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 Knack, Mary Re
Practice Areas: Health Care Experience:Re Knack is a Member in the Seattle office where her practice includes health care, insurance, product liability, mass tort, and civil matters. Ms. Knack provides a wide range of legal services to members of the health care industry including negotiating and structuring arrangements, business, regulatory, and privacy-related compliance services, licensing and risk management related services, and related investigations. Ms. Knack’s practice includes legal advice and litigation relating to insurance coverage and bad faith for policyholders and the insurance industry including property and casualty, life, health and disability. Ms. Knack also provides guidance and advice to the insurance industry and self-insureds with respect to their obligations under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act and Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act (MMSEA). Ms. Knack received her JD with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1993 and her BA from Smith College in 1988. Affiliations:Ms. Knack is a member of the Defense Research Institute's Law Institute, Medical Liability Committee, Drug and Medical Device Committee, Insurance Law Committee and Product Liability Committee and holds a number of leadership positions within each. She is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys, and the Washington Health Care Risk Management Society. Recent Seminars and Publications: Presenter, Untangling Medicare's Subrogation Right, WDTL Annual Convention, Suncadia, WA, July 2010. Presenter, Handling the Case Involving the Medicare Beneficiary: Nuts and Bolts, Resolving the Case, Negotiations and Settlement Documents, Kansas Health Care Stabilization Fund, Overland Park, KS, May 2010. Presenter, Handling the Case Involving the Medicare Beneficiary: Resolving The Case, Negotiations, and Settlement Documents, Utah Association of Defense Counsel and Utah Association for Justice Combined Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, April 2010. Presenter, Medicare Secondary Payer & Case Settlement Considerations: What the Defense Lawyer Needs to Know, DRI Mid-Region Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 2010. Presenter, What is All This Talk About the Medicare Secondary Payer Act and Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act?, Kansas Association of Defense Counsel 31st Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, December 4, 2009. Presenter and Author, Current Issue in Compliance: Stark III and Beyond, Portland, OR, May 2009. Co-Author, Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Coming Soon to Washington: Are You Ready to Handle Medical Record Request Audits?, Washington Healthcare News, January 2009. |
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