Attorney Caprez Appointed to Third Consecutive Term as Co-Chair of MBA’s Health Law Section

O’Neil Cannon Attorney Timothy Caprez has recently been re-appointed to serve as Co-Chair of the Health Law Section of the Milwaukee Bar Association (“MBA”) for the upcoming 2010-2011 term. The upcoming term will be Attorney Caprez’s third at the helm of the MBA’s Health Law Section, which is focused on providing legal education resources and networking opportunities for health law attorneys and health care industry professionals.

During the course of Attorney Caprez’s service as its Co-Chair, the Health Law Section has presented seminars regarding a wide range of issues, including:

• complex issues facing hospital in-house counsel;
• physician and facility lease arrangements;
• Stark and state law and regulations prohibiting self-referrals;
• medical staff credentialing and privileging;
• management of disruptive physicians;
• medical staff document analyses;
• Recovery Audit Contractors (“RACs”);
• HIPAA and HITECH Act obligations on physician and facilities;
• impacts of the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 and the related 2009 regulations;
• conflict and coordination of cultural and medicinal practices; and,
• reporting requirements and impact of physician apology related to medical errors.

Such issues are among the many types of matters in which the O’Neil Cannon health law practice provide counsel and representation to entities and individuals in nearly every sector of the health care industry, including provider health systems and networks, hospitals, clinics, long-term care and skilled nursing facilities, physician practice groups, medical suppliers, third-party insurers and individual health care professionals.