Tara R Sklar
- Associate Scholar, Law
- Director, Health Law and Policy Program
- Senior Advisor, Telehealth Law and Policy
- (520) 621-1373
- College of Law Building, Rm. 201
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- trsklar@arizona.edu
Biography
Tara Sklar is the Faculty Director of the Health Law & Policy Program and a Distinguished Public Service Scholar at Arizona Law. She also holds appointments as Associate Director of Telehealth Law & Policy at the Arizona Telemedicine Program, College of Medicine-Tucson, and as a Senior Advisor with Innovations in Healthy Aging at the University of Arizona Health Sciences. She currently serves as a subject matter expert on telehealth legal issues with the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center and with the Health Resources and Services Administration in the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth. Sklar’s teaching and research examine legal, regulatory, and ethical issues that arise in adapting to a diverse aging population, with a particular focus on digital health equity. She teaches courses on Telehealth Law & Policy and Aging Law & Policy at the University of Arizona.
Awards
- Distinguished Public Service Scholar
- University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Spring 2023
- Rising Star in Legal Academia
- Clifford Symposium in Tort Law and Social Policy, Spring 2019
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
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Law and the Elderly
LAW 484D (Fall 2024) -
Law and the Elderly
LAW 584D (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Substantial Paper
LAW 692 (Summer I 2024) -
Telehealth Law & Policy
LAW 580D (Summer I 2024) -
Independent Study
LAW 699 (Spring 2024) -
Independent Study
LAW 699 (Fall 2023) -
Law and the Elderly
LAW 484D (Fall 2023) -
Law and the Elderly
LAW 584D (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Telehealth Law & Policy
LAW 580D (Summer I 2023) -
Independent Study
LAW 699 (Spring 2023) -
Independent Study
LAW 699 (Fall 2022) -
Law and the Elderly
LAW 484D (Fall 2022) -
Law and the Elderly
LAW 584D (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Honors Thesis
HNRS 498H (Spring 2022) -
Honors Thesis
HNRS 498H (Fall 2021) -
Independent Study
LAW 699 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Independent Study
LAW 699 (Summer I 2021) -
Independent Study
LAW 699 (Spring 2021)
2019-20 Courses
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Independent Study
LAW 699 (Spring 2020)
Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Sklar, T. R. (2023). Health Law: Equity is Inextricably Linked to Health Care. In The Jurisprudential Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. NYU Press.
- Sklar, T. R. (2021). Workforce Development for an Aging Population. In Healthy Aging Through the Social Determinants of Health. American Public Health Association Press.
Journals/Publications
- Bathija, P., Krupinski, E. A., Rodriguez, J. A., & Sklar, T. (2023). Achieving Digital Health Equity by Personalizing the Patient Experience. Telemedicine Reports, 4(1), 166-173. doi:10.1089/tmr.2023.0018
- Sklar, T. R. (2021). The Return of Typhoid Mary? Immigrant Workers in Nursing Home. Journal of Elder Policy.
- Bismark, M., Moore, J. S., Sklar, T., & Taouk, Y. (2020).
Vulnerability to legal misconduct: a profile of problem lawyers in Victoria, Australia
. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 27(3), 269-289. doi:10.1080/09695958.2020.1751166 - Robertson, C. T., & Sklar, T. (2020).
Telehealth for an Aging Population: How Can Law Influence Adoption Among Providers, Payors, and Patients?
. American journal of law & medicine, 46(2-3), 311-324. doi:10.1177/0098858820933501More infoTelehealth continues to experience substantial investment, innovation, and unprecedented growth. However, telehealth has been slow to transform healthcare. Recent developments in telehealth technologies suggest great potential for chronic care management, mental health services, and care delivery in the home-all of which should be particularly impactful for an aging population with physical and cognitive limitations. While this alignment of technological capacity and market demand is promising, legal barriers remain for telehealth operators to scale up across large geographic areas. To better understand how federal and state law can be reformed to enable greater telehealth utilization, we review and extract lessons from (1) establishment of a healthcare relationship, (2) state licensure laws, and (3) reimbursement. We analyze these areas because of the legal ambiguities or inconsistencies they raise depending on the state, which seem to be hampering telehealth growth without necessarily improving quality of care. We propose several solutions for a more unified approach to telehealth regulation that incorporate core bioethics principles of doctor-patient relationship, competence, patient autonomy, as well as population-wide questions of resource allocation and access. Lawmakers should clarify that healthcare relationships may be established outside of in-person meetings, align licensure laws via an interstate compact or federal preemption, and expand Centers for Medicare and Medicaid plans to reimburse telehealth delivery in the home. - Robertson, C., & Sklar, T. (2019).
Affordability Boards — The States’ New Fix for Drug Pricing
. New England Journal of Medicine, 381(14), 1301-1303. doi:10.1056/nejmp1906010