Webinar On "Health Care Contracting Toolkit: Best Practices & Three Key Tenets of Defensibility"

This webinar will include a “Contracting Toolkit” of best practices that health care organizations can follow to avoid compliance traps related to the technical requirements for payments to physicians and the Three Key Tenets of Defensibility: fair market value, commercial reasonableness, and not taking into account volume or value of referrals. The session will also recap trends in government and whistleblower enforcement.

• Summarize the enforcement trends and the “Three Key Tenets of Defensibility.”
• Provide a focused review of the technical requirements of the health care laws.
• Describe emerging physician contracting compliance traps.
• Discuss the “Provider Contracting Toolkit” and best practices for enhancing defensibility.

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

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.