Attorney Caprez Reappointed as Co-Chair of Milwaukee Bar Association Health Law Section

Attorney Timothy Caprez has recently been reappointed to serve a fourth consecutive term as Co-Chair of the Milwaukee Bar Association (“MBA”) Health Law Section. Under his direction, the MBA Health Law Section has presented numerous seminars focused on educating attorneys, executives and medical professionals on continuing developments and emergent issues within the complex legal landscape of the health care industry.

The topics on which the MBA Health Law Section has presented such seminars during the course of Attorney Caprez’s service as Co-Chair include:

• implications of recently-enacted health care reform laws;
• physician supervision issues;
• statutory, regulatory and credentialing requirements of physician assistants, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists;
• hot topics for 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 2009 regulations promulgated under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005;
• conflict and coordination of cultural and medicinal practices; and,
• implications of reporting requirements and physician apologies related to medical errors.

Such issues are among the many types of matters in which the O’Neil Cannon health law practice provides 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.