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Hospitals <strong>and</strong> Health Systems <strong>Law</strong> <strong>Institute</strong><br />
Tuesday, February 12, 2013<br />
7:00 am-5:15 pm<br />
Registration <strong>and</strong> Information<br />
7:00-8:00 am<br />
Continental Breakfast, sponsored by HORNE LLP<br />
(attendees, faculty <strong>and</strong> registered spouses <strong>and</strong> guests welcome)<br />
GENERAL SESSION<br />
8:00-8:15 am<br />
Welcome <strong>and</strong> Introduction<br />
Kristen B. Rosati, AHLA President-Elect<br />
Lisa J. Gilden, Hospitals Program Co-Chair<br />
8:15-9:45 am<br />
Top Legal Developments for Hospitals <strong>and</strong> <strong><strong>Physician</strong>s</strong><br />
Elizabeth B. Carder-Thompson<br />
Jack S. Schroder, Jr.<br />
CONCURRENT SESSIONS<br />
10:15-11:15 am<br />
A. Why Quality of Care Should Matter to You: FCA<br />
Enforcement in 2013 <strong>and</strong> Beyond<br />
George B. Breen<br />
Kevin A. Cornish<br />
Jeffrey Dickstein<br />
j The government’s theory of FCA liability in “quality of care”<br />
<strong>and</strong> “worthless services” cases against hospitals <strong>and</strong> against<br />
individual physicians<br />
j Challenging the government’s effort to utilize the False<br />
Claims Act as a mechanism to enforce quality st<strong>and</strong>ards<br />
j What providers <strong>and</strong> hospitals can do proactively, to try to<br />
stave off this enforcement effort <strong>and</strong> how compliance programs<br />
should be adapted to address this risk area<br />
B. Complex Fair Market Value/ Commercial Reasonableness<br />
Compensation Issues<br />
Robert A. Wade<br />
j Compensation stacking<br />
j How to apply benchmark data<br />
j When is it safe to exceed the benchmark data range?<br />
j Call compensation issues<br />
j How to apply commercial reasonableness to compensation<br />
arrangements – including shifting of business risk<br />
j Productivity compensation issues<br />
j Mid-level provider supervision compensation<br />
j Stipends for hospital-based services (ER, Anesthesiology,<br />
Hospitalist, Radiology)<br />
j Real estate – what is a defensible market assessment <strong>and</strong><br />
how to apply<br />
j Time share leasing arrangements – how to develop <strong>and</strong><br />
manage compliant arrangements<br />
Program Agenda<br />
C. You Say Tomato: Employer <strong>and</strong> Employee Perspectives<br />
on the <strong>Physician</strong> Employment Contract<br />
Philip M. Bluestein<br />
Martha S. Henley<br />
j Generic/st<strong>and</strong>ard physician employment contract<br />
j Contentious issues from the employer’s <strong>and</strong> employee’s<br />
counsels perspective<br />
j Non-competition <strong>and</strong> non-solicitation provisions<br />
j Medical records – ownership, disclosure, appropriate access<br />
to <strong>and</strong> use of during <strong>and</strong> post-employment<br />
j Government audits <strong>and</strong> recapture of funds from employed<br />
physicians<br />
j Intellectual property<br />
j Issues surrounding moonlighting <strong>and</strong> other outside<br />
employment opportunities<br />
j Meaningful use<br />
j Compensation structures<br />
j Offsetting compensation for funds owed<br />
j Malpractice claims, settlement <strong>and</strong> tail insurance <strong>and</strong> more<br />
D. Bundled Payments – Practicalities, Contractual <strong>and</strong><br />
Governance Issues<br />
Alice G. Gosfield<br />
j Defining terms: Bundles vs episodes vs. gainsharing, etc<br />
j What do we really know about bundled payment?<br />
Experiences to date<br />
j Principles of bundling: Triggering, breaking, ending<br />
j How bundles affect governance <strong>and</strong> contracting<br />
j Governance among participating providers: Avoiding food<br />
fights: sueprmajorities, adding, terminating participants<br />
j Dispute resolution<br />
E. I’ll Have What She’s Having… Harry Hospital Meets<br />
Sally Specialist<br />
Robert G. Homchick<br />
Cynthia Y. Reisz<br />
j Integration options <strong>and</strong> the factors driving how <strong>and</strong> to what<br />
degree hospitals <strong>and</strong> specialists are coming together<br />
j Use of hypotheticals to explore:<br />
– Professional Services Agreements in combination with<br />
Management Services Agreements<br />
– Innovative models facilitating Hospital or <strong>Physician</strong> Network<br />
participation in or ownership of traditional <strong>Physician</strong><br />
practices<br />
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