Carol Scott

Carol Scott's practice involves regulatory compliance for a broad range of health care providers, including long-term care facilities, behavioral health facilities, and other health care-related entities and individuals.  Ms. Scott regularly advises  for-profit and non-profit health care organizations and practitioners on certification and licensing issues, as well as on implementation of compliance plans regarding HIPAA, reimbursement, fraud, abuse, and all aspects of their operations.

 

Ms. Scott has over three decades of experience in health care law.  She has served as counsel for subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a health policy specialist with the Federal Trade Commission.  She has lectured and written numerous articles on such topics as ethical issues in managed care, fraud and abuse, licensing, ombudsman programs, health care information, and privacy and confidentiality issues. She is the co-author of a book chapter on health information networks and the electronic exchange of health care information.

 

Among other matters, Ms. Scott has served as an advisor to the Health Data Information Corporation, the Los Angeles County Health Care Crisis Task Force, and the County of San Luis Obispo. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, a nonprofit multi-disciplinary collaborative of USC Law School and USC Medical School; and of the Ethics Resource Committee of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Ms. Scott has served as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Pacific Institute for Women's Health; and was a founding member of the California Breast Cancer Treatment Fund Advisory Committee, which oversaw a $15 million statewide fund for the treatment of indigent cancer victims. She has also been a board member of the Women's Information Network Against Breast Cancer. She served two terms on the California Fair Political Practices Commission.

 

Ms. Scott has taught health care law at Arizona State University School of Health Management and Policy; the University of Southern California Law School; and California State University, Los Angeles.

 

She received her undergraduate degree in history, summa cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1971, and her law degree from UCLA Law School in 1974. She also obtained a master's degree in health care administration from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1979.