Structuring and Auditing Non-Physician Practitioner Arrangements Under the Anti-Kickback and Stark Laws
Product Id : HE36Instructor : Joseph Wolfe
Jun 05, 2018 2:00 PM ET | 01:00 PM CT | 11:00 AM PT | 60 Minutes
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Description
As health care organizations and physicians develop Non-Physician Practitioner arrangements, they must manage their compliance and enterprise risk by ensuring the their arrangements are defensible under the Anti-Kickback and Stark Laws.
Prior to moving forward with any NPP arrangements, the parties should carefully evaluate whether the proposed structure and financial terms support compliance with Stark’s technical requirements and key tenets of defensibility so they will be prepared to mount a defense in the event the lease is ever challenged.
This webinar will focus on the Stark Law's underlying technical requirements and key tenets of defensibility as they apply to NPP arrangements.
In this session Mr. Wolfe will provide an overview of the Stark Law, including its 2016 changes.He will also discuss best practices for negotiating and drafting NPP arrangements on behalf of health systems, hospitals, medical groups and physician practices.
The webinar will focus on regulatory requirements, key provisions, valuation considerations and potential pitfalls that should be avoided.
Areas Covered in the Webinar Session:
- Provide a general Stark Law overview
- Examine critical components of Stark compliant NPP arrangements
- Discuss best practices for NPP arrangements and the related financial terms
- Describe best practices for auditing these arrangements
- Review processes for documenting fair market value and commercial reasonableness
- Discuss best practices for auditing existing NPP arrangements and potential pitfalls
Who Will Benefit:
- In-House Counsel
- Health Care Compliance Officers
- Health Care Human Resources
- Health Care CFOs
- Health Care executives
Speaker Profile:
Joseph Wolfe is a partner with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath Lyman, P.C., the largest health care focused law firm in the country, now with offices nationwide. Hall Render's attorneys provide advice and counsel to many of the nation's largest health systems, hospitals and medical groups on a variety of health care issues. Mr. Wolfe regularly counsels clients on a national basis regarding compliance-focused physician compensation strategies. He is a frequent speaker on issues related to the physician self-referral statute (Stark Law), hospital-physician transactions, physician compensation and health care fair market value 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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