Michael A. Murer, J.D., is Executive Vice
President and General Counsel for the Murer Group. Mr. Murer received his Juris Doctor degree
from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. and earned his
Bachelor of Arts degree in European History at Purdue University in West
Lafayette, Indiana.
Mr. Murer’s areas of expertise include
interfacing healthcare management with the changing regulatory
environment. He has written and lectured
extensively in the areas of compliance, electronic medical records, e-commerce,
safe harbors, fraud and abuse, the Stark Laws and the structuring of joint
ventures and HIPAA. Some of his lectures
include: “Advancing Technology and the Medical Record” at the Healthcare
Informatics Expo and Conference in Chicago, Illinois, “HIPAA and E-Commerce” at
the HFMA Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, “HIPAA Mapping and Plotting,”
for the Illinois Association of Health Plans/RX 2000 Institute in Chicago,
Illinois and most recently “How to Train Your Staff on HIPAA Privacy,” for Eli
Research teleconference.
Mr. Murer has been a member of the Legal
Work Group for Health Information Security & Privacy Collaboration
(HISPC)-Illinois II since 2007. This
group worked on developing a model uniform patient Electronic Health Record
(HER)/Health Information Exchange (HIE) consent form for possible use by the
state-level HIE, clinicians, healthcare facilities and other providers. The Legal Work Group was also tasked with the
development of a plan to disseminate the consent form and encourage its
use. In July of 2009, the group was
absorbed by the Illinois “Health Information Exchange Advisory Committee”.
Mr. Murer served as Assistant Treasurer/Secretary
on the Boards of Managers for two Long Term Acute Care Hospitals in Kentucky,
as well as each hospital’s Joint Venture Board.
From April 2004 to June 2006, he served in these positions for Oak Tree
Hospital at Baptist Regional Medical Center as well as the Corbin Long Term
Acute Care Venture, LLC. He was also
appointed to the same positions for Oak Tree Hospital at Baptist Northeast in
LaGrange, Kentucky, as well as serving on that hospital’s Northeast Joint
Venture, LLC Board of Managers from June 2006 to September 2009.
Mr. Murer has also served as Executive Vice
President of International Healthcare Recruiting, a venture with the University
of Utrecht, The Free University of Louvain and other Dutch, Belgian and Swiss
Universities in addressing international recruitment and placement of physical
therapists.
Mr. Murer, Cherilyn G. Murer, J.D., C.R.A.,
President, and Lyndean Lenhoff Brick, J.D., Senior Vice President of the Murer
Group, have co-authored three books published by McGraw Hill. The first book, published by McGraw Hill and
co-published by HFMA, entitled Post
Acute Care Reimbursement Manual-A Financial and Legal Guide, includes
quarterly updates for timely response to an ever changing market. The second book is entitled Compliance Audits and Plans for
Healthcare. The third book, Medical Records Management, is an
800 page complete guide to disclosure, retention and technology. A fourth book, which was published in April
of 2003 by Commerce Clearing House, Inc. (CCH), is entitled Understanding Provider-Based Status.
Mr. Murer has been a practicing attorney for
over thirty-two years and has held faculty appointments at both the graduate
and undergraduate levels at Lewis University, Lockport, Illinois and the
Graduate Program of St. Francis College in Health Administration. He was also
the 1982 Congressional candidate for the U.S. Congress from the 4th Illinois
District.
Michael Murer has written numerous articles
and white papers regarding the legal implications of Industrial Medicine
Programs and several articles detailing the complexity associated with networks
and alliances. Some of his articles
include: “Embracing System Integration”, Continuing Care Magazine, “Old
Reg’s Can Hamper New Health Care Entities”, Hospital Rehab Magazine, “Healthcare’s
Added Burden: The Legal System Integration in Healthcare Network and Alliances”,
Hospital Rehab Magazine, “Case Management Challenges in Integrated
Health Systems”, Continuing Care
and “A.G. (After Globalization)”
published in the San Francisco Business
Times. Additionally, Mr. Murer
served from 1990-1992 as editor of Year
Magazine, a newsmagazine examining the upcoming decade of change. One of Mr. Murer’s latest articles, “Compliance Guidance for Nursing Facility
Caregivers”, was published in the CCH
Healthcare Compliance Letter. In
addition, he recently became a member of the CCH Healthcare Compliance
Editorial Advisory Board.
Mr. Murer is a leading advocate of
e-commerce and technology. He was the
lead developer of ComplianceEdge, an
interactive internet compliance-training program for hospitals and health
systems; a product developed by Murer Consultants, Inc. for CCH, Inc. and Ernst
& Young. He also worked on an upper
management web based tool developed with AON Corporation.