Health Care Investigations by the Government – How They Do It

HEALTHCARE Apr 06, 2021 60 minutes
01:00 PM EST 12:00 PM CST 11:00 AM MST 10:00 AM PST

Description:-

In this advanced webinar, you will learn the general steps a state government agency undertakes to conduct investigations into alleged misconduct in health care practice with a focus on state licensure boards that license and regulate various health care practitioners under state law.

These kinds of investigations either exonerate or implicate licensed health care practitioners for potential violations of law for which their license to practice is at stake.  

These kinds of investigations may begin as civil matters and then may even proceed to criminal violations for health care crimes - either may result in ruinous practice and career consequences for the health care professional held to defend the investigations.  

This advanced webinar offers an objective, thorough review of the state licensure board investigations conducted by the government against a licensed health care practitioner.  Review the different standards and rights of the accused under investigation by the state against an individual health care practitioner.  

Recognize the basic difference in civil and criminal investigations – where both may be carried out by the same agency.

State agencies routinely handle, investigate, and dismiss -- or prosecute -- alleged violations of law that can be career-ending for the health care practitioner.  Understand and overcome roadblocks to your defense of the agency’s investigating and prosecuting an administrative disciplinary action.

This advanced webinar offers an objective, thorough review of the state agency investigative procedures that are applied against a licensed health care practitioner for alleged health care fraud or licensure violations.

Areas Covered in the Session:-

  • Legal standards for civil licensure board investigations;
  • Due process rights and procedures for civil investigations;
  • Government remedies to seek both civil and criminal penalties;
  • Defenses to the civil investigative process, and;
  • Select case law review of applicable health care fraud and licensure cases.

Why Should you Attend?

State and federal government agencies tasked with investigating alleged misconduct in health care generally follow prescribed steps in investigating the misconduct.  Gathering (and even seizing) voluminous evidence and interviewing witnesses – such as former employees (and even current employees) – is a little-known process for the health care practitioner.

When an initiating complaint is filed with a state government agency that proceeds to investigate, the health care practitioner is now the target of an uncertain process as unknown to the practitioner.

This advanced webinar dispels the uncertainty about how investigations are conducted by a state or federal government agency.  Health care practitioners who are fully informed about these procedures may better defend their actions and work successfully through the investigative process.

This advanced webinar then focuses on the unique investigative procedures used in state licensure board cases where a doctor or nurse, or any licensed health care professional, is under investigation and may lose their license to practice their chosen profession.

Who Will Benefit?

  • Attorneys at Law
  • Hospital Administrators
  • Health Care Facility Managers
  • Government employees
  • Physician and Medical Office Managers
Presenter BIO

Mark R. Brengelman, Attorney at Law

Mark worked as the assigned counsel to numerous health professions licensure boards as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.  Moving to private practice, he now helps private clients in a wide variety of contexts who are professionally licensed.

Mark became interested in the law when he graduated with both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Philosophy from Emory University in Atlanta.  He then earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law.  In 1995, Mark became an Assistant Attorney General and focused on the area of administrative and professional law where he represented multiple boards as General Counsel and Prosecuting Attorney.

Mark is a frequent participant in continuing education and has been a presenter for over fifty national and state organizations and private companies, including webinars and in-person seminars.  National and state organizations include the Kentucky Bar Association, the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, and the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute.

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