August 17, 2021 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: What Health Care Lawyers Need to Know
Time: 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm
Place: Cisco WebEx
Our August 17 program takes up Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and its regulations. Section 1557 was the first health care-specific anti-discrimination provision in federal law. Regulations promulgated in 2016 established the provision’s broad coverage, including requirements that health care entities provide signage and documents in various languages and a declaration that the term “sex discrimination” in the law extended to protect transgender individuals. The Trump Administration made changing the Section 1557 regulations a priority, narrowing the entities subject to the law, limiting the language requirements, removing transgender protections, and focusing on religious discrimination. Since then, the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have weighed in on aspects of the law, and now the Biden Administration is actively addressing the scope of the regulation through enforcement positions and proposed revision to the regulations. Meanwhile, healthcare entities have pursued their own course, continuing to incorporate anti-discrimination provisions into their policies and culture.
This program will address the history, current status and course forward for Section 1557 and its regulations, including discussion of major court decisions and practical realities for providers.
Our speakers are:
- Trent Stechschulte, General Counsel and Compliance Officer for Equitas Health, a Columbus, Ohio-based regional nonprofit community healthcare system. Equitas Health is one of the largest LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS-serving systems in the U.S., with 21 offices in 3 states. Trent regularly works with Equitas leadership, providers, pharmacists, and other personnel on a wide variety of health care and corporate issues. He is the Chair of the Equitas Compliance Committee.
- Karen Owens, a partner in Coppersmith Brockelman PLC, a Phoenix-based law firm with a comprehensive health care regulatory practice. Karen’s work focuses on clinical issues affecting providers, including health and safety regulation, licensure and certification matters, and medical staff-related issues.
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