Lisa Schmitz Mazur
Subscribe to Lisa Schmitz Mazur's PostsLisa Schmitz Mazur advises health care providers and technology companies on a variety of legal, regulatory and compliance matters with a particular focus on digital health topics, including telehealth, telemedicine, mobile health and consumer wellness. Lisa advises a variety of health care providers and technology companies involved in “digital health,” including assisting clients in developing and implementing telemedicine programs by advising on issues related to professional licensure, scope of practice, informed consent, prescribing and reimbursement. Lisa helps clients identify and understand the relevant legal issues, and develop and implement practical, forward-thinking solutions and strategies that meet the complex and still-evolving digital health regulatory landscape. Read Lisa Schmitz Mazur's full bio.
Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact Eases the Practice of Nursing across State Lines
By Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Sandra M. DiVarco on Oct 17, 2017
Posted In Employee Benefits, Employment, Health and Welfare Plans
The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (Compact) has now been adopted by 26 states, which means the Compact will be taking effect on January 19, 2018. Nurses who seek to practice telemedicine and deliver in-person care across state lines and who meet the Compact’s licensure requirements in these states will have one less obstacle to overcome...
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Many Lessons Still Need to be Learned regarding Patient Access to Health Care Information
By Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Ryan Marcus on Aug 31, 2017
Posted In Health and Welfare Plans, Privacy and Data Security
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently released a report detailing user experience research on patient access to health data. The Report sought to examine the experiences of individuals and processes of health systems, with commentary from medical record fulfillment administrators, to determine how the medical record request process can be...
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Next Generation of Patient Care: Balancing Digital Engagement with Patient and Consumer Privacy
By Jennifer S. Geetter and Lisa Schmitz Mazur on Aug 17, 2017
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans, Privacy and Data Security
Jennifer Geetter and Lisa Schmitz Mazur wrote this bylined article on the regulatory implications of technology-supported devices, resources, and solutions that facilitate health patient-provider interaction. “Health industry regulators are struggling with how to apply the existing privacy regulatory regime, and the permitted uses and disclosures for which they provide, in this new world of healthcare...
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Round Two: Significant Telehealth Expansion Re-Proposed in Bipartisan Senate Bill
By McDermott Will & Emery, Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. on Jul 25, 2017
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
On May 3, 2017, the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act of 2017 (S. 2016) (CONNECT Act of 2017) was reintroduced by the same six senators who had initially introduced the legislation in early 2016 and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance. As we previously reported on February...
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OIG Reports More than $731 Million in Inappropriate Medicare Meaningful Use Payments
By Amanda Enyeart and Lisa Schmitz Mazur on Jul 18, 2017
Posted In Health and Welfare Plans, Privacy and Data Security
Amanda Enyeart and Lisa Schmitz Mazur wrote this bylined article explaining how the HHS Office of Inspector General used a survey by the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program run by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to conclude that CMS made $729 million in inappropriate EHR incentive payments to physicians out of some...
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Last but Not Least, Texas Takes the Final Steps to Embrace Telemedicine
By Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Ryan Marcus on Jul 11, 2017
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans, Privacy and Data Security
As one of the last states to retain highly restrictive (and arguably anti-competitive) telemedicine practice standards, health care providers, regulatory boards, technology companies, payors and other stakeholders have been actively monitoring Texas’ approach to telemedicine regulation and the related Teladoc case. Senate Bill 1107, a bill that significantly eases the delivery of care via telemedicine...
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More Federal Legislation Aimed at Expanding Medicare Coverage of Telehealth Services
By McDermott Will & Emery, Dale C. Van Demark, Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. on Jun 1, 2017
Posted In Health and Welfare Plans
Shelby Buettner, Marshall Jackson, Jr., Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Dale Van Demark wrote this bylined article on a proposed US Senate bill to expand Medicare’s coverage of telehealth services. The bill would require the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test the effectiveness of telehealth models, and cover through the Medicare program those models...
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Employee Benefits Programs in May
By McDermott Will & Emery, Jacob Mattinson, Joseph K. Urwitz, Lisa Loesel, Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Ruth Wimer on Apr 27, 2017
Posted In Employee Benefits, Employment, Labor, Retirement Plans
Join members of the McDermott Employee Benefits team in May at one of these programs covering a variety of employee benefits topics. The John Marshall Law School The Center for Tax Law & Employee Benefits 14th Annual Employee Benefits Symposium | May 1, 2017 | Chicago, Illinois | Speaker, Joseph S. Adams Proposed 457(f) Regulations: Opportunities and...
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Telehealth Benefits on the Rise Despite Low Employee Utilization
By Lisa Schmitz Mazur on Mar 21, 2017
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans, Privacy and Data Security
Lisa Schmitz Mazur wrote this bylined article on the challenges employers face in getting employees to use telehealth benefits. Suggesting that employees either are unaware of or are hesitant to use these benefits, Ms. Mazur wrote that “employers and telehealth providers must develop and implement (often in tandem) strategies for addressing these barriers to increase...
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New ECHO Act Focuses on Integrating Telehealth Solutions into Healthcare Delivery
By McDermott Will & Emery, Lisa Schmitz Mazur and Marshall E. Jackson, Jr. on Jan 4, 2017
Posted In Health and Welfare Plans
On December 14, 2016, President Obama signed the Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes Act (S. 2873) (the ECHO Act). The ECHO Act seeks to expand the use of health care technology and programming to connect underserved communities and populations with critical health care services. The ECHO Act builds upon the University of New Mexico’s world-renowned...
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