Traci primarily focuses her practice on counseling individual practitioners, owners, administrators, executives, directors, and employees of health care practices and health care-related facilities, including physicians, licensed medical personnel, hospitals, and clinics. She has experience negotiating complex collective bargaining agreements and effects bargaining agreements; advising on HIPAA, EMTALA, conditions of participation, OSHA, Family Healthcare Decisions Act, and consent issues; and overseeing and managing claims and lawsuits. Traci has developed and overseen hospital policies to implement new laws relating to the care and treatment of psychiatric patients, MOLST, HIPAA, and the Safe Act. She represents hospital clients in employment arbitrations and mental hygiene hearings and provides guidance to administration on fraud and abuse laws.
Traci assists health care clients with drafting and negotiating complex contracts and agreements; reviewing liability insurance portfolios; navigating wage-and-hour laws, the Family Medical Leave Act, disability issues, and personnel matters; human resources investigatory processes; HIPAA compliance, compliance programs, audits, investigations and self-disclosures, and licensure issues, EMTALA and transfer questions, and physician and patient relations.
Traci also assists with creating and revising corporate documents and provides guidance on merger documents and transition plans to health care systems and boards of directors.
Traci has previously served as an adjunct professor for Albany Law School’s Online Graduate Program, teaching The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).