HIPAA/HITECH
This area involves familiarity, understanding and counseling with respect to health information and privacy laws. Since their introduction on the federal level in the late 1990s, privacy laws have added significant administrative burdens to participants in the health care industry. Like other health care laws, privacy laws are complex and dynamic. Broad expansion, new obligations and heightened enforcement measures are a development ushered in by the recent “health care reform legislation.” Detailed knowledge of these laws and regulations makes Kotz Sangster’s Health Care Practice Group an important partner to industry participants from drafting and reviewing policies and procedures to providing sound advice, guidance and advocacy in addressing HIPPA issues.
