Melissa Soliz

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Healthcare

Arizona

1 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Melissa Soliz

USA

Practice Areas

- Administrative Law and Government Contracts

- Health Care Law

- Data Privacy & Security

Career

Melissa Soliz is a partner with Coppersmith Brockelman, PLC in Phoenix, Arizona. Her regulatory health law practice focuses on compliance with data privacy, access and interoperability laws (such as HIPAA, 42 C.F.R. Part 2, the ONC Information Blocking Rule, the CMS Interoperability mandates, and state laws), health information exchange (HIE) (including the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA)), behavioral health/substance use disorder law issues, data breaches and OCR investigations, as well as clinical research compliance and contracting. Melissa regularly speaks in local and national forums on these topics and has been active in state and federal policy making on data privacy and HIE issues. She is the President of the Arizona Society of Healthcare Attorneys and is recognized by Chambers, Best Lawyers© and Southwest Super Lawyers: Rising Stars© for her work in health law. She is a Phoenix Business Journal (PBJ), 40 under 40 recipient (Class of 2023) and 2023 Managed Healthcare Executive: Emerging Leader in Healthcare.

Publications

• Co-author, “The Missing Puzzle Piece: Using Health Data to Close the Social Determinants of Health Gap,” AHLA Journal of Health and Life Sciences Law (forthcoming Fall 2023)

• Author “Small Changes, Big Impact: ONC’s Proposed Changes to Advance Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability.” AHLA , Health Information and Technology Brief (June 2, 2023)

• Author, “Making Improvements?: ONC’s Proposed Enhancements to the Information Blocking Rule (HTI-1)” (May 1, 2023)

• Author, “Expanded CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Requirements: What Payers, Providers and their Technology Vendors Need to Know,” Coppersmith Briefs (February 7, 2023)

• Co-author, What’s the Big Deal?: Data Privacy Issues Involving “Big Data” and Genomics Deals, AHLA Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Institute and Physicians and Hospitals Institute Conference (Jan. 30-31, 2023)

• Co-author, “TEFCA: How It Works in Tandem With Your HIE,” Contexture (January 26, 2023)

• Co-author, “Has the Eagle Landed?: HHS’ Proposed Changes to 42 CFR Part 2 to Align Substance Use Disorder Privacy Protections with HIPAA,” Coppersmith Briefs (December 28, 2022)

• Co-author, “TEFCA: Has the Future for Nationwide Data Exchange Arrived?,” AHLA, Health Information and Technology Practice Group, Member Briefing (May 6, 2022)

• Co-author, “Perceptions and Concerns of SUD Treatment Organizations Regarding the CARES Act’s Alterations to Patient Confidentiality Regulations,” AHIMA Journal: Perspectives in Health Information Management (vol. 19, issue 2, May 2022)

• Author, “What You Need Know about TEFCA: The Common Agreement,” Coppersmith Briefs (February 2, 2022)

• Co-author, “If You Build It, They Will Come: Implementing the CMS Patient Access API and Payer-to-Payer Exchange Requirements,” AHLA Journal of Health and Life Sciences Law (December 2021)

• Co-Author, “Legal Corner: At the Click of a Button,” Arizona Physician (November 15, 2021)

• Contributor, Year in Review Developments, AHLA, Physicians and Hospital Institute Feb. 2022; Physicians and Hospital Law Institute Feb. 2021; Annual Meeting June 2021

• Co-author, “Ready? Set. Go! IBR Compliance Is Here,” AHLA (April 30, 2021)

• Co-author, “Mother, MUST I?: Compliance with the Information Blocking Regulations Presentation White Paper,” AHLA Virtual Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute (February 10-12, 2021)

• Co-author, “Proposed Changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – An Operational Perspective,” Coppersmith Briefs (January 25, 2021)

• Co-author, Coppersmith Brockelman Information Blocking Toolkit for Health Care Providers (December 2020)

• Author, “CMS Proposed Expansion of Interoperability Requirements for Impacted Payers,” Coppersmith Briefs (December 14, 2020)

