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Our National Seminars are designed to deliver innovative and cutting-edge solutions to the most pressing issues your physician and administrative leaders and organizations face on a daily basis. Whether your challenges are medical staff related, dealing with credentialing or peer review issues, or negotiating contracts, we have a seminar to fit your needs. Join us this season in Phoenix, Amelia Island, or New Orleans to learn from our nationally recognized faculty.

Watch Now: The Blue Cross Antitrust Class Action Settlement – Show Me the Money
Blue Cross Blue Shield recently agreed to settle antitrust claims after more than a decade of litigation. The deadline to submit a claim for a share of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Proposed Net Settlement Fund is quickly approaching. Join attorneys Dan Mulholland and Moises A. Tonoc Bonilla for this informative how-to so that you don’t miss out on the opportunity to receive a piece of the settlement fund.

What’s New in Health Law

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New Cases

Reputational Harm Enough to Support Wrongful Disclosure Claim

The Missouri Court of Appeals determined that a hospital employee whose coworkers accessed her patient records without her consent, discovered she had refused to be vaccinated for COVID‑19, and shared that information resulting in the employee being ostracized, ridiculed, and harassed by her coworkers, had alleged actual, particularized injuries such as emotional distress, harassment, embarrassment, humiliation, and loss of privacy that were sufficient to support her claim of wrongful disclosure of her records as a result of the hospital’s failure to protect her confidential medical records. Howland v. Truman Med. Ctr., Inc.

To read more about this case and to find out what’s new in healthcare law, visit our What’s New page

Question of the Week

We are having a hard time getting medical staff members who are willing to serve on committees and currently have a significant number of medical staff spots that we need to fill on our infection prevention committee, performance improvement committee, tissue committee, and the pharmacy and therapeutics committee.  One idea was to try and consolidate some of these functions so there are fewer committees.  Is this doable? Advisable?

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HortySpringer’s Contract Control Program for Hospitals and Healthcare Systems is now available!

Healthcare contracts can be challenging, but with the right support, they don’t have to be. We have teamed up with our friends from LegalSifter to offer a tailored Contract Control Program just for hospitals and health systems. This lets you review contracts you receive from others, draft new contracts using HortySpringer curated templates, negotiate agreements and manage the contracts after they’re signed. It’s a full-service solution that simplifies the entire contract process.

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