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
- Length: about an hour
- Price: free
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There is a confluence of national and local public policy developments regarding mental health, substance use disorders, and treatment. The federal government, working in partnership with states, addresses behavioral health issues and establishes and enforces minimum standards. States, however, have significant power in making decisions—mental health regulations and available services can look very different from state to state, and even from county to county.
This was part of a partnership between Behavioral Health Association of Providers, Epstein Becker Green, and Nelson Hardiman: offering a winter / spring webinar series that addressed topics highlighting the accelerating legal and policy issues for the behavioral health industry.
Patient brokering, the practice of recruiting people in need of treatment for substance use disorders in exchange for kickbacks, has been a troubling practice in California, leading to concerns of patient endangerment and fraud.
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.
Presenters
Harry Nelson
Harry Nelson is the founder and managing partner of Nelson Hardiman, LLC, as well as the chairman of 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.
Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert is in the Health Care & Life Sciences and Corporate Services division of Epstein Becker Green.
Paul regularly represents a broad range of health care provider and private equity clients in transactional, corporate, governance, compliance oversight, strategic, and change and crises management matters. He also counsels health care boards of directors on corporate governance, strategic alternative considerations, compliance oversight, and fiduciary duty matters.
Webinar: Is Your Organization At Risk for Patient Brokering? Preparing for SB1228 and Impeding Changes in California’s Regulation of Addiction Treatment Marketing
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Note: this webinar series was hosted by Epstein Becker Green. The webinar / slides are available on their site, linked above.
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