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October was National Cybersecurity Month. As part of its ongoing focus on HIPAA Security Rule awareness and compliance, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) within the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), published its HIPAA Security Rule Incident Procedures newsletter (the “Newsletter”)...
Justin Danilewitz will speak during the October 25, 2022 Philadelphia Bar Association CLE Webinar - Health Care Law Primer. This is hosted by the Health Care Law Committee and is eligible for 1.0 SUB CLE Credits. Health law is a complex collection of a variety of legal matters and issues. Many of...
Allison Burdette, associate at Saul Ewing, will be presenting to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles on October 12, 2022. She will focus on the topics of insight into regulatory/insurance litigations around compliance matters (i.e., Anti-kickback, Physician Self-Referrals, HIPAA, False Claims...
On August 23, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a $300,640 settlement and a Corrective Action Plan ("CAP") with New England Dermatology P.C., d/b/a New England Dermatology and Laser Center ("NEDLC") to resolve allegations...
On July 15, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of eleven investigations as part of its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative (the "Initiative"). OCR created...
No ‘slam dunk fix’ in HIPAA privacy law to protect abortion patients The Biden administration wants to lean on the decades-old privacy law to protect abortion patients. What could it actually do? “Typically, the laws are trying to catch up with where the real world is, in terms of what’s going on...
On June 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights released two guidance documents addressing (1) disclosures under the HIPAA Privacy Rule relating to reproductive health care (“Disclosure Guidance”), and (2) the privacy and security of reproductive health...
As we have just passed the half-way point of 2022, many health systems are thinking about acquisitions they would like to complete before the end of the calendar year. In addition to the necessary due diligence, contracting considerations and licensure and regulatory issues, acquiring and selling...
Agencies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania regularly publish regulations and policy statements in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. The Departments of Human Services, Health and Environmental Protection are among the agencies that are the most prolific document publishers. Administrative law...
Matthew Smith represents clients facing complex commercial litigation and has experience handling cases from the earliest stages of litigation through to jury trials, non-jury trials, and arbitration. He also has experience navigating lawsuits at the appellate level in Pennsylvania. In his Higher...
Caroline Patterson brings more than 25 years of legal experience to her work representing practices and professionals in the health care industry in a variety of transactional, corporate, and regulatory matters. Her experience ranges from providing counsel in mergers, acquisitions, sales and private...
George Magnatta is chair of the firm's Public Finance Practice. His practice focuses on serving as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, borrower's counsel, and tax counsel for states, cities, economic development authorities, housing authorities, and non-profit entities in the implementation and...
Jeffrey Hampton is chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice. He concentrates his practice on restructuring matters, including Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, out-of-court workouts, loan restructurings, corporate reorganizations and general insolvency law. He also represents the...
Colleen Foley has more than two decades of experience handling a wide range of regulatory matters for public utilities and energy companies, including representing clients in nearly every major utility merger in New Jersey over that time span. Her work includes representations of water...
Ted Baines is a partner and past chair of Saul Ewing's Litigation Department. He focuses his litigation practice on commercial contract, insurance, shareholder disputes, including shareholder demand responses, real estate, construction, and the defense of mass torts involving deaths or catastrophic...
A seasoned real estate lawyer with over 40 years of experience, Fred Strober is a trusted counselor to many of the region's leaders, particularly in the non-profit sector. Fred has been lead counsel on numerous transformational projects, including the revitalization of the former Philadelphia...