The new compliance focus on executive compensation, as announced by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on March 3, 2023, has significant implications for how healthcare organizations address both corporate compliance and...more
4/3/2023
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Clawbacks ,
Compliance Commitees ,
Corporate Executives ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Executive Compensation ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Incentive Compensation ,
Oversight Duties ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Webinars
With COVID-19 applying financial pressures on hospitals and health systems of all sizes and geographic reach, the road to recovery presents a variety of challenges. However, the need to restructure and address financial and...more
5/26/2020
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Business Development ,
Business Opportunities ,
Business Strategies ,
Capital Markets ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Debt Restructuring ,
Economic Downturn ,
Financial Distress ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Insolvency ,
Physicians ,
Webinars
The extraordinary consequences of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis calls healthcare boards to exercise greater engagement with both the affairs of the company and the portfolio of the executive team. Click to access 10 key...more
Healthcare providers facing emergency requests from government agencies in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis — including critical issues such as transfers of COVID-19 patients, opening closed facilities and...more
4/1/2020
/ Best Practices ,
Business Continuity Plans ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Crisis Management ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Health and Safety ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Public Health ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Workplace Safety
Given evolving Delaware law, understanding the difference between “risk oversight” and “risk management” is an increasingly important board task.
In the Marchand and Clovis decisions, the Delaware courts sent an important...more
1/24/2020
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Audits ,
Best Practices ,
Board of Directors ,
Breach of Duty ,
Bylaws ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Compliance ,
Congressional Committees ,
Corporate Culture ,
Corporate Governance ,
Debt Collection ,
Hospitals ,
Incentives ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
Leadership ,
MLB ,
NYSE ,
Oversight Duties ,
Private Foundations ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Strategic Planning ,
Surveys ,
Tax Exempt Entities
AHA GOVERNANCE SURVEY -
The governance and board development committee will benefit from an overview of the American Hospital Association (AHA) 2019 National Heath Care Governance Survey Report, which describes a...more
6/28/2019
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Business Disruption ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Chief Legal Officers ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Restructuring ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Hospitals ,
Interlocking Directorate ,
Internal Investigations ,
Physician-Owned Hospitals
Strategy and the Decline—or Rise—of the Inpatient Hospital -
A series of new media reports and consultant commentary on industry evolution highlight the increasing pressure on health system boards to fully engage in...more
3/12/2018
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BlackRock ,
CEOs ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Governance ,
Directors ,
Hospitals ,
Individual Accountability ,
Mergers ,
Tax Exemptions
Tax-exempt organizations—especially hospitals and health systems—face a new tax reality now that both houses of Congress have voted to pass the final tax reform bill....more
Unprecedented 2018 Board Challenges -
The health system board should be prepared to address an extraordinary number of significant, enterprise-level challenges that are expected to arise in 2018. These challenges will...more
12/12/2017
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Business Disruption ,
Corporate Governance ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Internal Investigations ,
IRS ,
Tax Exempt Entities ,
Tax Reform
As the hospital consolidation market continues to grow, most consolidation transactions involve nonprofit health systems. Nonprofit boards of directors should prepare well in advance to evaluate consolidation opportunities...more