Compensating Employed Physicians: Key Stark Law Considerations

HEALTHCARE May 16, 2018 60 minutes
01:00 PM EST 12:00 PM CST 11:00 AM MST 10:00 AM PST

Description:-

In this session Mr. Wolfe will provide an overview of the Stark Law, including its recent changes.

He will also discuss best practices for structuring, negotiating physician employment agreements.

The webinar will focus on regulatory requirements, key provisions, valuation considerations and potential pitfalls that should be avoided.

Areas covered in the Webinar:-

  • Provide a general Stark Law overview.
  • Examine critical components of Stark compliant employment arrangements
  • Discuss best practices for drafting employment agreements and the related financial terms
  • Describe best practices for auditing employment agreements
  • Review processes for documenting fair market value and commercial reasonableness
  • Discuss best practices for auditing existing arrangements and potential pitfalls

Why You Should Attend?

As health care organizations and physicians develop their employment arrangements, they must ensure the employment and compensation structures are defensible under the Stark Law.

In this webinar Mr. Wolfe will describe how to evaluate whether a proposed employment structure and financial terms will support compliance with Stark’s technical requirements and key tenets of defensibility to manage risk.

Background:-

Today the health care industry is seeing unprecedented levels of physician employment.

Health care organizations are allocating substantial time and resources toward developing compensation models that position their physicians for success.

Who will Benefit:-

  • In-House Counsel
  • Health Care Compliance Officers
  • Health Care Human Resources
  • Health Care CFOs
  • Health Care executives
Presenter BIO

Joseph Wolfe is a partner with Hall Render, the largest health care focused law firm in the country, now with offices nationwide. Hall Render attorneys provide advice and counsel to many of the nation's largest health systems, hospitals and medical groups on a broad range of regulatory, operational and strategic matters. Mr. Wolfe regularly counsels clients on a national basis regarding compliance-focused physician governance, alignment and compensation strategies.He is a frequent speaker and author on issues related to the physician self-referral statute (Stark Law), hospital-physician transactions, medical group structures, value-based payment strategies (MACRA, MIPS, APM, bundled payments, etc.), physician compensation and health care valuation issues. Before attending law school at the University of Wisconsin, he served as a combat engineer in the United States Army.

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