987 and is licensed to...
- William Hullender, Tennessee Attorney General's Office, Chattanooga
Tony Hullender is a Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Medicaid Fraud Unit (CMFU) of the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General. He has been with the AG since 2016. CMFU is...
- Robert McConkey III, U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Knoxville
Rob McConkey is a member of the Tennessee Bar and has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee since 2010. As the District's Affirmative Civil Enforcement and Civil...
- Ellen Bowden McIntyre, US Attorney's Office Middle Dist of TN, Nashville
Ms. McIntyre has served as the Deputy Chief for Affirmative Civil Enforcement at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee in Nashville since March 2023. She supervises and...
- Stuart Canale, United States Attorney's Office, Memphis
- Health Law Forum 2022: Keynote Address
TBA welcomes the new Tennessee Department of Health commissioner who will discuss priorities of the administration.
Dr. Morgan McDonald, Interim Commissioner for Tennessee Department of Health
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00Speakers/Producers - Health Law Forum 2022: Regulatory Fraud and Abuse Update
This session will provide an update of the latest Fraud and Abuse developments, including federal case law and settlements under the FCA, and OIG and CMS activity.
Kristin Bohl, Bass Berry & Sims
Robert Wells, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz
Sandy Teplitzky, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz
Travis Lloyd, Bass Berry & Sims
Course InformationFormat:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.50Speakers/Producers
- Kristin Bohl, Bass, Berry & Sims, Washington
Kristin Bohl blends her experience as a healthcare attorney in private practice and government service with first-hand knowledge of care delivery as a registered nurse. Kristin advises hospitals,...
- Travis Lloyd, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville
Travis Lloyd focuses on complex healthcare regulatory matters. He represents a broad range of healthcare industry clients, including hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers,...
- Sanford Teplitzky, Baker Donelson, Baltimore
SANFORD V. TEPLITZKY provides legal guidance on fraud and abuse issues to clients in virtually every sector of the healthcare industry. This includes counseling and defense in investigations and/or...
- Robert Wells, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz,
Robert Wells is a shareholder in Baker Donelson's Baltimore office who represents clients in health care regulatory and corporate matters. He draws upon more than 20 years of experience representing...
- Kristin Bohl, Bass, Berry & Sims, Washington
This course is no longer available for purchase.
General Credits: 12
Total Credits: 15 Highlights
- Convenient CLE package
- Ethics credit available
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