Health Law Forum 2024: 12 General, 3 Dual

Courses Included

• Health Law Forum 2024 - 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.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.50

  Speakers/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,...
• Health Law Forum 2024 - Keynote Presentation: Demystifying AI – Essentials for Health Care Leaders
  
  

  This year's keynote presentation will cover AI essentials for health care leaders. The session will provide a layman’s overview of AI, strategic advantages of implementation in medicine and its expected trajectory over the next two – five years.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Dr. David Higginson, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix
    David Higginson has dedicated more than 25 years to children's health care and joined Phoenix Children's in 2011 as the Chief Information Officer (CIO). As CIO, he oversaw all aspects of information...
• Health Law Forum 2024 - Private Equity: It Ain’t Private Anymore
  
  

  This session will cover the current state of private equity investment in health care. Key enforcement actions and cases will be addressed as well as what really matters to the government. States are also beginning to scrutinize private equity investment in health care and several have enacted statutes require disclosure and/or approval of those transactions. Some tips for how to comply with these requirements will also be discussed.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • John Kelly, Barnes & Thornburg, Washington
    John Kelly is a former federal prosecutor and an experienced trial attorney who focuses on guiding and defending clients across all areas of business, with a primary focus in the healthcare and life...
  • 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...
• Health Law Forum 2024: Tennessee Legislative Update and Case Review
  
  

  This annual update focuses on new laws impacting health care lawyers from the 2024 session of the General Assembly and will also recap significant Tennessee state civil appellate court cases and Attorney General opinions affecting health care from the past year.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.50

  Speakers/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...
• Health Law Forum 2024 - Navigating Digital Health: Legal Considerations in Hospital at Home, Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring
  
  

  This presentation will explore multiple aspects of corporate models and organizational structures in digital health; Hospital at Home regulatory considerations; and risk issues and considerations in remote monitoring, telehealth, and hospital at home.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Elisa Harris, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Brentwood
    Elisa Harris is a partner with Barnes & Thornburg, located in the Nashville office. Drawing from over a decade of in-house experience with Nashville based healthcare systems, Elisa guides both...
  • 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...
  • Stephen Page, K&L Gates LLP, Nashville
    Stephen Page is a partner at the firm's Nashville office and is a member of the Health Care and FDA practice group. 
    
    Stephen has advised a myriad of clients across the health care industry...
• Health Law Forum 2024 - Code Red: Health Care Cybersecurity
  
  

  Join this panel of three veteran healthcare privacy and security attorneys as they delve into the lessons learned from the Change Healthcare incident. The panel will explore cyber threats, regulatory enforcement, contracting, and risk mitigation strategies for protecting health information in an increasingly connected digital world.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • 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...
  • Lynn Sessions, BakerHostetler, Houston
    Lynn Sessions leads the Healthcare Privacy and Compliance team in the Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group and serves as national co-lead of the Healthcare Industry team, demonstrating a...
  • Elizabeth Warren, Bass Berry & Sims - Nashville, Nashville
    Elizabeth Warren has helped dozens of national hospital companies and healthcare providers respond to the fluid regulatory landscape in which they operate. She advises clients on operational issues,...
• Health Law Forum 2024 - Ethical Uses of Ambient Devices & Technology in the Doctor-Patient Interaction
  
  

  This session will cover the scope of consent on oral recordings (e.g. HIPAA), what happens if a patient does not want to use the recording device, liability issues regarding accurate medical notes, how long are recordings maintained and if clinicians have devices like Siri and Alexa currently listening in the doctor-patient interaction.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:1.00General Credits:0.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • A.J. Bahou, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Nashville
    A.J. Bahou is Bradley's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practice Leader and an intellectual property attorney who focuses on the intersection of law and technology. A registered patent attorney, trial...
  • Ann Lundy, Butler Snow, LLP, Memphis
• Health Law Forum 2024: Healthcare Antitrust Enforcement in the Biden Administration and Beyond
  
  

  Speakers will discuss topics including the antitrust enforcement climate in healthcare during the Biden administration, HSR form guidelines and updates, updated antitrust agency merger guidelines, recent enforcement actions in the healthcare space, state merger filings, and expectations for healthcare enforcement after the 2024 election.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Lindsey Bohl, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Washington
    Lindsey Bohl is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Washington, D.C. office. She advises on matters involving all aspects of antitrust and competition law, including merger reviews, government...
  • Derek Kelley, K&L Gates, Washington
• Health Law Forum 2024: Health Care Transactions: Regulatory Considerations for Structuring Deals, Minimizing Reimbursement Delays, and Maintaining Provider/Supplier Enrollments
  
