Richard Koo, Esq.
Presented on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 – 5:00 PM MST
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Download: HHSProposedRegulations.pdf
US Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a new rule entitled: “Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority.” HHS states that the new rule will: “ensure that persons or entities are not subjected to certain practices or policies that violate conscience, coerce, or discriminate, in violation of such Federal laws. Through this rulemaking, the Department proposes to grant overall responsibility to its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for ensuring that the Department, its components, HHS programs and activities, and those who participate in HHS programs or activities comply with Federal laws protecting the rights of conscience and prohibiting associated discriminatory policies and practices in such programs and activities.”
Richard Koo, Esq. will look at the bioethical issues that may be a consequence of such a rule.
Richard Koo is a business/transactional lawyer who also serves as an adjunct professor at The Bioethics Program, a graduate level program offered jointly by Clarkson University and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, and on two institutional ethics committees. He is an alumnus of Columbia College, Columbia Law School and the Bioethics Program.