Practice
What I handle, and what it looks like in practice.
Most of my work falls into four areas. If what you need is next door to one of these, please ask anyway. It is a short conversation.
HIPAA and health privacy counsel
The core question of whether the rules apply to you, and then what they actually require.
- Covered entity and business associate determinations
- Security risk analysis and the documentation that has to sit behind it
- Notice of Privacy Practices, including the substance use disorder provisions
- Patient requests for records, amendments, and accountings of disclosures
- Breach assessment and notification, including the first forty-eight hours
Compliance program design
Building the thing, not grading it afterward. This is the part of my background that is unusual for a lawyer.
- Written policies and procedures sized to the practice, not to a hospital
- Workforce training and the records that prove it happened
- Incident response planning before there is an incident
- Annual review routines a small team can keep without a compliance officer
Vendor agreements and contract review
The paperwork sitting between a practice and everyone who touches its records.
- Business Associate Agreements, drafted or reviewed, on either side of the table
- Working out which vendors legally need an agreement and which do not
- Software, billing, and records storage contracts
- Subcontractor chains, where the obligations flow further than people expect
Counsel to companies serving healthcare
For the business associate side: health technology, billing, and compliance vendors.
- Reviewing the templates and materials you hand to your own clients
- Marketing claims review, because compliance claims are the expensive kind to get wrong
- Terms of service, privacy policies, and client agreements
- Legal oversight of educational content published to healthcare audiences
Fees
You should know what this costs before you start.
My work is billed hourly. The first conversation is free.
Before any work starts, you get a written estimate of the time and cost. Nothing is billed beyond that estimate without your OK.
Not sure which of these you need?
Describe the situation in a sentence or two and I will tell you. No charge for that part.