Events for March 27 - July 30, 2024

This year's in-person program will focus on state legislation from the 2023 legislative session. As well, we'll provide a preview to next year's election and how it may impact the next two years in the policymaking arena. Jason Bezozo is the Vice President for Government Relations at Banner Health. He worked at the Arizona State […]

This presentation will cover the different investigative processes used by the major Arizona professional boards, due process concerns during investigations, ways to address and mitigate errors and deviations from the standard of care, the review and rehearing process, and Superior Court appeals.  This presentation will also discuss successful approaches to certain types of cases, along […]

Matthew Williams, Senior Litigation Counsel for the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, and Benjamin Runkle, Partner at Gammage & Burnham, discuss the current crisis in Arizona’s behavioral health system including: common regulatory issues; problematic arrangements among behavioral health providers, residential facilities, and sober living homes; and the current state of play. Ben Runkle is a partner […]

Lon Leavitt, Assistant United States Attorney, Brett Johnson, Partner at Snell & Wilmer, Nick Verderame, Associate at Plattner Verderame, and Claudia Stedman, Associate at Snell & Wilmer will discuss the impact of the recent Supreme Court decisions in Safeway, SuperValu, Polansky (among others) on the future of the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and its enforcement. This program will be […]

The 21st Century Cures Act required the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) to support nationwide data exchange. The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) designated the Sequoia Project as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) responsible for developing, […]

Date: Friday, February 23, 2024 Registration and Morning Refreshments: 8:00 am – 9:00 am MST Programming: 9:00 am – 4:15 pm MST Social Hour: 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm MST Location: Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, 340 N. 3rd St, Phoenix, AZ 85004 VIEW CONFERENCE PROGRAM   We’d like to invite you to attend the Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorney (AzSHA) […]

Effective January 1, 2024, the CTA requires some 33+ million companies to report their beneficial ownership information to FinCEN.  While this mostly affects previously unregulated businesses with less than 20 full-time employees, exempt companies should still know the CTA basics as their exempt status may change.  Fines of $591/day may be assessed against individual business […]

Speakers from the CMS, Office of Burden Reduction and Health Informatics (OBRHI) Health Informatics and Interoperability Group (HIIG) will provide information and insights on the new CMS interoperability mandates and prior authorizations requirements for CMS-regulated payers and health care providers that participate in the CMS Promoting Interoperability program. On January 17, 2024, CMS released the […]

On April 9, the Arizona Supreme Court declared in Planned Parenthood v. Mayes that Arizona’s old, nearly total abortion ban would become the law of the state. The Arizona legislature quickly repealed the law (repeal signed May 2). This turn of events eventually will put the 15-week limit on abortions back in place, but the […]

This program provides a broad overview of what a community health center is, including a brief history of health centers in the United States, federal requirements with which health centers must comply, the differences between federally qualified health centers and look-alikes, the different grants available to health centers, and the primary legal and policy issues […]

On February 16, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Office for Civil Rights, published a final rule modifying 42 CFR Part 2 (“The Part 2 Regulations”) to implement Section 3221 of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (the “CARES […]

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which overturned Chevron’s requirement of judicial deference to federal agency decisions, will rewrite administrative law, with public health impacts both immediate and extending for decades to come.  In this session, Professor James Hodge of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State […]