DC Bar - Part 4: Intro to Health Law 2010

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.

Barbara Ryland will speak at this event.