AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
Sponsored by The Stark Law: A User’s Guide to Achieving Compliance
presented on September 19, 2006
The Stark Law causes headaches every day for healthcare providers. Essentially, the law prohibits physicians from referring Medicare patients to certain providers—including hospitals, clinical laboratories, diagnostic imaging centers, and medical equipment suppliers—with which the physicians have a financial relationship. It also prohibits providers from billing for improperly referred patients. Sound confusing?
Here’s help to eliminate some of that stress and confusion. Listen to The Stark Law: Successful strategies to prevent litigation. Our speakers help educate you on the government’s current Stark enforcement trends and discuss how to avoid key Stark trouble spots.
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Note: This is an intermediate-level program. Participants should have a general knowledge of the Stark Law.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA
- Government enforcement trends and examples
- Significant increased use of allegations of Stark violations
- Stark litigation issues
- Federal government litigation
- Government doesn’t have to prove intent
- Judges still try to discern intent
- Private party litigation
- Government is not always the adversary
- Traps and pitfalls involved in litigation of issues
- Trouble Spots
- Physician recruitment
- In-office ancillary services exception
- New heath information systems exception
- Indirect compensation and investment exceptions
- Incidental gifts and benefits
- Fair market value/reasonableness documentation
- “Technical” violations
- Contract lapsed
- Lost agreement (one party signed, one party didn’t)
- Exceeding $322 per year in physician gifts and benefits
A question and answer session follows the presentation.
At the conclusion of the program you will understand
- the government’s current Stark enforcement trends and strategies to avoid being caught in the government’s web
- the risks involved in both government and private Stark litigation
- how to avoid key Stark trouble spots pertaining to physician recruitment, indirect compensation, and other common violations.
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Bob Wade, Esq., is a partner with Baker & Daniels, LLP of South Bend, IN. He concentrates his practice in representing healthcare including large health systems, hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, physician groups, physicians and other medical providers with respect to the Stark Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).
Steven Jackson, Esq., is a partner with Baker & Daniels, LLP of Fort Wayne, IN. He concentrates his practice in the representing healthcare providers in False Claims Act litigation, fraud and abuse counseling, peer review proceedings, institutional review boards, and ethics committees. He also serves as principal trial counsel in employment discrimination and civil litigation matters in state and federal courts across the nation.
BONUS MATERIAL INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIAL PACKET!
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you also receive a slide presentation of the program materials.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Compliance officers, hospital auditors, physicians, legal counsel, CEOs, COOs, and CFOs in hospitals and large physician groups.
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