Know Your Home Field: Health Privacy, Information Blocking
and Incident Response

NYHIMA Education Session

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
11:30am - 1:00pm

Pricing:
Members: $20
Non-members: $30 
Students: Free

1.5 CEU for AHIMA and AAPC

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Join privacy and data security professionals from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, for a brief presentation and moderated discussion covering what’s coming in the healthcare space with respect to HIPAA and information blocking, the latest updates on privacy and ransomware issues, and the compliance and mitigation strategies that can help healthcare companies navigate the tangled legal web and develop a risk-based approach to successfully respond to, mitigate and recover from a data incident.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, is a leading professional services firm, providing integrated legal and consulting services globally to Fortune 500, middle-market and emerging companies across a range of industry sectors. For more information about our privacy and data security and healthcare practices, please visit: https://www.manatt.com/privacy-and-data-security and https://www.manatt.com/health.

Speaker Details

Scott Lashway is the managing partner of Manatt’s Boston office and co-leader of Manatt’s privacy and cybersecurity practice group. He has established himself as one of the nation’s leading cybersecurity and data privacy advisors as well as a go-to counsel for significant disputes and investigations.

Focusing much of his practice on the intersections of law, corporate data and technology, Scott is well known for advising clients to anticipate and manage data governance, privacy and security risks across a variety of industries by deftly guiding them through proactive advisory work, incident response and breach investigations, litigation, and government investigations and enforcement actions. His work on cybersecurity and privacy matters dates back two decades and includes a wide variety of matters, including data and intellectual property (IP) misappropriation; unauthorized access, acquisition and misuse; hacking; and technology disruptions.

While Scott represents clients in a large range of industries, he has a significant focus on the healthcare, financial services and technology sectors. Scott’s greatest accomplishments for his clients are those that avoid headlines and are rarely—if ever—heard of. 

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Randi Seigel’s practice focuses on advising health systems, long-term and post-acute care providers, physician practices, national and regional Medicare and Medicaid Advantage (MA) plans, healthcare startups and other healthcare stakeholders. She provides legal and strategic guidance across a variety of critical areas, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and state privacy laws, corporate practice of medicine, Medicare and Medicaid conditions of participation and billing, fraud and abuse, compliance program requirements, and other regulatory and enforcement matters. Randi also has gained experience in providing regulatory and healthcare advice on a variety of complex transactions within the healthcare industry.

Randi came to Manatt from the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), where she was head compliance officer and privacy officer for VNSNY’s family of corporations, including certified and licensed home care service agencies, hospice, behavioral health providers, a captive professional corporation, New York State Medicaid managed long-term care plan, MA Plan and a health home. In that role, she created and implemented an enterprisewide compliance program that improved oversight, engagement and reporting. In addition, she advised on regulatory constraints and risks associated with strategic objectives and reorganizations, including partnerships with hospitals and ACOs. She also assessed and monitored progress on areas of regulatory exposure, as well as enhanced processes for Code of Conduct; Fraud, Waste and Abuse; and HIPAA training.

Prior to VNSNY, Randi was a healthcare associate at Garfunkel Wild, PC. She represented hospitals, home health agencies, physician practices, pharmacies and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in corporate and regulatory compliance, including researching Medicare and Medicaid billing, reimbursement, and fraud and abuse concerns; evaluating state and federal licensure issues; and responding to Medicare and Medicaid audits and investigations.

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Kevin Powers is a renowned thought leader on data privacy and cybersecurity policy and law, who regularly provides high-level counsel to private and government entities regarding cybersecurity, including assessments, strategies and frameworks, employee training, data security and privacy, incident response, government investigations, and “table top” exercises.

Kevin is the founding director of and a professor for Boston College’s premier master’s degree in cybersecurity, which he created, developed and implemented to better address the needs and issues of the rapidly changing cyber ecosystem.

With a combined 20 years of law enforcement, military, national security, business, higher education and teaching experience, Kevin has worked as an analyst and attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense and law firms in Boston and Washington, D.C., and as the general counsel for an international software company based in Seattle, Washington. Kevin is also a research affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he has taught courses at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was also the deputy general counsel to the superintendent. Kevin regularly provides expert commentary regarding cybersecurity, privacy and national security issues for varying local, national and international media outlets.

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