• Co-author, “Just in Time Delay: ONC Extends Information Blocking Compliance Deadline to April 5, 2021,” Coppersmith Briefs (October 29, 2020)

• Author, “Regulatory Changes to Substance Use Disorder Privacy Law,” Coppersmith Briefs (July 17, 2020)

• Author, “OIG Penalties for Information Blocking,” Coppersmith Briefs (Apr. 27, 2020)

• Co-author, “COVID-19 TCPA Emergency Exception for Robocalls and Texts from Health Care Providers and Government Officials,” Coppersmith Briefs (Apr. 16, 2020)

• Co-author, “OCR Waives HIPAA BAA Requirements to Participate in Public Health and Health Oversight Activities,” Coppersmith Briefs (Apr. 2, 2020)

• Co-author, “Communicating with First Responders about Patient COVID-19 Status,” Coppersmith Briefs (Mar. 31, 2020)

• Co-author, “Communicating with Health Care Employees about Patient COVID-19 Status,” Coppersmith Briefs (Mar. 30, 2020)

• Co-author, “The CARES Act: Sweeping Changes to Substance Use Disorder Privacy Law (42 USC 290dd-2),” Coppersmith Briefs (Mar. 30, 2020)

• Co-author, “Data Sharing in Genomics and Big Data Deals,” AHLA Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Institute Conference (Jan. 30-31, 2020)

• Co-author, “Arizona Chapter, AHLA Corporate Practice of Medicine,” AHLA (Jan. 2020)

• Author, “Don’t Let Privacy Protections Be The Enemy Of Good: How privacy laws are stymieing efforts to most effectively treat substance use disorders and combat the opioid epidemic,” Journal of Health Care Compliance (Nov. 2019)

• Co-author, “Arizona – Response to Opioid Crisis and Opioid Prescribing Requirements,” American Health Lawyers Association (Nov. 2019)

• Co-author, “Data Sharing Through the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network,” PCORnet (forthcoming)

• Co-author, “Sentinel System: Data Sharing for Public Health Activities and Data Use Agreements,” Sentinel

• Author, “Courtesy Notification re: Proposed Changes to 42 CFR Part 2,” Coppersmith Brockelman PLC (Aug. 23, 2019)

• Author, “Courtesy Notification re: TEFCA Draft 2,” Coppersmith Brockelman PLC (May 21, 2019)

• Author, “Courtesy Notification re: ONC/CMS Proposed Interoperability Regulations,” Coppersmith Brockelman PLC (Apr. 24, 2019)

• Co-author, “ONC/CMS Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rules on Interoperability and Information Blocking,” American Health Lawyers Association (May 20, 2019)

• Co-author, “Arizona Opioid Compliance Toolkit for Outpatient Clinics,” Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (July 2018)

• Co-author, “Arizona Opioid Compliance Toolkit for Hospitals and Outpatient Surgery Centers,” Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (July 2018)

• Co-author, “Data Sharing for Clinical Integration and other ‘Big Data’ Initiatives,” AHLA Fundamentals of Health Law, seventh edition (Apr. 2018)

• Co-author, “Sentinel Initiative Principles and Policies: HIPAA and Common Rule Compliance,” Sentinel (Feb. 1, 2018)

• Co-author (with Kristen Rosati), “Privacy Compliance in Clinical Research,” Bloomberg Law (Oct. 2017)

• Co-author, “White Paper: Part 2 Challenges for HIOs,” presented at SHIEC Annual Conference (2017)

• Co-author, “Unto the Breach, Dear Friends: HIPAA Breach Reporting and OCR Enforcement Actions,” Bloomberg BNA Health Care Program Compliance Guide

• Co-author, “Data Sharing for Clinical Integration and other ‘Big Data’ Initiatives,” AHLA Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions (Mar. 2017)

• Co-author, “Office for Civil Rights Investigations, Enforcement Actions and Settlements,” AHLA Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions (Mar. 2017)

• Author, “Fixing Fixation: The RAM Copy Doctrine,” 43 Ariz. St. L.J. 181 (2011)