This webinar will include a “Contracting Toolkit” of best practices that healthcare organizations can follow to avoid compliance traps. The session will also recap trends in government and whistleblower enforcement.
There have been a number of recent enforcement actions, several with damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Because of the significant exposure, healthcare organizations need to understand the requirements and emerging best practices to manage their compliance and enterprise risk.
Any time a healthcare organization enters into a financial arrangement with a physician, the arrangement must comply with the federal laws that are unique to the healthcare industry (e.g., the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, False Claims Act, etc.).
Compliance in this area is critical, especially with employment, medical directors, call coverage or other service contracts, recruitment agreements, individual and group compensation plans, leases for space or equipment, and virtually any other type of arrangement.
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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