Ensuring compensation-focused compliance with Stark Law considerations

[Roger Steven]

Stark Law compliance is now more than just a compliance issue. It has grown to become an Enterprise Risk Management matter, if the substantial awards and settlements in recent enforcement actions are anything to go by. For healthcare organizations that develop and implement provider contracts; managing their compliance and enterprise risk by ensuring that their physician employment arrangements are defensible under the Stark Law, both in substance and in technical detail. is now not a choice. It is an imperative.

How do healthcare organizations achieve all this? This is the teaching a webinar from MentorHealth, a leading provider of professional trainings for the healthcare industry, will impart.

A thorough learning session

Joseph Wolfe, an attorney with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C., the largest health care focused law firm in the country, will be the speaker at this webinar. To gain the benefit of his knowledge of the Stark Law, please register for this webinar .This webinar is approved for 1 general credit from the Nevada Board of Continuing Legal Education.    

Compensation-focused Compliance

At this webinar, Joseph, who provides advice and counsel to some of the nation's largest health systems, hospitals and medical groups on a variety of health care issues and regularly counsels clients on a national basis regarding compliance-focused physician compensation and alignment strategies, will discuss strategies for ensuring physician compensation plans and compensation-focused governance processes support compliance.

Key healthcare personnel such as Physicians and Practice Managers, Governing Board Members, Trustees and Directors, Healthcare Executives, In-House Counsel, Healthcare Human Resources, Healthcare CFO's, and healthcare Compliance Officers will derive deep and valuable learning from this session.

Joseph will cover the following areas at this webinar session:

• Provide a general overview of the Stark Law
• Explain the requirements for compliance with key regulatory exceptions
• Discuss best practices for documenting compliance with three key tenets of defensibility (e.g.. fair market value, commercial reasonableness, and not taking into account designated health service referrals, etc.).