Past event: Virtual Seminar on Designing Stark Compliant Physician Compensation Models
6-Hour Virtual Seminar
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This page shows historical information on the Virtual Seminar on Designing Stark Compliant Physician Compensation Models, held on December 20, 2021 in Online Event,
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The new edition of this event will be held on February 24, 2021
In this program, we will review the physician anti-referral laws (Stark I
and II), provide an in-depth discussion of physician employment
contracting, review the relevant Stark exceptions and discuss how
physician compensation models can be in compliance with the Stark
prohibitions.
Why you should attend
This session is designed
for health care executives, physicians and other health care providers
who participate in and receive remuneration from Medicare, Medicaid, and
other federal health care programs such as TriCare. Several recent
cases bring home the realization that Stark II (the physician
anti-referral law) is alive, still with us and as viable as ever, and it
can be used as the basis of a False Claims Act action.
As a
health care executive, physician or other health care provider, you
should be very concerned about the potential for Stark II, as well as
the Anti-Kickback Statute, being used as the basis for an action brought
under the Federal False Claims Act. In this webinar, you will learn
about the elements of the Stark II law, along with the various
exceptions and safe harbors that you can rely on for protection against
enforcement under this law.
This is important because under
recently enacted health care laws, enforcement and health care fraud
task forces have been greatly enhanced. Recovery under the Federal
False Claims Act last year resulted in over $4.9 billion being recovered
for the federal government, $24.2 billion since the law was revised to
make it more relator friendly in 1986.
Since 1986, whistleblowers
have been awarded nearly $4 billion. Whistleblowers are where a
majority of the Federal False Claims Act suits originate. Two cases
involving Stark, the Toumey Health System case in South Carolina, with a
settlement in excess of $72 million (after a verdict of $237.5 million)
and the Hardeman Memorial Hospital case in Texas, with a settlement of
$398, 230.56.
In the Toumey case, the CEO agreed to pay $ 1
million and be excluded from federal programs for four years. In
Hardeman, the Texas federal court sentenced former CEO Angela Edwards to
2 ½ years in prison and ordered her to pay $370,657 in restitution. If
that is not enough to get your attention, consider the recent cases
finding that the "responsible corporate officer doctrine" allows the
government to hold hospital CEOs and others directly responsible for the
fraud. You will want to attend this webinar to learn how to protect yourself and your organization.
Who Will Benefit
Hospital executives, particularly CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CNOs, and CMOs
Physicians
Physician practice managers
Other healthcare provider executives
Attorneys representing hospital, physician and other healthcare providers
William Mack Copeland MS, JD,
PhD, LFACHE, practices health care law in Cincinnati at the firm of
Copeland Law, LLC. He is also president of Executive & Managerial
Development Group, a consulting entity providing compliance and other
fraud and abuse related services. A graduate of Northern Kentucky
University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Bill is a frequent author and
speaker on health law topics.
Copeland is a member of the
American Health Lawyers Association, American, Ohio and Cincinnati Bar
Associations and is a life fellow in the American College of Healthcare
Executives. He was awarded the American College of Health Care
Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent's Award in 2007.
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08:00 AM PST | 11:00 AM EST
A discussion of the self-referral law (Stark), what it is, what it prohibits, how it is structured, etc
A general discussion of physician employment and compensation agreements
A discussion to the Stark exceptions
A discussion of structuring contracts to meet the Stark exceptions
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