Ms. Keefe provides regulatory and transactional guidance to a variety of health care organizations
including proprietary and not-for-profit health systems, academic medical centers, health insurance and
managed care organizations and vendors to the health care industry. She counsels her clients on federal
and state health care reform, managed care contracting, fraud and abuse, electronic medical records,
health information privacy and security, facility licensing, medical staff issues, regulatory compliance and
government reimbursement programs, including Medicare Advantage, Part D and state Medicaid
programs.
Ms. Keefe served as Deputy General Counsel at Independence Blue Cross where she was head of the
health insurer’s managed care law group and as General Counsel of Keystone Health Plan East. She is
also a frequent speaker on health law issues for trade and professional associations including the
American Health Lawyers Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
Theodore Kobus, Esq., Chair, Technology, Media, and Intellectual Property Practice Group, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin
Ted advises and speaks with clients, trade groups and organizations
regarding Data Security and Privacy issues and breaches,
as they relate to various industries including healthcare companies,
insurance companies, educational institutions, retail stores,
restaurants, financial organizations, and technology companies. Ted and his group have counseled clients involved in significant breaches implicating state and federal laws, international
laws, and other regulations and requirements. Teds
group has dealt with Offi ces of Attorneys General, state insurance
departments, Offi ce of Civil Rights/Health and Human Services, Secret Service, FBI, local police and forensics professionals as part
of their handling of data breaches.
Kim Holmes is Assistant Vice President, Chubb & Son, and the Deputy Worldwide Health Care Product Manager of Chubb Specialty Insurance (CSI). CSI is the Warren, N.J.-based executive protection and professional liability underwriting division of Chubb.
As Deputy Worldwide Product Manager, Kim oversees all product lines for CSI Health Care, including D&O, EPL, Fiduciary, Crime, Kidnap/Ransom & Extortion, and Cyber liability. She is the primary contact nationally for underwriters with respect to account issues, technical guidance, and serves as liaison to the Claims and Legal departments for Health Care Product Management.
Kim left private practice to join Chubb in 1999 as a Claims Attorney handling Accountants Professional Liability and Lawyers Professional Liability claims as well as conducting in-house training seminars for new hire orientation programs and presenting internal and external seminars on employment law. She then served as a Senior Claims Officer handling Health Care D&O and high-severity EPL matters from 2000-2004.
Description
The unique, complex and evolving landscape of Medicare/Medicaid government audits, cyber liability under HIPAA/HITECH and how mid-sized Health Care organizations may expect government enforcement efforts to affect them in the near term will be examined in depth (as well as Best Practices for mitigating risk) from the vantage points of outside attorney experts specializing in Regulatory and Data Breach/Privacy Liability for Health Care organizations, as well as a Chubb Health Care Product Manager who creates coverage solutions for Mid-Sized Health Care organizations to mitigate risk and exposure in this highly scrutinized market sector.