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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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