Laurie
T.
Cohen
Partner
518.449.8893
Albany
Laurie Cohen focuses her practice on health law, representing a large and growing base of health care providers in corporate and regulatory matters. She has a broad range of experience providing business, transactional and regulatory guidance and services to individual hospitals, health care networks, physician groups and other health care providers. She also serves as counsel to a number of health care associations.
Laurie understands that health care providers are confronted with the same issues as many other businesses, with the added complexity of a myriad of regulatory requirements. She has built long-term client relationships by anticipating how her clients can best position themselves to prepare for or influence change as well as take advantage of new opportunities in the dynamic health care field.
Prior to joining Wilson Elser, Laurie served as the counsel to the Division of Governmental Affairs of the Medical Society of the State of New York.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Health Care
Laurie has extensive knowledge in the areas of not-for-profit governance, health information privacy, professional licensure, and fraud and abuse, including state and federal self-referral, anti-kickback and fee-splitting rules.
Laurie regularly counsels hospitals and physician groups on a wide range of issues, including corporate compliance, privacy breaches, hospital/physician issues, medical staff matters, credentialing and peer review activities. In addition, she drafts and negotiates managed care, employment, professional service and other contracts for her clients.
Laurie also serves as general outside counsel to a number of health care associations and frequently addresses their boards and members on various health care-related topics.
Admissions
New York
Vermont
Education
Albany Law School, J.D., 1989
Trinity College, B.A.
Professional Memberships
New York State Bar Association, Health Law Section
American Health Lawyers Association
Publications
Chapter editor: "Billing and Reimbursement Issues for the Physician Office" (Chapter 15), "Closure or Sale of a Medical Practice" (Chapter 20), "Physician Profiling" (Chapter 51), and "Committee for Physicians' Health and Physician Impairment" (Chapter 52), Legal Manual for New York Physicians, Third Edition, New York State Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education Department, 2011
"New Employer Reporting Requirements" (co-author with Jason M. LaFlam), New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians (NYACP), Counsel's Forum, August 2011
"OCR Issued Proposed Rule Addressing Expanded Right of a Patient to an Accounting of PHI Disclosures," Health Care News, June 2011
"Physicians to Offer Information and Counseling Regarding Palliative Care," Health Care News, April 2011
"OCR to Conduct HIPAA Enforcement Training for State Attorneys General," Health Care News, April 2011
"Requests from Patients for Prescriptions for OTC Drugs," NYACP, Counsel's Forum, January 2011
"Mandatory Provider Compliance Programs Under PPACA," Health Care News, January 2011
"Hospital Code Amendments to Ease Credentialing Obligations and Emergency Department Response Time," Health Care News, January 2011
"Are You Prepared to Demonstrate to OMIG the Effectiveness of Your Compliance Plan?," Wilson Elser Client Alert, December 2010
"When is Medicare the Primary Payer?" (co-author with Jason M. LaFlam), NYACP, Counsel's Forum, October 2010
"New HIV Testing Rules in New York," NYACP, Counsel's Forum, September 2010
"New Disclosure Requirement under In-Office Ancillary Services Exception" (co-author with Jason M. LaFlam), NYACP, Counsel's Forum, September 2010
"The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and Business Associates" (co-author with Christine R. Hayes), NYACP, Counsel's Forum, August 2010
"Do Your Business Associate Agreements and HIPAA Policies Incorporate the Requirements of the New Breach Notification Regulations?" (co-author with Jason M. LaFlam), NYACP, Counsel's Forum, March 2010
Presentations
"Understanding a Contract: Top Ten Things Every Trainee Should Know Before Signing," October 2011 and November 2010
"Recommendations of NYS Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT)," October 2011
"The Board's Role in Hospital Compliance," October 2011
"Family Health Care Decisions Act (FHCDA), Legal Issues in Nursing," October 2011
"Hospital Board Education: Duties of Directors and Officers," September 2011 and July 2010
"Challenges and Opportunities, 2011 and Beyond – Role of the Hospital Trustee," September 2011
"Palliative Care Information Act," April 2011
"Quality Assurance and Peer Review in New York State," March 2011 and July 2010
"Family Health Care Decisions Act (FHCDA)," February 2011
"HIPAA Privacy and Security," February 2011
"EMTALA: New HIV Testing Rules in New York and FHCDA," November 2010
"HIPAA and HITECH Training," July 2010
"HIPAA and the HITECH Act: Evolving Implications for Managed Care Organizations," June 2010
"HIPAA and HITECH," March 2010