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Lidia Niecko-Najjum

Senior Counsel & CHS Director | She/Her/Hers

Overview

Lidia Niecko-Najjumis a senior counsel in Crowell & Moring’s Health Care Group and is part of the firm’s Digital Health Practice. With over 15 years of clinical, policy, and legal experience, Lidia provides strategic advice on health care regulatory and policy matters, with particular focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital therapeutics, telehealth, interoperability, and privacy and security. Representative clients include health plans, health systems, academic medical centers, digital health companies, and long-term care facilities.

Lidia’s experience includes serving as a senior research and policy analyst at the Association of American Medical Colleges on the Policy, Strategy & Outreach team. Lidia also practiced as a nurse at Georgetown University Hospital in the general medicine with telemetry unit and the GI endoscopy suite, where she assisted with endoscopic procedures and administered conscious sedation.

Career & Education

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    • University of Virginia, BSN, with a double major in economics, 2003
    • University of Richmond School of Law, J.D., 2010
    • The George Washington University, Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Corporate Compliance, 2011
    • University of Virginia, BSN, with a double major in economics, 2003
    • University of Richmond School of Law, J.D., 2010
    • The George Washington University, Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Corporate Compliance, 2011
    • District of Columbia
    • Virginia
    • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
    • District of Columbia
    • Virginia
    • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Lidia's Insights

Client Alert | 7 min read | 01.31.24

CMS Issues Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule

On January 17, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (Final Rule), which establishes requirements applicable to certain impacted payers which are intended to improve the electronic exchange of health information and prior authorization processes. The application programming interface (API) requirements will take effect January 1, 2027, while the operational provisions will take effect January 1, 2026. CMS has issued a helpful slide deck summarizing the Final Rule....

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Lidia's Insights

Client Alert | 7 min read | 01.31.24

CMS Issues Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule

On January 17, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (Final Rule), which establishes requirements applicable to certain impacted payers which are intended to improve the electronic exchange of health information and prior authorization processes. The application programming interface (API) requirements will take effect January 1, 2027, while the operational provisions will take effect January 1, 2026. CMS has issued a helpful slide deck summarizing the Final Rule....