  

  This presentation focuses on certain health care regulatory issues implicated in health care provider transactions, and provides recommendations for structuring transactions to avoid interruptions to Medicare enrollments and minimize payment delays. While the presentation provides a brief overview of the health care transaction landscape, a majority of the content addresses specific regulatory issues in detail, including a case study on a particular type of hospital transaction.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Gabriel Scott, K&L Gates, Raleigh
    Gabriel Scott is a partner in theK&L Gate's Research Triangle Park office and focuses his practice exclusively on health care regulatory and transactional matters. Gabe has extensive experience in...
  • Thomas Douglas Wolford, Holland & Knight, Nashville
    Doug Wolford is a healthcare attorney in Holland & Knight's Nashville office. Mr. Wolford assists a wide range of healthcare clients with regulatory compliance, day-to-day operations, Stark Law...
• Health Law Forum 2024: Trends in Commercial Provider/Payor Disputes
  
  

  This panel will discuss operational aspects of payor disputes and ways to avoid these disputes; the increasing use of automation in claim adjudication and related implications; payor audits and recoupment demands; and other recent trends in payor disputes including out-of-network claims, DRG downgrades, E/M down-coding, and allegedly not-separately reimbursable line items.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Stephen Barham, Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C., Chattanooga
    Steve Barham is a member of the firm's Litigation Section, focusing his practice on complex business litigation, including disputes between billing companies and physician groups, consumer financial...
  • David King, Polsinelli, Nashville
    David King is a shareholder in the Health Care Litigation and Disputes practice in Nashville. Leveraging over 30 years of health care litigation experience, David's well-seasoned approach is pragmatic...
  • Jennifer Monroe, KOC, Knoxville
• Health Law Forum 2024: The Latest Health Care Enforcement across Tennessee: A View from U.S. Attorney’s Offices
  
  

  This panel will discuss recent health care enforcement actions across Tennessee in the last year, including both civil and criminal actions. The panelists will also discuss trends for 2025.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Alan McGonigal, U.S. Attorney's Office, E.D. of Tenn., Knoxville
  • 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...
  • Sarah Williams, U.S. Attorney's Office, W.D. of Tenn., Memphis
    Sarah Pazar Williams is an Assistant United States Attorney in the civil division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Tennessee. She focuses on the affirmative civil...
• Health Law Forum 2024: Hot Topics in Responding to Government Investigations and Litigating Enforcement Actions
  
  

  This session will cover current issues in healthcare fraud investigations and the litigation of enforcement actions.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:0.00General Credits:1.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Brian Roark, Bass Berry & Sims PLC, Nashville
    Brian Roark is head of the Healthcare Fraud Task Force at Bass, Berry & Sims and concentrates his practice on representing healthcare clients facing governmental investigations and related...
  • JD Thomas, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Nashville
    As a former federal prosecutor, J.D. Thomas knows how to respond to sensitive and non-routine criminal, civil, and regulatory matters, including government investigations and prosecutions, qui tam and...
• Health Law Forum 2024: Ethical Considerations of Using AI and Updates (yes, there were developments other than AI)
  
  

  It was an active year for ethics! Join the panel for an update on developments in this area as well as a deep dive into the ethics of using Generative AI in your practice. Learn more about recent guidance and how you can best serve your clients effectively while avoiding hallucinations about ethical violations.

  Course Information

  Format:Online VideoDual Credits:2.00General Credits:0.00

  Speakers/Producers

  

  • Justice Sarah Campbell, Tennessee Supreme Court, Nashville
    Justice Sarah Campbell was confirmed to the Tennessee Supreme Court in 2022. She previously served as an Associate Solicitor General in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and as an...
  • Brian Faughnan, Faughnan Law, PLLC, Memphis
    Brian S. Faughnan is a sole practitioner and owner of Faughnan Law, PLLC, located in Memphis, Tennessee. Prior to founding his own law firm, Brian practiced law for over twenty years in large and...
  • 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...
  • 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...