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Attorney teaches Behavioral Health Law course at OCU

Attorney Mary Holloway Richard is teaching Behavioral Health Law at the Oklahoma City University School of Law this Spring semester.

The course will cover a broad spectrum of behavior health topics including: basic mental illness diagnoses, licensure laws related to behavioral health providers of all types, reimbursement and financing issues, liability concepts related to the dangerous patient, consent and release of information, social and community responses to mental illness and substance abuse disorders and current policy and regulatory developments in the field, Richard said.

In conjunction with the American Health Lawyers Association’s Behavioral Health Task Force of which she is Vice Chair, Richard plans to bring in speakers from across the state and give the class better exposure to the subject matter, to the larger context of the healthcare industry and to people who work in the field, she said.

This class follows Richard’s Fall course which was a survey and introductory course to Health Law.

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Mary Richard appointed vice chair of AHLA Behavioral Health Task Force

Mary Holloway Richard, Of Counsel to Phillips Murrah’s Healthcare Practice Group, has been appointed Vice Chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Behavioral Health Task Force.

AHLA-logo-bigRichard was formerly a co-chair of the Providers and Clinicians Committee of the Behavioral Health Task Force.

She has represented both institutional and non-institutional providers of health services, as well as patients and their families.  Her career has included work at hospitals, outpatient clinics, behavioral health facilities and rehabilitation facilities and clinics.

Richard will be participating in a panel discussion entitled “Hot Topics in Behavioral Health” at the AHLA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. in June, 2015.

The Behavior Health Task Force was established by the nationwide professional organization to provide education for attorneys about the legal issues that arise in the provision of services to behavioral health patients and to alcohol and drug treatment providers and patients.

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