 | William O. Quirey, Jr.Senior CounselDirect Dial: 804.521.7217 |
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Bill assists the Administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in assessing and reviewing claims from Gulf Coast residents asserting financial loss caused by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. He plans and carries out training of claims evaluators in Richmond and in Gulf Coast Site Offices. He supervises teams of support staff in reviewing and analyzing data from settlement agreement claims. He also supervises the Facility’s Call Center staff, which at its peak in July 2011 involved more than 250 employees. He also advises a pharmaceutical company involved in a class action settlement on Medicare reimbursement and reporting obligations under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act and the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007. His experience includes assisting in claims administration in a second multi-billion dollar Class Action Settlement by reviewing and analyzing settlement claims for qualifying medical and legal criteria and preparing and analyzing statistical studies of class members and settlement claims. Prior to joining BrownGreer, Bill represented healthcare providers, with experience as both corporate and outside counsel. He focused on clinically-related regulatory compliance matters such as privacy regulations promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the requirements imposed on hospitals and physicians by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). Before attending law school, Bill worked for several years in critical care nursing. He has frequently spoken, and has written articles, on a wide variety of health law and risk management topics. Bill is one of Virginia's leading experts on HIPAA Privacy Regulations. He has worked actively in past years as a member of the Virginia Bar Association's HIPAA Legislative Task Force to draft and recommend statutory amendments designed to make compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Regulations easier for Virginia healthcare providers and health plans. Bill is frequently called upon by the Virginia General Assembly and by other attorneys to explain the HIPAA Privacy Regulations and their interaction with Virginia law. Bill is a member of the Virginia Bar Association and the American Health Lawyers Association. Bill joined BrownGreer in March of 2004. | |
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