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Legal Updates for Aging Services

The presenters are health care attorneys who regularly represent and advise providers of long-term care and aging services. This session will provide a description of recent laws and regulations impacting long-term care and aging services providers, as well as real world illustrations of their impact. The presenters will also explain new state and federal cases, settlements, and agency guidance, along with tips and takeaways from each. Finally, the session will include a discussion portion for questions and answers to address the applications of the new laws.

  • Review new federal and state statutes and regulations governing long-term care and aging services providers.
  • Describe recent cases, settlements, and agency guidance impacting long-term care and aging services providers.
  • Identify tips and recommended practices to comply with new laws and avoid legal pitfalls.

Alissa Smith, JD, MHA, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, West Des Moines
Alissa Smith is a partner in Dorsey & Whitney LLP’s health group. Smith represents health care organizations such as health systems, hospitals, pharmacies, long-term care providers, home health agencies, and medical practices, as well as nonprofit and municipal organizations. Smith’s practice involves a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters facing health care providers, nonprofit organizations, and municipal entities. Her transactional practice includes contracts, leases, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Smith’s regulatory practice includes the interpretation and application of state and federal fraud and abuse laws, Medicare and Medicaid rules, tax-exemption laws, HIPAA and privacy laws, EMTALA laws, licensing matters, employment laws, governmental audits, open records and open meetings matters, and corporate and health system governance issues including the revision and negotiation of medical staff bylaws. She also assists with hospital-provider relations such as co-management arrangements, peer review investigations, and medical staff fair hearings. Smith represents health care providers before the State Health Facilities Council in Certificate of Need hearings.

Katie Cownie, JD, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, West Des Moines
Katie Cownie has worked on business and corporate issues for more than 20 years. Many of the clients she works with are involved in health care in some fashion. Her clients include long-term care facilities, hospitals, mental health providers, physicians, and dentists. In addition to her health care expertise, she has spent many years working with clients in the renewable fuels area. She provides representation related to entity organization, contracting, and raising capital.


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