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Category Archives: Vanessa Reynolds
A Roadmap to Licensure Investigations
By: Vanessa Reynolds For healthcare practitioners, few events are as anxiety-provoking as a professional licensure complaint and investigation. Even if a complaint is ultimately determined to be unfounded, responding is time-consuming and can be disruptive to a practice. The Florida … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance, Regulatory, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged ALJ, Broad and Cassel, Broad and Cassel Health Law Practice Group, complaint, Florida, Florida Department of Health, Florida health care, Florida health law, health care, health law, healthcare, licensure, licensure investigations, patient complaint
Are you Ready for a HIPAA Investigation?
By: Vanessa A. Reynolds Scarcely a week goes by without a media report of a HIPAA breach – or a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press release announcing a settlement agreement with an organization that suffered a breach. … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA-HITECH, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged Broad and Cassel, compliance, Department of Health and Human Services, Florida healthcare, health care, health law, HHS, HHS Office of Civil Rights, HIPAA, HIPAA Breach, HIPAA compliance program, HIPAA enforcement, HIPAA investigation, OCR, PHI, violation
Protecting Patient Health Information in Florida
Vanessa Reynolds and Stephen Siegel, members of the Firm’s Health Law Practice Group, are the editors of “PROTECTING PATIENT INFORMATION IN FLORIDA.” Ms. Reynolds and Mr. Siegel have prepared this publication in order to provide our clients, colleagues and other … Continue reading
Posted in Regulatory, Risk/Liability, Stephen Siegel, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged Broad and Cassel, Florida health care, Florida health law, health care, health care industry, Health Law Practice Group, healthcare, HIPAA, HIPAA-HITECH, HITECH, liability, patient health information, patient information, PHI, risk, statutes
Broad and Cassel Scholarships Support Continuing Education for Risk Managers
Thanks to a fund established by statewide law firm Broad and Cassel, health care risk managers are able to continue their education through participation in their professional organizations’ state and national conferences. Established in memory of the longtime director of … Continue reading
Posted in Risk/Liability, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged ASHRM, Broad and Cassel, Broward Health, FSHRMPS, health law, Health Law Practice Group, hospitals, insurance, risk, risk management, risk managers
Vanessa Reynolds Elected to Florida Board for Health Care Risk Management and Patient Safety
Vanessa Reynolds, a partner in the Fort Lauderdale office of the statewide law firm Broad and Cassel, has been elected to the board of directors for the Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety (FSHRMPS). FSHRMPS is a … Continue reading
Broad and Cassel Supports BCMA Women Physicians Event
Broad and Cassel was proud to sponsor the Broward County Medical Association’s Women Physicians event on June 4 at The W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. All attendees wore red to show support for the 2014 Go Red for Women campaign … Continue reading
Accountable Care Organizations and Patient Safety
By: Vanessa Reynolds The Affordable Care Act created incentives for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) providers to coordinate patient care across inpatient and outpatient settings to avoid unnecessary duplication of services and to improve patient outcomes. The latter are often dependent … Continue reading
Posted in ACO, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged accountable care, accountable care organization, accountable care organizations, ACO, ACOs, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Broad and Cassel, Florida health law, health care, health care industry, Health Law Practice Group, healthcare, healthcare reform, OIG, Patient Safety, quality, quality of care
ACOs, OHCAs and HIPAA
By: Vanessa Reynolds One of the underlying principles of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) is shared health spending savings and risks, which requires the sharing of protected health information (PHI). All parties to an ACO or other Organized Health Care Arrangement … Continue reading
Posted in ACO, Compliance, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged accountable care organizations, ACOs, Broad and Cassel, business associates, compliance, covered entities, health care, Health Law Practice Group, healthcare, HIPAA, HIPAA requirements, OHCA, organized health care arrangement, PHI, protected health information, shared health spending
Broad and Cassel Sponsors Continuing Education for Local Risk Managers
As the health care industry continues to adopt cost-cutting measures, extra funds for continuing education often are not available for risk managers. To help fill this gap, health law attorneys at Broad and Cassel have joined forces with the Florida … Continue reading
Government Targets EHR-Generated Upcoding
By: Vanessa Reynolds In response to reports of Medicare overbilling by providers, as recently described in The Center for Public Integrity’s “Cracking the Codes” series, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (NCHIT) is undertaking an investigation of the allegations. … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Vanessa Reynolds
Tagged AMA, American Health Information Management Association, Broad and Cassel, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, EHR, electronic health records, Florida health law, health care, health care industry, health law, Health Law Practice Group, healthcare, Medicare, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, NCHIT
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