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Nelson Hardiman, LLP

Nelson Hardiman, LLP is the leading law firm in the United States with respect to issues affecting the behavioral healthcare community. They are regularly asked to address emerging challenges including crisis response, growth strategy, and issues related to licensing, operations, and reimbursement of addiction treatment, mental health, and other behavioral programs.

 

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Nelson Hardiman, LLP has represented hundreds of addiction treatment providers and has been integrally involved in advocacy efforts on behalf of numerous organizations initiative to establish guidelines to comply with the ever-evolving regulatory landscape. They guide addiction treatment providers through regulatory and reimbursement challenges and make sure their clients stay on top of the ever-changing standards impacting the industry.

They have worked closely with a wide range of addiction treatment providers on the most difficult problems related to licensure, operations, and reimbursement, giving strategic advice on new opportunities, advising on business and regulatory matters, and resolving disputes of all kinds, whether informally, in court or, through arbitration.

Harry Nelson is the founder and managing partner of Nelson Hardiman, LLC, as well as the chairman of the National Behavioral Health Association of Providers.

Beyond his legal expertise, Harry is known nationally as a consummate leader at the intersection of healthcare law and business, as evidenced by his role in co-founding five healthcare-related start-ups in the last decade. Deeply immersed in healthcare transformation and innovation; he frequently speaks on cutting edge issues and the future of the industry itself.

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Webinar: How to Avoid Getting Wiped Out by the Wave of Commercial Payor Behavioral Health Audits

Webinar: How to Avoid Getting Wiped Out by the Wave of Commercial Payor Behavioral Health Audits

  • Date Recorded: October 4, 2018
  • Presenters: Paul Gilbert and John Mills
  • Price: free

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This webinar examines the most common issues arising in payor audits (including medical necessity; patient financial responsibility; and other issues asserted to constitute fraud, waste, or abuse) and the common arguments used as grounds for the nonpayment or recoupment of fees by insurers.

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Webinar: Is Your Organization At Risk for Patient Brokering? Preparing for SB1228 and Impeding Changes in California’s Regulation of Addiction Treatment Marketing

Webinar: Is Your Organization At Risk for Patient Brokering? Preparing for SB1228 and Impeding Changes in California’s Regulation of Addiction Treatment Marketing

  • Date Recorded: September 6, 2018
  • Presenters: Harry Nelson and Paul Gilbert
  • Price: free

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This webinar examines the implications of SB1228 and its impending changes to the rules governing marketing practices in residential and outpatient treatment, as well as sober living recovery residences. Also addressed will be problematic current practices and the future of compliant marketing relationships.

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Webinar: Florida Model in California? The Do’s, the Don’ts, and the Other

Webinar: Florida Model in California? The Do’s, the Don’ts, and the Other

  • Date Recorded: December 14, 2016
  • Presenters: Harry Nelson and Dave Sheridan
  • Price: free

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The “Florida Model” — the practice of combining unlicensed sober living with outpatient programs — has proliferated in California, even over the objections of regulators that the combination of these services violates California law. What does the law actually provide? When is it a problem to integrate unlicensed sober living with outpatient addiction treatment? Will we see legislative solutions to clarify or limit these practices? This website will clarify one of the most confusing topics in California and elsewhere.

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Webinar: UDT: Urine Drug Testing — Understanding the Compliance Minefield

Webinar: UDT: Urine Drug Testing — Understanding the Compliance Minefield

  • Date Recorded: November 23, 2016
  • Presenter: Harry Nelson
  • Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)

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There are certain components of running an addiction treatment facility that might seem so straightforward, self-explanatory, and uncomplicated that you don’t give them a second thought. Urine drug testing (UDT) is likely one of those. Despite the layers of complexity, this webinar will help show what you need to in order to steer clear of a regulatory nightmare down the road.

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Webinar: Managing Crisis Part 2: Responding to Government Encounters and Action

Webinar: Managing Crisis Part 2: Responding to Government Encounters and Action

  • Date Recorded: October 26, 2016
  • Presenter: Harry Nelson
  • Price: $50.00 (Members receive 15% discount)

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In the second part of this two-part webinar series on managing crisis, you will learn how to prepare your staff (and yourself) for the event of a government investigation so that the outcome doesn’t bring unnecessary harm to your business. This webinar covers a wide spectrum of facility-authority interactions, from subpoenas to search warrants and much in between.

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