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Executive Vice President and General Counsel 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 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. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, please click here
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