Overview
Navigating the legal landscape of behavioral health services can be challenging. Our team supports healthcare professionals and facilities in meeting these requirements, ensuring compliance and smooth operation. We work with a diverse range of clients, including hospitals, community mental health centers, substance use treatment facilities, and behavioral health practitioners, helping them deliver quality care without legal concerns.
We help providers focusing on behavioral health ensure compliance with regulations when faced with complicated patient care or operational issues. With decades of experience, we offer guidance on regulatory compliance, reimbursement and audit appeals, licensure enforcement actions and internal investigations. We also provide representation against claims of malpractice and matters that may result in litigation. We understand the complex field of behavioral healthcare and provide prompt responses in urgent situations.
Services:
- Ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations regarding mental health and substance use treatment records such as 42 CFR Part 2
- Professional licensing and ethical issues
- Audits and internal investigations
- Stark Law compliance
- HIPPA compliance
- Employment contracts and disputes
- Malpractice defense
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Experience
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Events
- Health Care Workplace Violence: Strategies for Mitigation
Health Care Workplace Violence: Strategies for MitigationJoin Jarrod Malone at the 2024 Professional Ethics Seminar hosted by the University of Southern Indiana, Ascension of St. Vincent Evansville and Deaconess Health System in Evansville, IN.
- Impact of Strengthened Mental Health Parity Laws: What Employers and Health Care Providers Need to Know
Impact of Strengthened Mental Health Parity Laws: What Employers and Health Care Providers Need to KnowInsurance coverage requirements for mental health and substance use disorders (“MH/SUDs”) is changing in a way that impacts group health plans, employers, and behavioral health providers.
- Understanding 42 CFR Part 2, Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records
Understanding 42 CFR Part 2, Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient RecordsDavid Jose presented to a group of behavioral health/substance use disorder clinicians regarding the strict confidentiality requirements under federal law (42 CFR Part 2) for SUD treatment records.