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Achieving settlement in the high-stakesand highly visible area of healthcareenforcement litigation is difficult for eventhe most experienced practitioner. Thisprogram will explore the critical variableseach party considers as they enter andcarry out settlement negotiations. Thediscussion will probe the factors whichcreate resistance or willingness to settleas well as the impact of ever-presentparallel proceedings including: therelator's share and employment claims,shareholder suits, personal injury masstort cases, potential debarmentproceedings, and potential individualliabilities.Our panelists, including a formerMagistrate Judge and Deputy GeneralCounsel of a medical device company, aveteran healthcare fraud prosecutor, andan accomplished defense litigator, willaddress: when the timing is right for settlement; evidentiary concerns, including issuessurrounding the sharing of evidence; damages, multipliers, disgorgementand other financial variables; the interplay of criminal and civilliabilities;the competing interests of entities andindividuals; and the role that parallel civil andadministrative proceedings play incomplicating or facilitating settlement.Item no. : AL11200294Format : CD-ROM (Win)Duration : 90 minutesCopyright : 2012Price : USD 150.00INDEPENDENCE AT HOME:A CMS MEDICAREDEMONSTRATIONREVIVING THE PHYSICIANHOUSE CALL PRACTICEMODELBy James PylesMedicare fee-for-service beneficiaries withmultiple chronic illnesses comprise lessthan 10% of the Medicare beneficiarypopulation but account for more than 60%of Medicare's costs. In an effort to containthese costs, the Affordable Care Actdirected CMS to conduct theIndependence at Home (IAH)Demonstration to test home-basedprimary care for these high-need Medicarebeneficiaries.Home-based primary care is designed toprovide comprehensive, coordinated,continuous, and accessible care tohigh-need patients and to coordinatehealth care across all treatment settings.Home-based primary care allows healthcare providers to spend more time withtheir patients, perform assessments in apatient's natural environment, and assumegreater accountability for all aspects of thepatient's care. This focus on timely andappropriate care is designed to improveoverall quality of care and quality of life forpatients served, while lowering health carecosts by forestalling the need for care ininstitutional settings.This panel will discuss how the IAHDemonstration will be implemented as wellas the legal and practical challenges facedby physician house call practices inproviding health care services in keepingwith IAH's goals of increasing quality ofcare while reducing cost.Item no. : HJ11200296Format : CD-ROM (Win)Duration : 90 minutesCopyright : 2012Price : USD 150.00LONG-TERM CAREFACILITIES: RECENTTRENDS IN ACQUISITIONAND FINANCEMany skilled nursing facilities are facing adual challenge of recently enactedMedicaid cuts and an 11% announcedreduction in Medicare reimbursement.Further Medicare cuts also may be on thehorizon as a result of the recent legislationto increase the federal debt limit. As aresult of these and other governmentalinitiatives, including an increased trendtowards home and community-basedservices, some nursing facilities willundoubtedly be sold, leased, or otherwisetransferred as the market continues toconsolidate.This session will provide a timely overviewof recent trends in the acquisition andfinancing of skilled nursing facilities andassisted living facilities of all types,including publicly-traded andprivately-held, for-profit and non-profit,and urban and rural.Our panelists will discuss: New developments in buying andselling long-term care facilities; New developments in financing theacquisition of long-term care facilities; Licensure and certificate of needissues; Medicare and Medicaid certificationand enrollment issues; Transparency requirements underHealthcare Reform; Successor liability issues.Item no. : PP11200519Format : CD-ROM (Win)Duration : 90 minutesCopyright : 2011Price : USD 150.00MAYO V. PROMETHEUS:THE SUPREME COURT'SNEW METHODOLOGY FORFANALYZING PATENTELIGIBILITYBy Robert A. Armitage, Denise W.This program, inspired by a currentLANDSLIDE article, will cover the U.S.Supreme Courts recent decision in MayoCollaborative Services v. PrometheusLaboratories, Inc. regarding the eligibilityof inventions directed to personalizedmedicine and more generally to diagnosticmethods for treating disease. Leadingpractitioners will explain the SupremeCourts newly articulated methodology foranalyzing patent eligibility of inventionsimplicating laws of nature and how thatmethodology might be applied to a broadswath of inventions.The Chair of the ABAs IntellectualProperty Law Section and Eli Lilly andCompanys Senior Vice President andGeneral Counsel, Robert A. Armitage, willaddress the risk of collateral damagecaused by the Supreme Courts decisionand offer his expert opinion on how theSupreme Court might have analyzed theissues differently so as to avoid thepotential for such adverseconsequences. Similarly, Denise W.DeFranco, a Partner at Finnegan,Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner,LLP and counsel to the Petitioner in Bilskiv. Kappos, will address the SupremeCourts analysis in Mayo and potentiallegislative solutions to overcome theeffects of the decision. Finally, Thomas W.Krauss, Special Counsel for IntellectualProperty Litigation of the U.S. Patent &Trademark Office and one of itspreeminent experts on the law of patenteligibility under section 101, will discussthe U.S. Patent & Trademark Officesresponse to the decision and offerpractical tips and strategies for avoidingpatent eligibility issues in the wake of theMayo decision.Item no. : VG11200313Format : CD-ROM (Win)Duration : 60 minutesCopyright : 2012Price : USD 125.00MEDICINE 101 FORJUDGES AND ATTORNEYS:ORTHOPEDICS-BACK,NECK & KNEESBy Hon. Bruce T. Cooper, Hon. Mary KellyThis program will provide an introductionto orthopedics focusing upon basicconcepts and terminology essential to theevaluation of medical evidence, bothdocumentary and testimonial, pertaining toconditions and injuries affecting the back,neck and knees.Item no. : NW11200526Format : CD-ROM (Win)Duration : 90 minutesCopyright : 2012Price : USD 150.00DeFranco, Thomas W. 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