Structuring and Implementing Hospital-Physician Medical Director and Administrative Arrangements: Key Legal Considerations for Health Systems, Hospitals and Medical Groups - Part I

Why Should You Attend:

Health care organizations should be monitoring and auditing their existing medical director and administrative arrangements to ensure they are compliant with Stark’s technical requirements and key tenets of defensibility (e.g., fair market value, commercial reasonableness, and not taking into account designated health service referrals) in case they are ever challenged.

This session will provide an overview of the Anti-Kickback and Stark Law, including its 2016 changes. It will also discuss best practices for negotiating and drafting medical director arrangements on behalf of health systems, hospitals and medical groups. The webinar will focus on key provisions that should be included and potential pitfalls that should be avoided.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Provide a general Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute overview
• Examine critical components of Stark and Anti-Kickback compliant medical director arrangements
• Discuss best practices for drafting medical director agreements and the related compensation plans
• Review processes for documenting medical director duties and service hours
• Review processes for documenting fair market value and commercial reasonableness
• Discuss best practices for auditing existing medical director arrangements and potential pitfalls

Who Will Benefit:

• In-House Counsel
• Health Care Compliance Officers
• Health Care Human Resources
• Health Care CFOs
• Health Care Executives

Instructor 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. They 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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