Professional Experience
Although Sarah devotes much of her time to representing hospitals and their administrators, her actual breadth of experience is expansive:
Regulatory Compliance
- Provider Regulation (Federal and State)
- Medicare, Conditions of Participation
- Medicaid Reimbursement
- Fraud and Abuse (Including voluntary self-disclosure, internal and governmental investigations)
- Stark (Anti-Self Referral)
- Anti-Kickback
- False Claims Act
- Medical Information and Ehealth
- HIPAA Privacy
- HIPAA Security
- HITECH
- Electronic Health Records
- State Confidentiality Laws
- Record Retention Requirements
- Meaningful Use Requirements
- The Joint Commission Accreditation Standards
- EMTALA
- Antitrust
- Physician and Other Caregiver Reporting
- Peer Review
- HCQIA
- State Peer Review Laws
- Institutional Review Boards - Clinical Trials Research Compliance
Patient Care Issues
- Informed Consent to Treatment
- Issues Particular to Minor Patients
- Ethical Issues / End of Life
- Patient Claims
- Medical Errors
- Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security of Health Care Information
- Sharing of Electronic Medical Records
- Medical Staff Issues and Corrective Action
- Physician, Vendor, and Other Contract Negotiations
- Provider Licensing
- Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse Issues
- Reproductive Rights Issues