Structuring and Auditing Physician Employment Agreements: Key Stark Law Considerations

Why Should You Attend:

As health care organizations and physicians develop employment arrangements, they must manage their compliance and enterprise risk by ensuring the employment is defensible under the Stark Law.

Prior to moving forward with any employment arrangement, 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 arrangement is ever challenged.

In recent years, the health care industry has seen unprecedented levels of physician employment. Structuring employment arrangements appropriately and periodically auditing implementation are critical in today’s challenging enforcement climate.

This webinar will focus on the Stark Law's underlying technical requirements and key tenets of defensibility as they apply to physician employment arrangements. It will cover 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

Who Will Benefit:

• Health Care Compliance Officers
• Governing Board Members, Trustees and Directors
• Health Care Executives
• In-House Counsel
• Health Care Human Resources
• Health Care CFOs

Joseph Wolfe
Health Care Attorney, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman, P.C.

Joseph Wolfe is an attorney with Hall Render, the largest health care focused law firm in the country. Mr. Wolfe provides advice and counsel to some of the largest health systems, hospitals and medical groups on a variety of health care issues. He regularly counsels clients on a national basis regarding compliance-focused physician compensation and alignment strategies.

Mr. Wolfe 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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