Emily H. Wein is of counsel and a health care lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, and member of the firm’s national Telemedicine & Digital Health Industry Team. Emily understands and identifies with the business and strategic goals of virtual care and digital health companies. She delivers practical legal guidance molded to accomplish each individual client’s unique operational goals. Emily works with a diverse bench of organizations – including large interdisciplinary hospital systems, skilled nursing facilities, multi-state clinical practices, and fast-moving entrepreneurs. Emily’s energy and enthusiasm mirrors that of her health innovation clients where she consistently drives to improve some of the most important and unmet health needs in the industry today, particularly women’s health, substance use disorder, mental health, and preventative wellness.
Emily wields notable depth on advising telemedicine and digital health clients on the highly technical, traditional healthcare regulatory issues of Medicare and Medicaid enrollment, billing and coding, interjurisdictional claims submission and reassignment, compliance with Conditions of Participation, and medical staff credentialing and privileging.
Real-World Industry Knowledge
Having earned both a law degree and an MBA, Emily understands the importance of practical business perspectives while maintaining that sense of urgency essential to the success of any innovative health technology offering. Whether an emerging start-up entrepreneur with a novel or breakthrough idea or an established health system with many constituents to align, Emily works efficiently and effectively to meet the distinctive requirements of each organization. Additionally, she spent five years as in-house counsel at a nationally-known academic medical center health system, where she led the development of its virtual care service programs, including tele-stroke and tele-cardiology, and had primary legal responsibility for fraud and abuse compliance of all Medicare enrollment and physician-hospital contracting arrangements.
Thought Leadership
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Original member of the Clear Health Quality Institute’s Telehealth Accreditation Standards Committee, where she helped develop the standards and requirements for telehealth companies seeking CHQI accreditation.
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Helped create the Maryland Telehealth Alliance; a mission-driven organization to advance telehealth law in the State of Maryland. She serves as its Chief Legal Officer.
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Serves on the Advisory Board of Nest Collaborative, a telehealth provider specializing in women’s and pediatric services.
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Co-authored The Telehealth Law Handbook: A Practical Guide to Virtual Care.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Emily H. Wein
- 2021 Medicare Remote Patient Monitoring FAQs: CMS Issues Final Rule - (Posted On Monday, December 07, 2020)
- Top Five New Telehealth Policies in Medicare 2021 in Physician Fee Schedule - (Posted On Wednesday, December 02, 2020)
- American Telemedicine Association Responds to Medicare Telehealth 2021 Proposed Rule - (Posted On Thursday, September 24, 2020)
- Telehealth and Substance Use Disorder Treatment: State Law Issues - (Posted On Thursday, August 06, 2020)
- Top Ten Medicare Remote Patient Monitoring FAQs for 2021 - (Posted On Wednesday, August 05, 2020)
- Telehealth: CMS Proposes New Medicare Changes for 2021 - (Posted On Tuesday, August 04, 2020)
- Telehealth and Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Regulatory Barriers to Entry Can Mean Opportunity for Innovative Companies - (Posted On Monday, August 03, 2020)
- Patient Records: Part 2 Final Rule Reduces Substance Use Disorder Record Sharing Barriers - (Posted On Wednesday, July 15, 2020)
- COVID-19: CMS Issues Second Round of Groundbreaking Changes for Telehealth - What You Need to Know - (Posted On Sunday, May 03, 2020)
- COVID-19: DEA and SAMHSA Guidance for Treating Opioid Use Disorders via Telehealth - (Posted On Friday, April 10, 2020)