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HIPAA and The Administrative Subpoena: How to Protect Yourself from State Medical Licensure Boards and Regulatory Agencies
- The basics of HIPAA privacy requirements
- The basics of HIPAA privacy exceptions with patient consent
- Exceptions to HIPAA privacy for law enforcement purposes for civil matters
- State authority of licensure boards and agencies to exploit HIPAA exceptions
- How exceptions to HIPAA privacy are applied by law enforcement agencies, with an emphasis on state licensure boards and agencies
- State licensure boards and agencies which request Protected Health Information about the patient when you are trouble
- State licensure boards and agencies which request Protected Health Information on multiple patients when you are in trouble
- State open records and investigative laws that apply to protect you when the state licensure board or agency has your patients’ Protected Health Information
Overview of the webinar
This webinar reviews core privacy requirements of HIPAA then covers in detail the ways state licensure boards and agencies use the authority of state law to cover HIPAA exceptions and gain access to your patient records. This webinar shows how state agencies use state law in concert with HIPAA exceptions to conduct government-lead investigations.
What authority exists in state law to do so? How does that mesh with the federal law requirements and privacy mandates of HIPAA? What do you do when the government comes calling for protected health information on your patient? Or on all your patients? And because you are in trouble? What do you do when you are under investigation.
Gain a firm understanding of how state law authorizes state licensure boards and agencies to use HIPAA exceptions to gain access to your patients’ protected health information when you are under investigation. Know the state authority under its police powers to protect the health, welfare, moral and safety of the public in various health care contexts.
Who should attend?
- Health Care Attorneys
- Corporate Compliance Officers in health care
- Medical Records Staff of medical offices and health care entities
- Hospital Attorneys
- Health Care Practitioners who are covered entities
- Law Enforcement Officers in health care compliance
- State Boards and Agencies with jurisdiction over state licenses to practice a health care profession
Why should you attend?
The basic provisions of privacy for protected health information are well known. They serve to protect health information of the patient from prying eyes. Yet exceptions exist that allows state licensure boards and agencies to exploit federal HIPAA exceptions to gain access to your patients’ protected health information.
Why would this happen? Because you are in trouble and your very license to practice your chosen profession is under investigation and is on the line. Examine the law enforcement purposes of a civil nature as applied to both the federal and state government and its law enforcement activities where civil investigations are underway that can result in both criminal and civil consequences. Erase the uncertainty and doubt that exists when the health care practitioner is confronted with a state agency demand for information because you are in trouble and under investigation.
Find out in this informative webinar that arms you with a more complete knowledge of the HIPAA privacy exceptions for law enforcement purposes of a civil nature as applied to state licensure boards and agencies with jurisdiction over your license to practice your chosen profession.
Faculty - Mr.Mark Brengelman
Mark worked as the assigned counsel to numerous health professions licensure boards as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Moving to private practice, he now helps private clients in a wide variety of contexts who are professionally licensed.
Mark became interested in the law when he graduated with both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Philosophy from Emory University in Atlanta. He then earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law. In 1995, Mark became an Assistant Attorney General and focused in the area of administrative and professional law where he represented multiple boards as General Counsel and Prosecuting Attorney.
Mark is a frequent participant in continuing education and has been a presenter for over thirty national and state organizations and private companies, including webinars and in-person seminars. National and state organizations include the Kentucky Bar Association, the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, and the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute.