Practice Areas

• Clinical Services & Patient Care Issues
• Credentialing & Peer Review
• Government Investigations
• Hospital & Health System Counsel
• Licensing & Accreditation
• Long-Term Care and Post-Acute
• Medical Staff Organization & Structure

Biography

Ms. Napiewocki counsels clients in numerous aspects of health care law. Her work involves day-to-day counsel and representation regarding corporate counsel matters, employment law, CMS and Joint Commission matters, hospice, hospital IRB matters, medical staff and peer review, contracting matters, regulatory compliance, long-term care and graduate medical education. She has been a speaker and author in matters such as peer review, the ADA and FMLA, discipline and discharge, security force matters, medical records, advance directives, record retention and confidentiality. Before joining Hall Render, Ms. Napiewocki served as corporate counsel for Henry Ford Health System and in private practice. She currently serves as the Board Chair and Scholar in Residence for the Center for Law, Ethics and Health, University of Michigan and as the Chair-Elect and council member of the Health Care Law Section of the Michigan State Bar.  She is also a member of the Program Council for the Michigan Healthcare Executive Group Association.

Preparatory Education

• University of Michigan, B.A. - 1986
• University of Michigan, M.H.S.A. - 1988

Legal Education

• University of Detroit-Mercy, J.D. - 1995

Admitted to Bar

• Michigan - 1995

Memberships

• State Bar of Michigan
• American Health Lawyers Association
• American College of Healthcare Executives
• Michigan Healthcare Executive Group Association

Experience

• Administrative Resident, Geisinger Medical Center - 1988-1989
• Researcher, Henry Ford Health System - 1989-1995
• Associate, Bodman Longley Dahling - 1995-1997
• In-house Counsel, Henry Ford Health System - 1997-2002

Publications

• PD Jacobson, LM Napiewocki, and LA Voigt, Regulating the U.S. Health Care System: Failure in Motion, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2011; 36:583-589
• Schultz, Donald V., Napiewocki, Laura M., and Nerenz, David R., Measuring Physician Integration in Health Care Systems, Hospital Research and Educational Trust, American Hospital Association, 1994
• Richard L. Cohen, Editor, Triaging Calls Improves Efficiency of Service, Physician Referral Update. Vol. 5, No. 5 (May 1992, pp. 4-5.  Discussion with R. Cohen regarding On-Call Nurse Program)
• Nerenz, D.R., Zajac, B.M., Miron (Napiewocki) L.L., Romans, J., and Simmer, T.L., Inpatient Firms in a Teaching Hospital: The Henry Ford Experience, 29 Medical Care, JS31-JS40 (1991)
• Ron Winslow (reporter, column: Health Costs: Conference Notebook), Wall Street Journal, Monday, July 8, 1991.  Discussion of On-Call Nurse program presented to AHSR (June/July 1991)