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2020 Legal Updates That Impact Your Organization
Adult Day; AL; HCBS; IL; PACE; SNF/LTC

Back by popular demand. This session will explore updates in federal and state laws as well as recent cases and enforcement activities that impact long-term services and support services (LTSS) and their operations. 

  • Discuss recent changes to select state and federal laws impacting long-term care providers.
  • Describe recent cases and enforcement initiatives of state and federal authorities that impact long-term care.
  • Analyze how new laws, cases and enforcement initiatives impact operations and strategic compliance activities.
  • Define “privileged documents” as it relates to a facility’s internal documents, and review laws related to “privileged” information to determine what to disclose to surveyors.

Alissa Smith, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney, Des Moines
Alissa Smith is a partner in Dorsey & Whitney LLP’s health group. Smith represents health care organizations such as health systems, hospitals, pharmacies, long-term care providers, home health agencies and medical practices, as well as nonprofit and municipal organizations. Smith’s practice involves a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters facing health care providers, nonprofit organizations, and municipal entities. Her transactional practice includes contracts, leases, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Smith’s regulatory practice includes the interpretation and application of state and federal fraud and abuse laws, Medicare and Medicaid rules, tax-exemption laws, HIPAA and privacy laws, EMTALA laws, licensing matters, employment laws, governmental audits, open records and open meetings matters, and corporate and health system governance issues including the revision and negotiation of medical staff bylaws. She also assists with hospital-provider relations such as co-management arrangements, peer review investigations, and medical staff fair hearings. Smith represents health care providers before the State Health Facilities Council in Certificate of Need hearings.

Ed McIntosh, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney, Des Moines 
Ed McIntosh is a partner and co-chair of Dorsey’s Health Transactions and Regulations practice.  He helps a variety of health care providers address complex regulatory issues, strategic acquisitions, affiliation and contractual agreements. He represents large metropolitan hospitals as well as critical access hospitals, retirement communities and physician groups, on a broad range of health, employment, regulatory and litigation matters. He has represented health care providers in the development of co-management agreements, acquisition of physician practices, and medical director agreements. He appears frequently before administrative agencies, including the State Health Facilities Council, the agency which evaluates applications for Certificates of Need in Iowa. He represents nursing homes in administrative proceedings related to surveys. 


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