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

Deadline to Register: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 

Please note the LOCATION CHANGE for the February Health Law CLE at Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. (Downtown Minneapolis). 

Lunch and registration will start at 11:30 a.m.  The CLE program will start at 12 noon. 

Any time a health care organization structures a contract involving physicians, it must be aware of the federal laws that are unique to the healthcare industry (e.g., the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, False Claims Act, etc.).  These laws affect any contract with physicians who are in a position to refer, including employment or service contracts, group compensation structures, joint ventures, leases for space or equipment, free or discounted items or services and virtually any other exchange of remuneration.

This session 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.

Areas Covered in the Session:
•    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.

Featured Speaker:

Joseph N. Wolfe | Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C.

CLE Credit:
1.0 Standard Credit | Event Code: 234241

Cost:
Health Law Section Member:  $15.00
MSBA Member but not a member of the Health Law Section:  $20.00
Non-MSBA Member:  $30.00
Law Student: Free
New Admittee (Attorney Admitted to the MN Bar after January 1, 2016): Free

Remote Participation:  
Remote attendance is available. Please indicate that you will attend remotely when registering. Instructions will be sent via e-mail on Thursday, February 16.

If you need reasonable accommodations to participate in this event, please notify Geen Mui via phone or email: gmui@mnbar.org.  Please provide notification at least 72 hours prior to the meeting to allow sufficient time to make arrangements for accommodations at this event. Thank you.