Healthcare Staffing Shortages Due to COVID-19: Licensure, Credentialing, Reimbursement, Employment Considerations
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide healthcare counsel addressing the staffing shortages that many hospitals and healthcare providers are facing. The panel will discuss licensing and credentialing issues relating to the reallocation of physician and provider resources. The panel will also address billing and reimbursement challenges as well as malpractice considerations. The panel will offer best practices for meeting staffing needs in an evolving environment.
Outline
- Licensing, credentialing, and privileging
- Billing and reimbursement
- Malpractice considerations
Benefits
The panel will review these and other crucial issues:
- To what extent can out-of-state practitioners, retired practitioners, or those with inactive licenses from other states provide services in each state?
- Can providers be reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurers, or other payers for services provided by out-of-state or retired practitioners or those with inactive licenses?
- Are retired practitioners or those with inactive licenses shielded from malpractice liability?
- What are the legal considerations relating to reallocation of physicians within a facility and between facilities?
- What protections are available for reallocated physicians and what are the main risks?
- What employment issues should providers consider in responding to, or trying to limit, staffing shortages?
Faculty
Helaine I. Fingold
Member
Epstein Becker & Green
Ms. Fingold’s practice focuses largely on the regulation of Medicare managed care (including Medicare Advantage,... | Read More
Ms. Fingold’s practice focuses largely on the regulation of Medicare managed care (including Medicare Advantage, Part D, dual eligibles, PACE, demonstrations), Medicaid managed care, commercial managed care products (including surprise billing), and behavioral health (including mental health parity). Her clients range from small start-ups to large corporate entities with multiple subsidiaries. They include Medicare Advantage, PACE, Medicaid, and other managed care plans; provider entities; vendors to providers and managed care companies (including administrative support entities, providers of software and online services, agents/brokers/field marketing organizations, and advertising/marketing entities). Before building her private practice, Ms. Fingold gained 20 years of experience in the federal government: 13 years at CMS, working on Medicaid, Medicare Advantage/Part D, and ACA implementation, and seven years at MedPAC.
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Nathaniel M. Glasser
Partner
Epstein Becker & Green
Mr. Glasser’s practice focuses on the representation of leading companies and firms, including publishing... | Read More
Mr. Glasser’s practice focuses on the representation of leading companies and firms, including publishing and media companies, financial services institutions, and law firms, in all areas of labor and employment relations. His experience includes defending clients in employment litigation in federal and state court, and in arbitration tribunals involving claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation and breach of contract, among others.
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Delphine O’Rourke
Partner
Duane Morris
Ms. O’Rourke partners with healthcare organizations, boards of directors and executive management teams to solve... | Read More
Ms. O’Rourke partners with healthcare organizations, boards of directors and executive management teams to solve their greatest regulatory challenges and advance their strategic, financial and operational goals. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. O’Rourke was Associate General Counsel of Ascension and served in legal roles of increasing responsibility for the $23 billion health enterprise. As a partner in the firm’s health practice, Ms. O’Rourke continues to serve as lead outside counsel to health systems, hospitals and hospital associations. Clients and industry experts also rely on Ms. O’Rourke to engage with their key stakeholders on topics including the impact of new legislation on health systems and hospitals, board oversight of health system compliance and inclusionary leadership. Her insight and commentary have been featured by Modern Healthcare, Bloomberg Law, Law360 and other leading legal and industry publications.
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